Manipulation, fueled with good intent, can be a blessing. But when used wickedly, it is the beginning of a magician’s karmic calamity.

Do we have a hand mirror?’ I asked from the kitchen doorway.’Never use one,’ said Lester, examining the date on a carton of sour cream.’Naturally, you’re a male. What you see is what you’ve got,’...

Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.

The few moments of heaven were not worth the hell he put me through when he was done.

It always seems as though the definition of love will remain debatable by an opinionated world.

The wind blew my words away from you. So while I told you I love you, the phrase was carried in the opposite direction and landed 333 miles away in the ears of a confused...

A confused mind is one that is open to the possibility of change.

To be given permission to be confused — and remain confused — for as long as it takes would have been a huge gift.

…for each of us sees clarity only in those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own.

I still loved Marc desperately and couldn’t imagine life without him. Jace was…something else. Something I could feel but couldn’t articulate. Something I wanted, and hadn’t been able to resist in my grief-weakened state. He...

You live in a deranged age – more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Outside, he had a sudden feeling that at moments there was too much light for human eyes. It caused men to feel weak and befuddled.

There’s obviously a lot of confusion at the start of any major new program, but the real test will come in 9 or 10 months when seniors have made the selection of a plan and...

With great power often comes great confusion.

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.

Gin is a confusing drink. It’s the only liquid that’s both wet and dry.

A confused labyrinth of smoky starsentangles my hopes,which are nearly faded

Thoughts. Thoughts bombard my head, my brain. My psyche

Our great mistake in education is, as it seems to me, the worship of book-learning–the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind. The children in our elementary schools...

Then, slowly, my feet settled to the ground. Before I had taken six steps I sagged like a sail when the wind fades. As I walked back through the town, past sleeping houses and dark...

With all the confusion in the world these days, no matter how often I point the way, what good does it do? And if I know it does no good and still make myself do...

Sometimes you can’t figure out the truth because you’re asking people that are emotionally or socially invested in you to be brutally honest. Often family or friends will tell you what you want to hear,...

How dreadful…to be caught up in a game and have no idea of the rules.

Don’t make a bridge which divides you with everyone by your own assumptions …..”As distance always doesn’t ensure solutions

…’you have to ask yourself though, who are we to stop a war?’I sigh, wishing that the glittering pinpricks above us were truly stars. It was rare to see any due to the endless cloud...

I am not here to merely argue about the perplexities regarding theism or philosophy, but to be a light to the world and to reach out to those who long to be a part of...

a story always sounds clear enough at a distance, but the nearer you get to the scene of events the vaguer it becomes.

He seemed unaware of the messiness of the arrangement.

The delays and the confusion in the marketplace of rewritable DVDs are opening the way for CD-RW to get a foothold.

We often confuse what we wish for with what is.

This wicket is different from the ones we’ve had before on this tour. But there is no confusion in mind about this pitch. It will be a good pitch to bat on.

There is bound to be turbulence in the clouds of confusion before one can view the friendly skies, and an illuminated landing strip.

I was just stock in the middle, vague and undefined.

A simple solution to a problem could be as complex as a problem to a simple solution.

There is a lot of confusion right now, and this just makes it worse.

A utopian system, when established by men, is likely to be synonymous with a dystopian depression. The only way for perfect peace by man is absolute control of all wrongs. Bully-cultures find this: with each...

A conglomerate of complicated words, they confuse, condemn and cajole, created, he is sure, for the sole purpose of fuddling the listener, which in this case is regrettably him.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

People don’t expect too much from literature. They just want to know they’re not alone with being confused.

What was wrong with me? I had a decent life. I was healthy. I wasn’t starving or maimed by a land mine or orphaned. Yet somehow, it wasn’t enough. I had a hole in me,...

I squeezed my eyes shut and took several deep breaths, trying not to smell Jace in front of me, not to taste him on my lips. But it was useless. In that moment, Jace was...

People, unprotected by their roles, become isolated in beauty and intellect and illness and confusion.

You and I are the remains of an unfulfilled legacy, heirs to a kingdom of stolen identities and ragged confusion.

If you’re not confused, you’re not paying attention.

that I will start with feeding you proper and then proceed with more…pestiferous acts.”I smiled through the confusion. I’d have to look up that word later.

She felt trapped, but she didn’t have to. The world is wide open and ready, waiting for us to escape this bubble and join it.

Knowledge is power, as some say. But on some days it is just as much pain and confusion as it is power; and any wise man worth his salt as a wise man at least...

Here’s a list in no particular order: chaos, confusion, and disorganization.

Database archiving is gaining in popularity, but I think there is confusion in the terminology that has not helped to differentiate active archiving from simple data backup.

Sorry is the day, and full of lament, when the young have to guard themselves from being food for the old.I am moved to bewilderment, when I glance my eyes upon a society that kills...