Confuse Quotes

Words can sometimes be used to confuse, but it's up to the practitioners of the study of language to apply them for good and not for evil. It is just like fire; fire can heat your house or burn it down.

Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.

I was cut off from the world. There was no one to confuse or torment me, and I was forced to become original.

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Let me explain what I do here. I don't want to confuse you any more than absolutely necessary.

We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

It's very easy to confuse Sean Connery with James Bond. Sometimes in the entertainment industry, people believe the cake is more real than the baker.

It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you.

This week you will nominate the most experienced executive to seek the presidency in 60 years in Mitt Romney. He has no illusions about what makes America great, and he doesn't confuse the presidency with celebrity, or loftiness with leadership.

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.

We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.

No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural.

The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.

People confuse the subject of the joke with the target of the joke, and they're very rarely the same.

The umlaut isn't on my birth certificate. I had this book as a child called Chloe and Maude, and there was an umlaut on the e, and I said, I want that! It's a little flair. Just to confuse people even more.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

Never confuse motion with action.

I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.

It's a gamble you take, the risk of alienating an audience. But there's a theory - sometimes it's better to confuse them for five minutes than let them get ahead of you for 10 seconds.

One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.