What Enron was doing, what caused investors to embrace it in a rapture of baffled awe, was hiding debt. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
“I'm baffled, absolutely fucking baffled. "what do you mean? I was trying to be considerate--" "To the cripple!" he shouts. "You were… — Tracy Wolff Copy Share Image
I was raised in an Orthodox Jewish household and I wouldn't say so much it's informed my views, but it's informed my… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
“I remember always being baffled by other children. I would be at a birthday party and watch the other kids giggling and… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I am always baffled by age, but to be honest with you, I feel like I am about 34. I feel better… — Julia Sawalha Copy Share Image
Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. The notion… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
One thing I had learned in college was that if you ever had a question about truth, reality, or the meaning of… — Gary Reilly Copy Share Image
I was very aware of office politics because I was so baffled by them. So much so goes unsaid. No one says… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
For most of our young lives, my family was baffled by elementary school bake sales, to which we were told to bring… — Jennifer Lee Copy Share Image
They fought on with a devotion which would puzzle the generation of the 1980s. More surprising, in many instances it would have… — William Manchester Copy Share Image
When I was in fact a child, six and seven and eight years old, I was utterly baffled by the enthusiasm with… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Dissimulation, secretiveness, appear a necessity to the melancholic. He has complex, often veiled relations with others. These feelings of superiority, of inadequacy,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
It is sometimes of God's mercy that men in the eager pursuit of worldly aggrandizement are baffled; for they are very like… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Even death after a long illness is without warning. The moment you had prepared for so carefully took you by storm. The… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I don't understand why people never say what they mean. It's like the immigrants who come to a country and learn the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Gail had a baby named Ned who was four months old, and a new look of baffled hurt, a left-behind sadness, like… — Daniel Woodrell Copy Share Image
It may be that when we no longer know... which way to go we have begun our real journey. The mind that… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused when our… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
The pope is an intelligent man and realizes that time marches on. He says the Church has a long way to go… — Janine di Giovanni Copy Share Image
I think in general, people are baffled by love and what it does to them and how far they'll go to have… — Phillipa Soo Copy Share Image
Lord, for the erring thoughtNot into evil wrought:Lord, for the wicked willBetrayed and baffled still:For the heart from itself kept,Our thanksgiving accept. — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
I'm baffled all the time. We don't know what's driving 96% of the universe. Everybody you know and love and heard of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I'm just baffled in the 21st century we as human beings are still dropping bombs on each other as a means to… — Katharine Gun Copy Share Image
Many investigators feel uneasy stating in public that the origin of life is a mystery, even though behind closed doors they admit… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
The mealy look of men today is the result of momism and so is the pinched and baffled fury in the eyes… — Philip Wylie Copy Share Image
The fashion pages have always baffled me. In my opinion, the articles appear to be full of gobbledygook as to make the… — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
I'm especially baffled by the idea of taking insurance against a U.S. default. If America defaults, we're talking about a chaotic world… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Life is a phenomenon sui generis, a primal fact in its own right, like energy. Cut flesh or wood how you like,… — Donald C. Peattie Copy Share Image
“I wonder,” he says, “how it can be that, though all these people think they know the king’s pleasure, the king finds… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The Canadian is often a baffled man because he feels different from his British kindred and his American neighbours, sharply refused to… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
I take the view that we all have permission to be a little baffled by quantum information science and algorithmic information theory. — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“I know well enough what it is, provided that nobody asks me; but if I am asked what it is and try… — St. Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
I sometimes think that I might be slightly autistic. There might be a syndrome that hasn't been named. I don't seem to… — John Banville Copy Share Image
I think my mother was baffled by me. We were polar opposites. She was shy and retiring. I was over-fond of the… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
Every time [Chris Bryant] asks a question I become more and more baffled why anyone would want to hack his phone and… — Nick Clegg Copy Share Image
If it is permitted to the enlightened but baffled Statesman, when deserted and fallen from his place, to appeal from the voices… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
May in Ayemenem is a hot, brooding month. The days are long and humid. The river shrinks and black crows gorge on… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Lord, for the erring thought Not unto evil wrought: Lord, for the wicked will Betrayed, and baffled still: For the heart from… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image