In the last quarter of the 20th century, Britons have been understandably obsessed with the problem of having too little power in… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they're too perplexed about… — Bette Davis Copy Share Image
Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Off to one side sits a group of shepherds. They sit silently on the floor, perhaps perplexed, perhaps in awe, no doubt… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
At some thoughts one stands perplexed, especially at the sight of men's sin, and wonders whether one should use force or humble… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“If I’m perplexed by the fact that I’m constantly lost, maybe somewhere in my head I’ve determined that being lost serves a… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
The most authentic Russian Impressionism leaves one perplexed if one compares it with Monet and Pissarro. Here, in the Louvre, before the… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
Cough clenched, and vomited something chunky into the grass. Terrific. The big dog sat on his haunches and looked at William with… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
The biggest questions that always have perplexed me are "Where do I come from?" and "Where am I going?" The "Where do… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Society, during the last hundred years, has been alternately perplexed and encouraged, respecting the two great questions -how shall the criminal and… — Dorothea Dix Copy Share Image
I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When a child of the streets stands before you in rags, with a tear-stained face, you cannot easily forget him. And yet,… — Charles Loring Brace Copy Share Image
Those who make a practice of comparing human actions are never so perplexed as when they try to see them as a… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
So I was doing well academically, and I was a well-ranked tennis player and was the apple of my handsome father's eye-and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
A bitter and perplexed "What shall I do?" Is worse to man than worse necessity. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I remember I would not stand still; I would not stop being perplexed by everything that spontaneously attracted me or caught my… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
There are some books and characters so pleasant, or rather which contain so much that is pleasant, that criticism is perplexed or… — John Frederick Boyes Copy Share Image
The biggest questions that always have perplexed me are "Where do I come from?" and "Where am I going?" — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Batty as it sounds, subject and style may choose artists, through some unfathomable cosmic means. How else to explain that even artists… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I am perplexed at the stupidity of the ordinary religious being. In the most practical of all matters he will talk and… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two… — Plato Copy Share Image
