#fused

Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions. ↗

— Felix Klein

#confused #countless #curve #enough #everyone

Arizona did not make illegal, illegal. It is a crime to enter or remain in the U.S. in violation of federal law. States have had inherent authority to enforce immigration laws when the federal government has failed or refused to do so. ↗

— Russell Pearce

#authority #crime #did #enforce #enter

I have always respected everyone's religion. As I say, there is only one God and a lot of confused people. ↗

— Hazel Scott

#confused #everyone #god #i #lot

In our time mass or collective production has entered our economics, our politics, even our religion, so that some nations have substituted the idea collective for the idea God. This in my time is the danger. There is great tension in the world, tension toward a breaking point, and men are unhappy and confused. At such a time it seems natural and good to me to ask myself these questions. What do I believe in? What must I fight for and what must I fight against? ↗

— John Steinbeck

#fight #god #unhappy #men

I just want to be someone, to mean something to anyone… ↗

— Charlotte Eriksson

#confused #empty-roads-broken-bottles #finding-yourself #lost #lyrics

What have I done to her?" Gabriel muttered to himself as he crossed the room to crank open a window. Cool air washed over his skin. "What the devil did she do to me? ↗

— Olivia Parker

#confused #historical-romance #infatuation #romance #self-talk

O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself. ↗

— Louis Aragon

#abstract #already #apparent #become #dreams

When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused. ↗

— Bashar al-Assad

#differed #good #interests #matched #mold

Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#avarice #beauty #bid #both #disinterested

I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But when I actually write about myself, I get very confused. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#actually #autobiographical #confused #get #i