"What baffles me is the comfort people find……" — Peter De Vries
"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 more congenial - or at least less horrible. Prove to me that there is a God and I will really begin to despair."
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75 Quotes by Peter De Vries
Peter De Vries has 75 quotes on this site.
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When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the…
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I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.
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We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my…
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We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another.
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Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask.…
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We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.…
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Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.
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Life is a crowded superhighway with bewildering cloverleaf exits on which a man is liable to find himself speeding back…
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Every novel should have a beginning, a middle, and an end.
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Let us hope, I prayed, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under…
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Sex in marriage is like medicine. Three times a day for the first week. Then once a day for another…
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We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.
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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,…
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If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
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