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Quotes About Perplexing

Horror gives place to wonder at your true account; The rest outstrips our comprehension; we give up.
~ Aeschylus
It was a refinement of teasing, where you were never told why your answer was wrong.
~ Alan Hollinghurst
I washed a sock. Then I put it in the dryer. When I took it out, it was gone.
~ Steven Wright
Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'
~ Sydney J. Harris
It cannot be that it has gone, the yearning that made our blood unquiet, the unknown, the perplexing, the incoming things, the thousand faces of the future, the melodies from dreams and from books, the whispers and divination of women; it cannot be that this has vanished in bombardment, in despair, in brothels.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
The woods were wrong.
~ Andrew Mayne
It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there
~ Andrew Roberts
In verità, come disse una volta re Dezmod contemplando il contenuto del suo vaso da notte: "Ciò è al di là della comprensione umana".
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
It made no sense—how can fire burn underwater?
~ Angie Sage
One of the few ways in which I feel I've actually matured is that as I've grown older I do find the concept of 'men' mystifying, whereas when I was a feisty young thing I was forever saying 'The most fun part of being a feminist is frightening men!'
~ Julie Burchill
I was excited to be nominated for the Grammy, but prizes are a little strange.
~ Kyle Gass
For reasons that baffle me still, my high school sports coaches put me in the first division of the rugby, cricket, and soccer teams.
~ Hamish Bowles
Sports like sailing, rowing, and bobsled have long vexed spectators and television producers.
~ Mary Pilon
Social entrepreneurs are driven to find sustainable solutions to the world's perplexing social problems.
~ Robert D. Lupton
Kant's position is extremely subtle – so subtle, indeed, that no commentator seems to agree with any other as to what it is.
~ Roger Scruton
self-referential semantic labyrinth.
~ Lawrence Wright
first no one knew exactly how to interpret
~ Leonard Mlodinow
Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin,' thought Alice 'but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing i ever saw in my life!
~ Lewis Carroll
I've often seen a cat without a grin...but a grin without a cat!It's the most curious thing I ever saw in my life! Alice's adventures in wonderland.
~ Lewis Carroll
Why is it that no one understands me and everybody likes me
~ Albert Einstein
why is it that nobody understands me, and everybody likes me?
~ Albert Einstein
The trouble with fiction is that it makes too much sense, whereas reality never makes sense.
~ Aldous Huxley
an impossible geometry
~ Alessandro Baricco
anything I've ever done. This makes string theory look as simple as addition.
~ Douglas E. Richards