Quotes About Conundrum

Something unknown is doing we don't know what.

Here's a pretty kettle of fish!

a mystery to make men mad.

I got a fancy reputation. During high school, every puzzle that was known to man must have come to me. Every damn, crazy conundrum that people had invented, I knew.

They speak of Jesus as having had no wife," Lavi told me. That was a conundrum I puzzled over for months. Was it because I was absent when he traveled about Galilee during his ministry? Was it because women were so often invisible? Did they believe making him celibate rendered him more spiritual? I found no answers, only the sting of being erased.

Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.

The tricky thing about mazes is that you don't know if you've chosen the right path until the very end. If it turns out you were wrong, it's usually too late to go back and start again. That's the problem with mazes.

Zugzwang. It's when you have no good moves. But you still have to move.

I love the mystery behind things.

Hobson's choice is sometimes taken to mean a dilemma or difficult decision, but in fact means no choice at all. It derives from a sixteenth-century Cambridge stable-keeper named Thomas Hobson, who hired out horses on a strict rotation. The customer was allowed to take the one nearest the stable door or none at all.

If you think it's simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.

this cryptic game of hide-and-seek is what makes it one of the greatest historical mysteries. So many of the symbols can be interpreted in so many different ways, there's always the possibility that all we're really looking at is a blank slate onto which anything can be read.

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

This is a case without a body. The body does not come into it at all.

Del sí al no, ¿cuántos quizá?

para pessoas como ela, o mistério começava exatamente com a explicação.

Inadecuado? - repitió Patrón-. ¿Como... dividir por cero, por ejemplo?

When is it too right but too wrong to be right?

There are always choices. But sometimes there are no good ones.

Women. They are a complete mystery.

the whole mystery

People love a good mystery; I understand that.

What has three heads, six arms, and half a brain? Three asked. One and Two answered in unison. Nate Sutter.

Subaltern Meliton Gubthorpe Digglethwaite?