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Quotes About Puzzled

Some of the outlaws understand this communications gap, but most are puzzled and insulted to hear that "normal people" consider them horrible.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
But in a society with no central motivation, so far adrift and puzzled with itself that its President‡ feels called upon to appoint a Committee on National Goals, a sense of alienation is likely to be very popular—especially among people young enough to shrug off the guilt they're supposed to feel for deviating from a goal or purpose they never understood in the first place.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
You said your cousin was a necromancer. You know how the natural necromancers operate? They twisted the head off your favorite doll, stuffed a dead bird into it, and made it walk around. And then they were puzzled why you got upset.
~ Ilona Andrews
I am very puzzled by the fact that young people are getting infected again. They don't take precautions despite an enormous amount of information. It's like riding a race car at 200 kilometers an hour. Some people like the risk.
~ Luc Montagnier
A faint frown wrinkled his broad forehead.
~ Steven Erikson
Then we're all restless, Withal, because at the very heart, none of us know where we came from. Or where we're going.
~ Steven Erikson
We hadn't taken him prisoner; he'd just followed us out, trailing after us with a puzzled look, like a man who knew he wasn't dreaming, but felt he should have been.
~ Naomi Novik
Aubrey looked a little—what? I couldn't identify it.
~ Charlaine Harris
Satan is never better pleased, than when he sees Christians puzzled and perplexed about those things in religion, which are of no great consequence or importance.
~ Thomas Brooks
Thus, neither having the clue to the other's secret, they were respectively puzzled at what each revealed, and awaited new knowledge of each other's character and moods without attempting to pry into each other's history.
~ Thomas Hardy
What I needed was a big fat clue. A mysterious note laying it all out. A deity popping out of thin air and explaining it to me. Hell, I'd settle for an annoying old lady with a knack for solving mysteries. I actually stopped and waited for a second to see if a clue would fall out of the sky and land at my feet. The Universe declined to oblige.
~ Ilona Andrews
What was Yolande doing with Mayor Horwoode?" he asked, puzzled by the curious chain of informants who had provided Matilde with the piece of gossip in the first place. Edith and her husband exchanged an amused glance. "Well, she is a prostitute, Matt," said Stanmore dryly. "So, I expect they were talking about needlework.
~ Susanna Gregory
[Christians] practiced moderation and chastity in marriage, for example, and Galen was puzzled at how they were able to do so. His comments are a kind of back-handed compliment, I suppose.
~ Larry Hurtado
valley of the clueless
~ Niall Ferguson
He felt bewildered, as if he inhabited someone else's life.
~ Chris Offutt
A thorn ripped a gash that he didn't feel. His body was far away from his mind. He leaned back and stared at a patch of sky through the intertwining limbs. Nothing made sense.
~ Chris Offutt
And if we don't have Energy runes, we'll have to get our energy the old-fashioned way." Mark looked puzzled. "Drugs?" "Chocolate," Emma said. "I brought chocolate. Mark, where do you even come up with these things?" Mark smiled crookedly, shrugging one shoulder. "Faerie humor?
~ Cassandra Clare
Indeed, one turns over Miss Dickinson's book with a puzzled feeling that there was poetry in her subconscious, but that it never became explicit.
~ Andrew Lang, 1890
I don't always believe in God, but, I believe something is amiss.
~ Angel M.B. Chadwick
I have no clue how I got COVID. I am surprised.
~ Randhir Kapoor
I have no idea what's next. I simply don't have a clue.
~ Lance Burton
I'm good at figuring out how things work, but I don't know how this happened.
~ Nora Roberts
his lazy eye drifting around the room like a child looking for the bathroom.
~ Chuck Klosterman
I have no idea where they're go­ing with this.
~ Chuck Palahniuk