The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.
James A. Michener

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

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

There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original.
Joseph Haydn

To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.
E. O. Wilson

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
Yves Saint Laurent

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.
Edward R. Murrow

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

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.
Adlai E. Stevenson

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.
Frank Luntz

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