Baffles Quotes
21 quotes by 19 authors
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Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.
— Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
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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, like, really baffles you, and…
— Dean Koontz
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If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start…
— Aristophanes
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I hate it when I go out and I see parents going, 'don't do that', or 'stop doing that' when some kid's just hanging off…
— Joe Strummer
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The magician depends for the success of his art upon the credulity of the people. Whatever mystifies, excites curiosity; whatever in turn baffles this curiosity,…
— Alexander Herrmann
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New York does nothing for those of us who are inclined to love her except implant in our hearts a homesickness that baffles us until…
— Maeve Brennan
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Our God is Jehovah of hosts, who can summon unexpected reinforcements at any moment to aid His people. Believe that He is there between you…
— F B Meyer
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One piece of advice can be universally handed out, and it applies equally to speaking, understanding, reading, and writing. If in the course of any…
— Mario Pei
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Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel with…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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People say Dolphins are intelligent and that but they’ve never done anything that have blown me away. They say I’m a div and Dolphins are…
— Karl Pilkington
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Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be fulfilled and thus…
— Henri Bergson
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For three years, between 16 and 19, I was the opening-act-for-the-opening-act-for-the-opening-act, you know? And then I was on tour with Ice-T, Stetsasonic, EPMD, Sir Mix-a-Lot…
— Vanilla Ice
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Art is a course in personal development that has no reliable diploma and no known end. The pursuit of art instructs in beauty as well…
— Robert Genn
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Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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But suppose the endlessly dead were to wake in us some emblem: they might point to the catkins hanging from the empty hazel trees, or…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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What baffles me is the comfort people find in the idea that somebody dealt this mess. Blind and meaningless chance seems to me so much…
— Peter De Vries
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It baffles me that people think that obliterating the past will save them from its consequences, as if throwing away the empty cake plate would…
— Timothy B. Tyson
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Creation discloses a power that baffles our minds and beggars our speech. We are enamored and enchanted by God's power. We stutter and stammer about…
— Brennan Manning
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Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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The idea that people in novels should be more sympathetic than people in life simply baffles me.
— Andrew O'Hagan
Who Wrote These Baffles Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 21 Baffles Quotes as follows: