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Muddled thinking inevitably results in muddled living -- Elisabeth Elliot
Muddled syntax is the outward and audible sign of confused minds, and the misuse of grammar the result of illogical thinking. -- Quentin Crisp
We are muddled into war. -- David Lloyd George
Apart from a small minority, teenage boys fall into three distinct categories: macho, metro, or just plain muddled. -- Alexandra Adornetto
Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up. -- Dag Hammarskjold
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
Good intentions often get muddled with very complex execution. The last time the government tried to make taxes easier, it created a 1040 EZ form with a 52-page help booklet. -- Brad D. Smith
The progress of science is much more muddled than is depicted in most history books. This is especially true of theoretical physics, partly because history is written by the victorious. -- David Gross
Being a developmental psychologist didn't make me any better at dealing with my own children, no. I muddled through, and, believe me, fretted and worried with the best of them. -- Alison Gopnik
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
For a writer, children make life needlessly hard. I've muddled through a lot of things, but I have not muddled through my writing life. I work absolutely flat out, giving it my all. -- Richard Ford
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
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
The whole 1960s thing was a ten-year running party, which was lovely. It started at the end of the 1950s and sort of faded a bit when it became muddled with flower power. It was marvelous. -- Mary Quant
You can't stop what comes into a country, you can be influenced, but you can't stop it, you shouldn't, because it makes all the others interesting, we all get muddled up together, and produce something that belongs to everyone. -- Ninette de Valois
Persistence is a pretty important part of making it in this business, which, in retrospect, is the easy part. Maintaining a profile is the difficult part of the job. Somehow or another, I muddled through that system and somehow am around to still enjoy playing for people. -- Chris Squire
Perhaps it's time to stop analyzing Sarah Palin as a politician. Maybe, in her own muddled way, she is at last owning up to the fact that she has been miscast. You don't need politics anymore once you've discovered that the alchemy of celebrity has turned you into a 24-carat phenomenon. -- Tina Brown
It is this compulsion to look backwards at a time of crisis because one's got no idea of what lies ahead. There is a notion of security that somehow it must resemble the past. It's never going to. Just because we muddled through in the past doesn't mean we can automatically muddle through in the future. -- Antony Beevor
It's hard to actually take details from your personal life and apply them a scene because, as much as you can identify with a feeling, you just get muddled. As soon as you start bringing your own stuff in, it's like, 'No, that's not right.' You're playing a different person. You can relate, but you have to leave that stuff at the door. -- Kristen Stewart
Truth and dreams are always getting muddled, -- David Almond
Most people muddled through events and only in retrospect realized their significance. -- Kate Atkinson
Mathematics without natural history is sterile, but natural history without mathematics is muddled. -- John Maynard Smith
If your own mind is muddled, much more will the minds of your hearers be confused. -- Dale Carnegie
Strong currents drag many stones and bushes along with them, strong intellects many dense and muddled minds. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language. -- Marya Mannes
Maps were so much easier than words. Words had a way of getting muddled, or meaning two things at once. -- Lesley Howarth
...your memories will be muddled and uncataloged - past, present, and imagination all mixed together. The same thing happens in dreams. -- Dan Brown
Epistemology without contact with science becomes an empty scheme. Science without epistemology is-insofar as it is thinkable at all-primitive and muddled. -- Albert Einstein
It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
At 50, you probably get muddled? I'm the same, that's how I know? If you ever get lost, don't worry? Just change where you want to go -- John Walter Bratton
If the mind is illumined, there is clear blue sky in a dark room. If the thoughts are muddled, there are malevolent ghosts in broad daylight. -- Zicheng Hong
I alone have the mind of a fool, and am all muddled and vague. The people are so smart and bright. While I am just dull and confused. -- Laozi
I don't think all poems need to be written in conversational language - those are often great poems but there should also be poems of incoherent bewilderment and muddled mystery. -- Matthea Harvey
When the great innovation appears, it will almost certainly be in muddled, incomplete and confusing form. ... For any speculation which does not at first glance look crazy, there is no hope. -- Freeman Dyson
A design style is defined by a set of microdecisions. A clear style reflects a consistent set. A clear style may not be a good style; a muddled one never is. -- Fred Brooks
She was flushed and felt intoxicated with the sound of her own voice and the unaccustomed taste of candor. It muddled her like wine, or like a first breath of freedom. -- Kate Chopin
I'm a fantasy writer. I don't do SF. This is important to me. If you're not clear on what genre you're in, everything gets muddled, and it's hard to know which rules you're breaking. -- Lev Grossman
Most people, in committing a suicidal act, are just as muddled as when they do anything important under emotional stress. Carefully planned acts of suicide are as rare as carefully planned acts of homicide. -- Erwin Stengel
People who share a muddled, careless, or deceitful attitude towards gathering evidence often find themselves drawn to eachother's fantasies. If you believe one wrong or strange thing, you are more likely to believe another. -- Damian Thompson
It made me wonder if the reasons our lives seem so muddled is because we keep walking into scenes in which we, along with the people around us, have no clear idea what we want. -- Donald Miller
Physics is very muddled again at the moment; it is much too hard for me anyway, and I wish I were a movie comedian or something like that and had never heard anything about physics! -- Wolfgang Pauli
The papers are full of murders -- strange murders. It is all nonsense that there are as many brains as there are men; mankind has only one intellect, and it is beginning to get muddled. -- Leonid Andreyev
What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone? -- Winston Churchill

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