Befuddling Quotes & Sayings

Culturally appropriate evangelism answers the actual questions being asked by a given culture rather than those questions the church believes the culture should ask. — Ed Stetzer

Scramble Books were written prior to the personal computer. For the most part they were used to supplement text books as a teaching and testing tool. I wrote a scramble book to help students understand the "Pythagorean theorem or Law of Pythagoras." What made these books different from text books was that the answers to questions would lead you to different pages, which in turn would confirm that either your answer was right or it would direct you to another page explaining how to arrive at the correct answer. — Hank Bracker

Hope is the great deceiver. Hope is the piper who leads us sleepy to our slaughter. — Brent Weeks

When a role seems fun it's easy to play. It kind of comes organically. — Zach Galifianakis

The current moguls understand that true media power lies not in firing up our outrage, as Hearst did, but in befuddling it or tranquilizing it with new toys. The idea is to render us passive so that they can exercise their power to sell us a bunch of stuff we mostly don't need and mostly don't want. — Richard Schickel

It ought to be the employer's ambition as leader to pay than any similar line of business, and it ought to be the workman's ambition to make it possible — Henry Ford

If people would stop objectifying abstractions (which they probably never will), or if they would stop objectifying the abstractions they make consciously (which they might learn to do), at least half the pseudo-questions befuddling the world today - as they have befuddled it since time immemorial - would vanish. And that would be a very, very great gain. — Cassius Jackson Keyser

Sex and gender are such befuddling mysteries even for those of us who are in the mainstream that you'd think we'd be wary of being judgmental. Yet much of society clings to a view that gender is completely binary, when, in fact, there's overwhelming evidence of a continuum. — Nicholas Kristof

There is enough love and good will in our movement to give energy to our struggle and still have plenty left over to break down and change the climate of hate and fear around us. — Cesar Chavez