Quotes About Puzzling

There are countless artists whose shoes I am not worthy to polish - whose prints would not pay the printer. The question of judgment is a puzzling one.

Nothing really known, can continue to be acutely fascinating.

DIES MIES JESCHET BOENE DOESEF DOUVEMA ENITEMAUS".

its face had taken on an expression which no one ever saw in a woodchuck before.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pese a todo, la vida y la muerte son estados misteriosos, y sabemos poco de los resortes de uno y otro.

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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.

The whole conception of 'sin' is one which I find very puzzling, doubtless owing to my sinful nature.

What's he like?" she asked. "Indescribable," Stone replied.

cherry merry, hammerish, haunted with evil spirits, moon-ey'd, nimptopsical, and double-tongu'd.

Of course it was all just whistling in the dark, but sometimes she would conclude by saying that despite their clumsy grief and all the lost and puzzling years that still lay ahead of them, the earth was no less beautiful.

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Meanwhile, countries that had actually undergone the dreamed-of socialist revolution— North Korea, Cuba, and East Germany, for example—suffered from sputtering economies and totalitarian regimes. To people who had embraced so-called Marxist dogma during their entire careers, the juxtaposition of these two realities was both puzzling and disturbing.

This uneasiness comes over me from time to time, and I feel as if I've somehow been pieced together from two different puzzles.

Why my wife owned a shotgun, I had no idea. Or ski masks. Neither of us had ever skied. But she didn't explain and I didn't ask. Married life is weird, I felt.

It is very difficult to logically explain the illogical.

Traditions are always puzzling to those who don't share them. I'm Jewish, so the idea of a 'perfect family Christmas' is foreign to me.

I want my life to be mystifying' she declared, although she didn't know what she meant

does not sound 'quite simple' to me," I said. "It sounds inordinately complicated.

It only seems complicated because it is strange,' Corum said. 'Your world would doubtless seem incomprehensible to me of I were suddenly flung into it.

From a selection of his other works, we might think him variously courtly, cerebral, metaphysical, melancholic, Machiavellian, neurotic, lighthearted, loving, and much more. Shakespeare was of course all these things—as a writer. We hardly know what he was as a person.

This is something that has been puzzling me for years. Women will stand there watching their items being rung up, and then when the till lady says, 'That's £4.20, love,' or whatever, they suddenly look as if they've never done this sort of thing before. They go 'Oh!' and start rooting in a flustered fashion in their handbag for their purse or chequebook, as if no-one had told them that this might happen.

The result is a language that is wonderfully fluid and accommodating, but also complex, undirected and often puzzling—in a word, troublesome.