Bewildering Quotes

55 quotes by 52 authors

Today the insatiable quest for profit promotes the new slavery. In bewildering ways, the new is more pernicious than the old, for the New American… — Gerry Spence
A rich, multi-dimensional tour of Naples, most brilliant, battered, and bewildering of cities, here fixed to the page with wit and Ã©lan. Splendid. — Stacy Schiff
Things happen too quickly, crisis follows crisis, the soil of our minds is perpetually disturbed. Each of us, to relieve his feelings, broadcasts his own… — Jan Struther
Man knows that there are in the soul tints more bewildering, more numberless, and more nameless that the colors of an autumn forest....Yet he seriously… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The first real unhappiness I remember to have felt was when some one told me, one day, that I did not love God. I insisted,… — Lucy Larcom
Japanese maps tend to come in two varieties: small, schematic, and bewildering; and large, fantastically detailed, and bewildering. — Charles C. Mann
In this noisy, restless, bewildering age, there is a great need for quietness of spirit. Even in our communion with God we are so busy… — Alice Hegan Rice
There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural evolution, some in… — Arthur Keith
Anti-Semitism and Fascism have a long, mysterious, bewildering, poisonous and vile history and it's not exclusive to the Germans. — Bill Nighy
Nothing can be done well at a speed of forty miles a day. The multitude of mixed, novel impressions rapidly piled on one another make… — John Muir
Sex is the ... tremulous and bewildering and nerve-racking and delicious and myriad-adjectived soul-condition ... generally known as love. Ninety-nine point nine repeater percent of… — William John Locke
Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice. — E. M. Forster
Like most people - unless they're very practised at it or have no warm blood at all in their veins - I feel a little… — Viggo Mortensen
After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others. — Edith Wharton
His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and altogether bewildering. He was an insoluble problem. It was inconceivable how he had existed, how he had succeeded… — Joseph Conrad
No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter of time and… — Pat Conroy
I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering… — Helen Keller
Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaosâ€¦ to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous… — John Cheever
From a distance, it makes perfect sense that the people and the things you think will save you are the very ones that have the… — Tom Perrotta
I stood face to face with the moon and the ocean and the future that spread out with all its bewildering immensity before me. — Pat Conroy

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