Quotes About Perplexing

Trying to address a perplexing problem: the reason or reasons for the nuclear standoff of the Cold War. I couldn't understand how belief systems could be so important to people that they were willing to risk the destruction of the world to protect them.

reality itself become something random, inexplicable.

Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.

This story doesn't make any damn sense

The second may well be beyond human understanding.

Everything is bizarre, and everything has value. Or if not value, at least merits investigation.

For optimists, the most perplexing question is how one becomes a pessimist – if one is not born one. For the pessimist, the question is how each person, by virtue of being born, is not already a pessimist.

[A mathematician is a] scientist who can figure out anything except such simple things as squaring the circle and trisecting an angle.

Often, I hear my ideas are more incomprehensible than not.

The world is so strange that maybe it's perfectly logical.

In many ways, the happiness of having children falls into the kind of happiness that could be called fog happiness. Fog is elusive. Fog surrounds you and transforms the atmosphere, but when you try to examine it, it vanishes. Fog happiness is the kind of happiness you get from activities that, closely examined, don't really seem to bring much happiness at all—yet somehow they do.

Nothing really known, can continue to be acutely fascinating.

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

The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.

Absurd, irreducible; nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root].

Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true .

It was strange to hear a wolf sigh in clear annoyance and see it roll its eyes. No. It wasn't strange…it was weird.

a mystery to make men mad.

In the current environment, we find it very difficult to defend America, and so we keep our silence. Because, to be very frank with you, how can we defend America?

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

Some truths seemed insoluble, stones that couldn't be swallowed.

Some truths seemed insoluble, stones that couldn't be swallowed.

Women are so enigmatical – some in everything – all in matters of the heart. Don't they sometimes actually admire what is repulsive?...

Colín decidió en ese mismo momento que la mente femenina era uno de los órganos más extraños e incomprensibles que ningún hombre debería intentar entender