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Quotes About Perplexing

I have known her less than twenty-four hours. And the longer I know her, the more she mystifies me. She is perhaps eighteen, almost four years younger than me, but she seems much older. The things she says are often cryptic, though I feel that the meaning would be clear to me if I were wiser than I am.
~ Dean Koontz
Aye, and it had a thing on top like a wee club, only wi' a knob to each end, and the club was tied to the box wi' a sort of black cord, curled up on itself like a piggie's tail. Jem saw it, and he reached out his hand, and said, 'I want to talk to Grandda.' And then I woke." He leaned his head back farther, so as to look up into my face. "Would ye ken what a thing like that might be, Sassenach? It was like nothing I've ever seen.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Economics is counterintuitive. It just is.
~ Edward Conard
It's perplexing that Victoria's reign is commonly thought of as prudish when the Queen herself took such pleasure in sex.
~ Daisy Goodwin
Readers of the book, paradoxically, will have a different kind of surprise in store for them: What many "Vertigo" aficionados will find perplexing are the systematic, businesslike, matter of fact circumstances under which this odd, obsessional, very un-matter-of-fact film was created.
~ Unknown
There is, incidentally, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person.
~ Unknown
It was like she just disappeared," I said. "We didn't chase her with scissors
~ Dan Gutman
What intrigues me is making images that confound and confuse the viewer but that the viewer knows, or suspects, really happened.
~ Lois Greenfield
A violin is tuned to a fifth. But a guitar is tuned to a fourth with a one-third middle. It is very perplexing to composers.
~ Julian Bream
Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Life is very strange.
~ Louise Fitzhugh
Actually, the real mystery is why more people don't commit murder. It must be terrible to be human.
~ Louise Penny
It was one of life's little mysteries that this woman she had absolutely no respect for, could lay her flat.
~ Louise Penny
Back at the Swan, the cat was asleep, curled against the chimney breast, which still exhaled a gentle warmth. Its eyelids flickered with the images of cat dreams that would be even more perplexing to us than the stories our human brains concoct nocturnally. Its ear twitched and the dream faded instantly.
~ Diane Setterfield
he woke up dead.
~ John Grisham
The extraordinary thing was, there was not a mark on their bodies.
~ John Guy
Dear gym teacher, how the hell are you fat? Sincerely, you teach exercise for a living!
~ Unknown
seems incredible to them that metals and characters
~ Unknown
He shook his head. "I don't know. Someplace crookeder than here." "You know a place crookeder than Dallas?" "Sure.
~ John Sandford
That awkward moment when a package says 'Easy open' but you end up using scissors, knife, hammer, gun and a lightsaber trying to open it.
~ Unknown
Le sourire de Monna Lisa, dont nous ne savons rien (c'est peut-être un visage d'homme) est plus mystérieux.
~ Unknown
There is nothing more perplexing in life than to know at what point you should surrender your intellect to your faith.
~ Margot Asquith
HASH: There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is.
~ Ambrose Bierce
If your vision isn't perplexing and impossible, then you need to widen the diameter of your prayer circles.
~ Mark Batterson