#fused

In these confused times, the role of classical music is at the very core of the struggle to reassert cultural and ethical values that have always characterized our country and for which we have traditionally been honored and respected outside our shores. ↗

— Lorin Maazel

#been #characterized #classical #classical music #confused

If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect. ↗

— Maimonides

#alike #apprehend #apprehension #been #body

The ancient Roman code belongs to a class of which almost every civilised nation in the world can show a sample, and which, so far as the Roman and Hellenic worlds were concerned, were largely diffused over them at epochs not widely distant from one another. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#ancient #another #belongs #civilised #class

The elements which are the most widely diffused have small atomic weights. ↗

— Dmitri Mendeleev

#diffused #elements #most #small #weights

I've said things and meant them, but I'm obviously a very confused person who has no idea how they feel about things. ↗

— Sienna Miller

#confused #feel #how #i #idea

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused. ↗

— Walter F. Mondale

#everything #going #hopelessly #sure #understand

But the good news was that my elder sister refused to get married straight away and I couldn't get married until she did so I had the licence to go off and dream. ↗

— Indra Nooyi

#did #dream #elder #get #get married

I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it. ↗

— Edward Norton

#acting #always #certain #confused #emotional

When it comes to the health of our families, Barack refused to listen to all those folks who told him to leave health reform for another day, another president. He didn't care whether it was the easy thing to do politically - that's not how he was raised - he cared that it was the right thing to do. ↗

— Michelle Obama

#another day #barack #care #cared #comes

House Republican leadership have refused to allow a clean minimum wage vote. Close to 15 million Americans will be affected if we did this. Do Republicans really expect a family to live on less than $11,000 a year? ↗

— Bill Pascrell

#allow #clean #close #did #expect