Bewildered Quotes
114 Bewildered quotes by 99 unique authors
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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do - it's not so burningly important, after…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Well, there are always those who cannot distinguish between glitter and glamour . . . the glamour of Isadora Duncan came from her great, torn,…
— Dorothy Parker
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O Marvelous! What new configuration will come next? I am bewildered with multiplicity.
— William Carlos Williams
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Poetic success is when you write a poem that makes you excited and bewildered and aglow.
— Unknown Author
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Between being praised and persecuted condoned and condemned I might understandably have become bewildered particularly at the brand of ethics sometimes displayed by the staunch…
— Unknown Author
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I am bewildered by the magnificence of your beauty; and wish to see you with a hundred eyes . . . I am in the…
— Unknown Author
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I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man:…
— A. N. Wilson
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How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in life, bewildered and frightened because…
— Hortense Odlum
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It is a confession that we do not have such a prodigious head as is required to answer the question what is happening, that we…
— John D. Caputo
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Why are we reading if not in hope that the writer will magnify and dramatize our days, will illuminate and inspire us with wisdom, courage,…
— Annie Dillard
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Life is all too wondrous sweet, and the world is so beautifully bewildered; it is the dream of an intoxicated divinity...
— Heinrich Heine
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We live, understandably enough, with the sense of urgency; our clock, like Baudelaire's, has had the hands removed and bears the legend, "It is later…
— Lionel Trilling
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The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
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Today's child is bewildered when he enters the 19th century environment that still characterizes the educational establishment where information is scarce but ordered and structured…
— Marshall McLuhan
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A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there in a book, you may have your question answered
— Elwyn Brooks White
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Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.
— Alexander Pope
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The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and perhaps even more, so that…
— Walter Lippmann
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In the stream.- Mighty waters draw much stone and rubble along with them; mighty spirits many stupid and bewildered heads.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The lies we tell about our duty and our purposes, the meaningless words of science and philosophy, are walls that topple before a bewildered little…
— John Steinbeck
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We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction.…
— Woodrow Wilson
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Wanting to change, to improve, a person's situation means offering him, for difficulties in which he is practiced and experienced, other difficulties that will find…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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War! When I but think of this word, I feel bewildered, as though they were speaking to me of sorcery, of the Inquisition, of a…
— Guy de Maupassant
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Men do not know the natural infirmity of their mind: it does nothing but ferret and quest, and keeps incessantly whirling around, building up and…
— Michel de Montaigne
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The bee himself did not evade the schoolboy more than she evaded me, and even at this day I still stand somewhat bewildered, like the…
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The general public are…
— Noam Chomsky
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