#fusion

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again. ↗

— Anne Frank

#again #build #confusion #death #foundation

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion. ↗

— Robert Frost

#begins #clarification #confusion #cults #delight

The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#call #confusion #dignity #even #give

I feel very comfortable with the way I look, and I feel very comfortable with the kind of confusion that it creates in people's minds. ↗

— Brian Molko

#confusion #creates #feel #i #i feel

I don't know how many sacred cows there are today. I think there's a little confusion between humor and gross passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable. ↗

— Bob Newhart

#confusion #cows #gross #how #humor

History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution. ↗

— Gary Ross

#anarchy #began #confusion #down #enjoy

I personally have a background of many days on end of confusion, understimulation, overstimulation, and uncomfortableness with the world around me. ↗

— Mary Lynn Rajskub

#background #confusion #days #end #i

The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes. ↗

— James Agee

#confusion #consume #examine #mere #my own

Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word. ↗

— Willard Van Orman Quine

#object #original #original sin #sign #sin

In recurring episodes over the next couple of decades, the minority view gradually won. A profusion of factors differentiates each case from the others, including naked partisanship on both sides, but the trend has been clear. ↗

— Michael Kinsley

#both #both sides #case #clear #couple