Quotes About Conundrum

Something very sinister happens to the people of a country when they begin to distrust their own reactions as deeply as they do here, and become as joyless as they have become. It is this individual uncertainty on the part of white American men and women, this inability to renew themselves at the fountain of their own lives, that makes the discussion, let alone elucidation, of any conundrum—that is, any reality—so supremely difficult.

There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.

There's a problem out of every solution and a solution out of every problem

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.

It was as if everyone was a Cipher. You could look for keys and clues, but you might never figure them out.

Actually, I was beginning to think that even I should be able to solve .153847 mysteries. It was the 38 part, I suspected, that would be the problem.

Mysteries are worth examining, even if they're too big to be understood.

L'énigme à elle seule vaut presque tout. Parfois le mystère est bien plus amusant que le reste.

I think everyone, all of us, are complicated people. We have jobs that require us to be a certain way. We all do. Unfortunately, our jobs overtake our personality, but that is the world. We live in a conundrum. You have to keep it together.

Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

Something unknown is doing we don't know what.

Sometimes hard problems don't have easy solutions.

For every human problem, there is a neat, simple solution and it is always wrong

It's so damn complex. If you ever think you have the solution to this, you're wrong and you're dangerous.

You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.

A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution.

When you get rid of the impossible, what's left is the only answer, no matter how improbable.

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The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world.

Deciding on the right thing to do in a situation is a bit like deciding on the right thing to wear to a party. It is easy to decide on what is wrong to wear to a party, such as deep-sea diving equipment or a pair of large pillows, but deciding what is right is much trickier.

Quagmires, remember?

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.

To blow and swallow at the same moment is not easy.

I love mysteries - just in an old school way.