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Quotes About Puzzle

Nothing is more complex than simplification; what art takes from enigma it more than replenishes in the instantiation of itself, in the labyrinthine puzzle it plants in history. The intensification of enigma. The luxuriantly problematic loam of existence is built out of the sedimented aeons of residues deposited by the will to power, the impulse to create.
~ Unknown
She mused on the words and beads for days but couldn't see the pattern. There was a piece missing.
~ Nicola Griffith
She mused on the words and beads for days but couldn't see the pattern.
~ Nicola Griffith
There was something about alliances she could not quite see, but the more she thought about it the less clear it became, so she set it aside for later.
~ Nicola Griffith
Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
~ Niels Bohr
The lives we live, he thinks, are filled with holes.
~ Noah Hawley
Why had a gold hoop earring, one of a pair, tuned up on the kitchen floor when she was
~ Unknown
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Philo Vance / Needs a kick in the pance.
~ Ogden Nash
Theophilus Thistle, the thistle-sifter, sifted a sieve of unsifted thistles. If Theophilus Thistle, the thistle-sifter, sifted a sieve of unsifted thistles, where is the sieve of unsifted thistles Theophilus Thistle, the thistle sifter, sifted?
~ Old Farmer's Almanac
The Most Difficult Tongue Twister EXPERTS AGREE. –courtesy of F. J., St. Louis, Missouri Theophilus Thistle, the thistle-sifter, sifted a sieve of unsifted thistles. If Theophilus Thistle, the thistle-sifter, sifted a sieve of unsifted thistles, where is the sieve of unsifted thistles Theophilus Thistle, the thistle sifter, sifted?
~ Old Farmer's Almanac
Nothing is innocent, and nothing is insignificant, it's all a big endless puzzle.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
~ Omar Khayyam
A simple statement of Jesus is always a puzzle to us because we will not be simple. How can we maintain the simplicity of Jesus so that we may understand Him? By receiving His Spirit, recognizing and relying on Him, and obeying Him as He brings us the truth of His Word, life will become amazingly simple.
~ Oswald Chambers
A simple statement of Jesus is always a puzzle to us if we are not simple. How are we going to be simple with the simplicity of Jesus? By receiving His Spirit, recognising and relying on Him, obeying Him as He brings the word of God, and life will become amazingly simple.
~ Oswald Chambers
We are up in the attic doing a jigsaw puzzle, which may be the single fastest way one OCD person reveals herself to another.
~ Pam Houston
Smith's eyes traced
~ Unknown
We cannot solve mysteries - we can only enter into them; and then it is we who are solved or dissolved - transformed in such a way that we see the "problem" quite differently
~ Unknown
The more obscure and mysterious things remained, the more interested I became in them. I even looked for mystery where there was none.
~ Patrick Modiano
Seven things has Lady Lackless Keeps them underneath her black dress One a ring that's not for wearing One a sharp word, not for swearing Right beside her husband's candle There's a door without a handle In a box, no lid or locks Lackless keeps her husband's rocks There's a secret she's been keeping She's been dreaming and not sleeping On a road, that's not for traveling Lackless likes her riddle raveling.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
There is nothing quite so delightfully mysterious as a secret in your own backyard.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
What the hell do you call that?" I asked him quietly. "Firefog?" "We could," he responded. "Kilvin would probably call it an atmospherically enhanced incendiary action.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
She tried to slide it back to proper true, but couldn't see the shape of it and couldn't tell the way of things and if it was a place where it was right.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
I loved the discovery chemistry offered. I loved the thrill of experiment, the challenge of trial and retrial. I loved the puzzle of it. I also will admit a somewhat foolish fondness toward the apparatus involved. The bottles and tubes. The acids and salts. The mercury and flame. There is something primal in chemistry, something that defies explication. Either you feel it or you don't.
~ Patrick Rothfuss