Confused
A few books well chosen, and well made use of will be more profitable than a great confused Alexandrian library
Author: Thomas FullerTopics: Confused, Famous, Feelings, Library, Life, Meaningful, Profitable
Though our private desires are ever so confused, though our private requests are ever so broken, and though our private groanings are ever so hidden from men, yet God eyes them, records them, and puts them upon the file of heaven, and will one day crown them with glorious answers and returns
Author: Thomas BrooksTopics: Confused, Desire, Famous, God, Heaven, Life, Meaningful, Private
And you should not let yourself be confused in your solitude by the fact that there is something in you that wants to move out of it.
Author: Rainer Maria RilkeTopics: Confused, Fact, Solitude, Yourself
Love is watchful. Sleeping, it does not slumber. Wearied, it is not tired. Pressed, it is not straitened. Alarmed, it is not confused, but like a living flame, a burning torch, it forces its way upward and passes unharmed through every obstacle
Author: Thomas a KempisTopics: Confused, Famous, Feelings, Flame, Life, Meaningful, Straitened, Unharmed
My thoughts are crowded with death and it draws so oddly on the sexual that I am confused to be attracted by, in effect, my own annihilation
Author: Thom GunnTopics: Confused, Death, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Meaningful, Thoughts
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat
Author: Therese FowlerTopics: Confused, Defeat, Famous, Life, Meaningful, Single
I hate writing texts to girlfriends because you can’t really see emotions in texts. You can get confused on what she says
Author: Theophilus LondonTopics: Confused, Famous, Feelings, Meaningful
I have a problem when people say something’s real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I’ve always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words
Author: Tim BurtonTopics: Confused, Famous, Feelings, Kind, Life, Meaningful, Normal, Personal, Problem, Real, Understanding, Words
Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism
Author: Thomas SowellTopics: Confused, Famous, Feel, Feelings, Idealism, Important, Intelligent, Meaningful, Ridiculous, Virtually
The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling
Author: Thomas SowellTopics: Confused, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Positive, Problem, Read, Think
It is important that we should never lose sight of this distinction. We must not confuse the peoples with their governments..
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Confused, Distinction, Famous, Government, Important, Lose, Meaningful, People, Sight
The cat, which is a solitary beast, is single minded and goes its way alone, but, the dog, like his master, is confused in his mind.
Author: H. G. WellsTopics: Cat, Confused, Dog, Famous, Mind
Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in New York City, and my family was an inveterate reader of newspapers and I loved holding a paper in my hand. It was something sacred.
Author: H. G. BissingerTopics: Confused, Family, Famous, Grew Up, Love, New York, Newspapers, Readers
All human beings seek the happy life, but many confuse the means – for example, wealth and status – with that life itself. This misguided focus on the means to a good life makes people get further from the happy life. The really worthwhile things are the virtuous activities that make up the happy life, not the external means that may seem to produce it.
Author: EpictetusTopics: Activities, Confused, Example, Famous, Focus, Good Life, Happy, Human Beings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Misguided belief, People, Positive, Seek, Seems, Status, Virtuous, Wealth
When I have a lot of pain, I try to confuse my mind to forget about the pain and think about the distance.
Author: Eliud KipchogeTopics: Confused, Distance, Famous, Inspirational, Meaningful, Mind, Pain, People
Don’t be confused by my smile ‘Cause I ain’t ever been more for real
Author: Bruno MarsTopics: Confused, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Real Trick, Real-Life, Realistic, Really, Valuable, Valuable lesson
Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.
Author: Richard P. FeynmanTopics: Confused, Education, Famous, Idiot, Intelligence
And now, as a germination of planetary dimensions, comes the thinking layer which over its full extent develops and intertwines its fibres, not to confuse and neutralise them but to reinforce them in the living unity of a single tissue.
Author: Pierre Teilhard de ChardinTopics: Confused, Famous, Living, Meaningful, Reinforced, Thinking
Now that knowledge is taking the place of capital as the driving force in organizations worldwide, it is all too easy to confuse data with knowledge and information technology with information.
Author: Peter DruckerTopics: Confused, Famous, Information, Knowledge, Meaningful, Organizations
Haters are confused admirers who can’t understand why everybody else likes you.
Author: Paulo CoelhoTopics: Confused, Famous, Inspirational, Meaningful, Understand
Everyone’s Taking Control Of Me Seems That The World’s Got A Role For Me I’m So Confused Will You Show To Me You’ll Be There For Me And Care Enough To Bear Me
Author: Michael JacksonTopics: Confused, Famous, Meaningful, Role
May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.
Author: George CarlinTopics: Confused, Good Life, House, Problems, Protection, Protests
Don’t get a movie confused with real life. I’m a well-rounded human being like everyone else.
Author: Ice CubeTopics: Confused, Famous, Inspirational, Movies, Real-Life
When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn’t believe in.
Author: Lana Del ReyTopics: Child, Confused, End Up, Famous, Inspirational, Office, Overwhelming, Passion, Self-Discovery