Quotes About Perplexity

Abigail, meanwhile, brooded in the backseat. Finally she announced, "None of this makes sense.

eso era lo que a mí me caía gordo de la vida carnal, no sé si te pasó, que a veces se acomodaba de tal manera que no entendías ni madres, a poco no

Everything exists; nothing exists. Either formula affords a like serenity. The man of anxiety, to his misfortune, remains between them, trembling and perplexed, forever at the mercy of a nuance, incapable of gaining a foothold in the security of being or in the absence of being.

Conversation is fruitful only between minds given to consolidating their perplexities.

The mind that puts everything in question reaches, after a thousand interrogations, an almost total inertia, a situation which the inert, in fact, knows from the start, by instinct. For what is inertia but a congenital perplexity?

We dismiss the skeptic, we speak of an "automatism of doubt," while we never say of a believer that he has fallen into an "automatism of faith." Yet faith is much more mechanical than doubt, which has the excuse of proceeding from surprise to surprise — inside perplexity, it is true.

I am stirred, even overwhelmed each time I happen upon an innocent person. Where does he come from? What is he after? Doesn't such an apparition herald some disaster? It is a very special disturbance we suffer in the presence of someone there is no way of calling our kind.

Narrano le vecchie istorie che quando Twashtri creò il mondo, rimase molto perplesso nel creare la donna e dovette pensare a lungo, prima di scegliere gli elementi necessari per formarla. (Le due tigri)

The number of things which you do not understand increases day by day.

Why, Sandilands? Why?

The reality of a question is inevitably more complicated than we would like to suppose.

There is a Jewish joke concerning the man who says of an enemy: Why does he hate me so? I never did him any good.

The formal education that I received made little sense to me.

Sometimes I just get attention, and I really don't know how it happens.

What's overwhelmingly clear is 'Havana' didn't work for people, but why it didn't work I don't feel I can put my finger on in a way I can learn from.

At this stage of the game, I am not sure what the hell is going to happen.

The only question a girl can ask herself when their husband chooses to see '27 Dresses' is this: What on earth has he done?

Hillary Clinton wrote a book. She got paid. I don't understand why I can't.

I awoke one morning with the usual perplexity of mind which accompanies the return of consciousness.

What is the matter with your master? George asked Dawtie as they bounced along toward Potlurg. God knows, sir. What is the use of telling me that? I want you to tell me what YOU know. I don't know anything, sir.

Mrs Oldcastle was silent—why, I could not tell

Had Job been Calvinist or Lutheran, the book of Job would have been very different. His perplexity would then have been—how God being just, could require of a man more than he could do, and punish him as if his sin were that of a perfect being who chose to do the evil of which he knew all the enormity.

I understood HOW: I do not understand WHY.

NASIL'?n? anl?yorum: NEDEN'ini anlam?yorum.