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Quotes About Perplexity

Who was this guy? she found herself asking. Looks like Paul Bunyan, runs a bar, has all these guns, and cleans and launders like Martha Stewart.
~ Robyn Carr
La confusión es muy grande y creo que proviene de las brumas que están en la cabeza del presidente
~ Roger Bartra
How vague these husbands are.
~ Ronald Firbank
You always admire what you really don't understand.
~ Roosevelt, Eleanor
Budgie lay slack-jawed on stained pillows, squinting in perplexity at the stack of plastic containers in one corner. It was like he'd been mildly puzzled to death.
~ Louise Erdrich
Honestly, what planet do these people live on? And why isn't it farther away?
~ Louise Rennison
They keep coming up new all the time - things to perplex you, you know. You settle one question and there's another right after. There are so many things to be thought over and decided when you're beginning to grow up. It keeps me busy all the time thinking them over and deciding what's right. It's a serious thing to grow up, isn't it, Marilla?
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
It is mortifying to refuse a man and then discover that his main feeling is bewilderment
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
It's not how the world is, but that it is, that is cause for astonishment.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Who was I? Was I, I?
~ Luigi Pirandello
Assim vai a vida humana: um nada basta para complicar tudo.
~ Machado de Assis
I stared at him; he seemed to relish my astonishment.
~ Machado de Assis
Nothing important is completely explicable.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Art thou not he? Art thou Montezuma?
~ Malcolm Gladwell
The origin of thinking is some perplexity, confusion or doubt.
~ John Dewey
Mi chiamo Davide Griffo e sono mortificato per avere alzato la voce, ma non capivo quello che il suo agente mi andava dicendo. È straniero?». Montalbano preferì sorvolare.
~ Andrea Camilleri
She had that frustrating dreamlike confusion of racking her brain for the answer then forgetting what the question was. There was a question, wasn't there?
~ Ann Brashares
Well, what do you think about my idea? Four open-mouthed stares answered me. My friends had become the Great American Gapers Association. GAGA.
~ Ann M. Martin
I am left with a feeling and I cannot tell if it's emptiness or fullness.
~ Samantha Schutz
I found our speech copious without order, and energetick without rules: wherever I turned my view, there was perplexity to be disentangled, and confusion to be regulated.
~ Samuel Johnson
There are just moments when you look up from any one place and realize, suddenly, you have no idea how you got there.
~ Sarah Dessen
there are some things in life a person just cant know
~ Sarah Weeks
What do women really want? They eat green salad and drink human blood.
~ Saul Bellow
My God! Who is this creature? It considers itself human.
~ Saul Bellow