I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often cynicism is confused with wisdom and my scorn is confused with a knowing which I don't have.

You should be careful what you wish for as the reasons for war get confused. One person can be very clear in their motives but others can have different agendas.

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.

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.

The Minutemen were seen as more of an art thing than Black Flag although I didn't see them that way. It confused people when we put out Saccharine Trust too.

It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.

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.

I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it.

There are so few women in general who aren't completely threatened and confused by other women's success. It's very disappointing.

I think people often confuse success with fame and stardom.

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

People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people not good people (goodness demands strength) who are taken advantage of.

Most of them are pretty down records pretty unhappy pretty confused. Which only reflects how people in general were feeling I mean really the sense that you get is society running down.

Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation the latter the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science.

Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'

If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers he will be confused and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.

I'm just confused as to where we lost that in America because it is everyone's God-given right to think the way they think and that's fine. That's why our ancestors came here to America to believe what they want pray how they want and follow a religion with whoever they want.