Quotes of Enigmatic - somelinesforyou

“ The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable. ”

- Sir John Vanbrugh

“ It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth.' and so it goes away. Puzzling. - Robert M. Pirsig. ”

- Robert Maynard Pirsig

“ The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling. ”

- Robert Maynard Pirsig

“ The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible. ”

- Bishop Robert South

“ We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order. ”

- Meg Wheatley

“ Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age. ”

- Dorothy Sayers

“ Early youth is a baffling time. ”

- Bruce Catton

“ The words of truth are always paradoxical. ”

- Lao tzu

“ It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha. ”

- Arthur Golden

“ Scientists in Australia are working on making biodegradable car parts out of hemp. This might get confusing. When someone says, roll up the window, they might mean, roll up the window! ”

- Jay Leno

“ Tis very puzzling on the brink Of what is called Eternity to stare, And know no more of what is here, than there. ”

- Lord Byron

“ Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong. ”

- Edward O. Wilson

“ The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. ”

- Aldous Huxley

“ A consultant is someone who takes a subject you understand and makes it sound confusing. ”

- Unknown

“ A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee. ”

- Arnold H. Glasgow

“ You've got your phenomenon on one hand. Concrete and knowable. On the other hand you've got the incomprehensible. You call it God, but to me, God or no, it remains just that, the unknowable. ”

- Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

“ History never looks like history when you are living through it. ”

- Johannes A. Gaertner

“ It is always the unreadable that occurs. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ I'm never at my best on television. There's a row of cameras between you and the audience, and it's very weird, very confusing. ”

- Shania Twain

“ Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring. ”

- Sidney J. Harris

“ Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring. ”

- Sydney J. Harris

“ After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others. ”

- Edith Wharton

“ This is going to be a high drama political season all around. It's a chance for Democrats to settle a few scores, one of which would be for Gore to help someone win in Florida, especially to help beat Katherine Harris. ”

- David Epstein

“ I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. ”

- Bill Gates

“ You have very accurately described the difficulty of presenting my books on film: many of my characters are alone most of the time, and when they do talk, what they say is mostly lies. That can make for a pretty confusing film. ”

- Thomas Perry

“ The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable. ”

- Sir John Vanbrugh

“ It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth.' and so it goes away. Puzzling. - Robert M. Pirsig. ”

- Robert Maynard Pirsig

“ The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling. ”

- Robert Maynard Pirsig

“ The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible. ”

- Bishop Robert South

“ We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order. ”

- Meg Wheatley
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