"Early youth is a baffling time" — Bruce Catton
"Early youth is a baffling time"
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Bruce Catton
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21 Quotes by Bruce Catton
Bruce Catton has 21 quotes on this site.
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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be…
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And there is the headlight, shining far down the track, glinting off the steel rails that, like all parallel lines,…
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Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the…
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A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can cause almost as much suffering as the most acute malevolence.
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The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town…
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In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip…
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Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the…
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I think I was always subconsciously driven by an attempt to restate that faith and to show where it was…
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Even the most painstaking history is a bridge across an eternal mystery.
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A singular fact about modern war is that it takes charge. Once begun it has to be carried to its…
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There is a rowdy strain in American life, living close to the surface but running very deep. Like an ape…
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Beneath everything else, North and West, there ran a profound, unvoiced, almost subconscious conviction that the [American] nation was going…
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More Baffling Quotes
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one of 44 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Baffling late-life discovery: Golfers wear those awful clothes on purpose.
— Herb Caen
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The northern ocean is beautiful, ... and beautiful the delicate intricacy of the snowflake before it melts and perishes, but…
— Unknown Author
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A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious.
— Walker Percy
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...Nature-the word that stands for the baffling mysteries of the Universe. Steadily, unflinchingly, we strive to pierce the inmost heart…
— William Crookes
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When things are baffling they usually don't unbaffle themselves.There's just, you know, a certain amount of baffling stuff that always,…
— Dean Koontz
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A feverish, fearless writer, Justin Taylor delivers 'blessed pleasure' in translating the 'baffling Christ babble' in The Gospel of Anarchy,…
— Christine Schutt
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The power of mistakes enables us to reframe creative blocks and turn them around...The troublesome parts of our work, the…
— Stephen Nachmanovitch
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Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling -- the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration.
— Niklaus Wirth
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Consciousness poses the most baffling problems in the science of the mind. There is nothing that we know more intimately…
— David Chalmers
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But alas, the most terrifying aspect of the whole fascist episode is the dark fact that most of its poisons…
— John T. Flynn
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It is baffling, I must say, that in our modern world we have such blind trust in science and technology…
— Prince Charles
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Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless…
— Edward Dahlberg
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