Quotes About Perplexing

He frowned as he struggled to remember. It was like watching an elephant crochet.

The odd conjuncture of psychoanalysis with literature dramatizes the perplexing deconstructions and inversions that can occur as Theory, capital T, meets "primary" texts in classrooms.

Why the hell was she smiling like that?...Her mouth was blown so wide that the soft insides showed at the corners, like another grin was building in there. As if her laughter tumbled. Like joy was a living thing.

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What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question, How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near?

Elly's eyes were huge and her mouth was open and she was clutching her hands over her chest. Her mouth was moving but he couldn't hear what she was saying. She looked weirdly pale, even her clothes. "Elly?" She held out her hands. As she was about to touch him, her fingers became foggy tendrils. He could see right through her, as if she had turned to mist. "Elly?" he said. He reached out for her, but she was gone.

I don't even know what the word strange means anymore... that's really strange.

To refrigerate a clock was an extremely violent act, not one I could explain to anyone.

The truth was stranger than the official fiction.

I would have liked you better as a criminal or a terrorist than as a militant in the cause of happiness.

I guess my experience with some stuff is kind of abstract.

There was no possibility that the animal had leaped the intervening sixty feet to land in the river. The tracks just stopped abruptly.

Normally the blue orbs caused extreme stress in animals.

He would never understand women, he thought. They were life's great mystery.

One of the most perplexing political questions of the late 20th century is how new democracies should punish deposed dictators and their associates. Victims cry for justice, but leaders of new regimes must decide to what extent it is possible, moral or prudent to pursue evildoers of the past.

From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.

The men that women marry, And why they marry them, will always be A marvel and a mystery to the world.

Everyone begs everyone's pardon, but I've never seen a pardon. Is it near the spleen?" Bridget blinked, then gave her head a little shake to keep the odd thought from crawling into her ear.

This is the strangest life I've ever known.

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.

For me writing is so perplexing, because if we were playing ping pong and we weren't writing - twenty years later you'd be just so much better at ping pong and this confidence with ping pong.

He used to - when he was just a kitten - stand and stare up at us as if asking a question. We never understood what the question was. Maybe now he knows the answer.

Males are the most incomprehensible species.

You could know the science of a thing and still find the phenomenon mysterious and mystical, and feel small and vulnerable in the face of it.