Quotes About Inscrutable

There's always something that you can't pin down with words. Words fall flat all the time — look at the word dust around you.

Y en cambio, los gatos se comportan como si no les importases lo más mínimo. También hay personas así, ¿sabes?, ariscas, que no se dejan querer. Idgie era así

Did you ever in your life,' he asked, 'mount a bicycle from the right?' 'I did not.' 'And why?' 'I do not know. I never thought about it.' He laughed at me indulgently. 'It is nearly an insoluble pancake,' he smiled, 'a conundrum of inscrutable potentialities, a snorter.

In poetry a certain faith in the impossible,…as in religion a like faith in the inscrutable, must have a place[;]

God cannot be judged by human standards of morality. But we have seen that human standards of morality are precisely what you use to establish God's goodness in the first place. And any God who could concern Himself with something as trivial as gay marriage, or the name by which He is addressed in prayer, is not as inscrutable as all that. There

Lee's face was a Spock-on-the-bridge-of-the-Enterprise blank.

However long you have a cat and however plainly he lays his life open before you, there is always something hidden, some name he goes by in a place you never heard of.

She was like a woman of Leonardo Da Vinci's, whom we love not so much for herself as for the things that she will not tell us.

S]he might yet reveal depths of strangeness, if not of meaning.

But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.

His thoughts were too vague to be described, but they comprehended mysterious elements.

Fate was sometimes inscrutable.

There was so much he really didn't understand about women, he thought. They were an eternal mystery. Did they actually like to cry?

The complete, the true Mrs Whatsit, Meg realized, was beyond human understanding. What she saw was only the game Mrs Whatsit was playing; it was an amusing and charming game, a game full of both laughter and comfort, but it was only the tiniest facet of all the things Mrs Whatsit could be.

Okay... That's still blind-making.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

I always feel as if describing how I feel and think about myself is too complicated—it's as if I can hear the whole conversation in advance, and I know all of the twists and turns it will take before they happen, so why bother? The effort just isn't worth it.

Is not a woman's heart unfathomable?

Computers certainly possess the ability to reason and the capacity for self-reference. And just because they do, their actions are intrinsically inscrutable. Consequently, as they become more powerful and perform a more varied set of tasks, computers exhibit an unpredictability approaching that of human beings. Indeed, by Averroës's standards, they possess the same degree of immortality as humans.

Morgan's face gave away nothing, smooth as a mirror.

Time to plant tears, says the almanac. The grandmother sings to the marvelous stove and the child draws another inscrutable house.

In one sentence, I'd describe myself as indescribable. But, I wouldn't end it with a period. I'd end it with three dots.

Time to plant tears, says the almanac. The grandmother sings to the marvelous stove and the child draws another inscrutable house.