Quotes About Riddle

The mystery of death, the riddle of how you could speak to someone and see them every day and then never again, was so impossible to fathom that of course we kept trying to figure it out, even when we were unconscious.

Hayward Christian Beach was heard to inquire; "How many knuckles appear on a 'knucklehead'?

Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don't know how to read.

A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.

Some mysteries are meant to stay that way.

Here's a riddle: When is a croquet mallet like a billy club? I'll tell you: Whenever you want it to be!

Yet the failure to solve the riddle of I.S.I. and to stop its covert interference in Afghanistan became, ultimately, the greatest strategic failure of the American war. —

I had no idea how to square that particular circle.

Killers can seem smart when you can't figure out who they are.

the whole mystery

People love a good mystery; I understand that.

There is a method in his madness

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

Subaltern Meliton Gubthorpe Digglethwaite?

Out yonder there was this huge world, which exists independently of us human beings and which stands before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partially accessible to our inspection and thinking. The contemplation of this world beckoned like a liberation Ã¢â'¬Â¦ The road to this paradise was not so comfortable and alluring as the road to the religious paradise; but it has proved itself as trustworthy, and I have never regretted having chosen it.

Richard clenched the strip in his fist. "It's some kind of riddle. I hate riddles.

She wrapped herself up in an enigma; there was no other way to keep warm.

She wrapper herself in an enigma, there was no other way to keep warm.

For myself, I am interested in science and in philosophy only because I want to learn something about the riddle of the world in which we live, and the riddle of man's knowledge of that world. And I believe that only a revival of interest in these riddles can save the sciences and philosophy from an obscurantist faith in the expert's special skill and in his personal knowledge and authority.

Animals! the object of insatiable interest, examples of the riddle of life, created, as it were, to reveal the human being to man himself, displaying his richness and complexity in a thousand kaleidoscopic possibilities, each of them brought to some curious end, to some characteristic exuberance.

And this is the strangest of all paradoxes of the human adventure; we live inside all experience, but we are permitted to bear witness only to the outside. Such is the riddle of life and the story of the passing of our days.

He put down the receiver and looked vaguely at the paper in his hand. It was a rough piece of white wrapping paper. Scrawled in pencil in ragged block letters were the words: HE DISAGREED WITH SOMETHING THAT ATE HIM And underneath in brackets: (P.S. WE HAVE PLENTY MORE JOKES AS GOOD AS THIS)

I'm a natural puzzle solver.

I'm very good at solving mysteries.