#muddle

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#get #got #had #intellectual #into

Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it. ↗

— Shel Silverstein

#explain #itself #muddle #never #never explain

When a performance isn't working, it's usually because the actor is trying to do something and they're not able to express their idea very well. It's a muddled expression. ↗

— Casey Affleck

#actor #because #express #expression #idea

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. ↗

— Emmet Fox

#difference #dissolve #great #hopeless #how

We are muddled into war. ↗

— David Lloyd George

#muddled #war

Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee. ↗

— Anthony Sampson

#committee #extra #muddle #personality #unknown

I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really - it's so boring. ↗

— Tom Baker

#been #boring #compared #described #disappointment

Yet in all those cases I finally steeled myself to seize the opportunity, and find a way to muddle through and eventually conclude that I had, in fact, chosen the right path, as risky as it seemed at the time. ↗

— Vinton Cerf

#chosen #conclude #eventually #fact #finally

Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

#before #believer #day #dependent #even

If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled. ↗

— Ramakrishna

#desire #devotional #discussions #energy #faith