Quotes About Bewilder

Not everything needed to rise to converge: It could just drift together into the indiscernible middle, and bewilder you.

Carl Reiter shook his head. He said helplessly: "I guess I don't know anything at all, sir.

can't help but see the wariness, the effort, the impatience. I can't help but see two people together out of a sense of genetic duty, doomed already to bewilder and disappoint each other, each honor-bound to defy the other.

I can't help but see the wariness, the effort, the impatience. I can't help but see two people together out of a sense of genetic duty, doomed already to bewilder and disappoint each other, each honor-bound to defy the other.

What people experience as obstacles in life are reflections of a decision to shut out understanding. If you shut out too much understanding, you become a victim, subject to forces that bewilder and overwhelm you.

To be alive is to be dizzy and not to know exactly where to go.

You don't know how you haunt and bewilder me. You don't know how the cursed carelessness that is over-officious in helping me at every other turning of my life WON'T help me here. You have struck it dead, I think, and I sometimes wish you had struck me dead along with it.

I quite like confounding people's expectations.

Reason cannot account for those moments in life that "bewilder the intellect yet utterly quiet the heart," as G.K. Chesterton observed.

To be alive is to be dizzy and not to know exactly where to go.

Of all useless things a knowledge of the future seems to me the most useless, for what are you to do with a thing before it exists? Such a knowledge could only bewilder you as to the right way to take—would make you see double instead of single.

Be the necklace-fire of stars, The cauterizing lightning. Bewilder us with good.

If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.

I shall charm him with such force that when I am done, he will be left lying limply on the ground, trying to remember his own name.

If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.

THE ESCALATING DEMANDS for rights after 1965, and especially the riots, did more than bewilder people. They also aroused significant backlash, the most vivid of the many reactions that arose amid the polarization of the era. It long outlasted the 1960s.79

Nothing is more pleasant than to baffle people. The

Deep down, you see, I long to be arcane, esoteric. I would love to confound people with their own language.

Perhaps you've experienced a similar kind of disorientation — you thought you knew where you were in relation to something (or someone), only to look up and have no idea where they went.

You amaze me and scare me. I can't figure where you came from or how you got to be what you are, but you couldn't have come where you're more needed.

He liked to bewilder his pupils, it was a form of tyranny.

He makes me change, he makes me want to dance round him, bewilder him, dazzle him, dumbfound him. He' so slow, so unimaginative, so lifeless. Like zinc white. I see it's a sort of tyranny he has over me. He forces me to be changeable, to act. To show off. The hateful tyranny of weak people. G.P. said it once. The ordinary man is the curse of civilization.