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Because," he said quietly as she stood up, "until you walked into it, this was an ordinary garden." Puzzled, Elizabeth tipped her head. "What is it now?" "Heaven. -- Judith McNaught
The ways of heaven are dark and intricate, Puzzled in mazes, and perplex'd with errors; Our understanding traces them in vain, Lost and bewilder'd in the fruitless search; Nor sees with how much art the windings run, Nor where the regular confusion ends. -- Joseph Addison
I am really puzzled to understand myself. -- Lincoln Steffens
If you're puzzled by what dark energy is, you're in good company. -- Saul Perlmutter
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. -- Erich Fromm
Where was I going? I puzzled and wondered about it til I actually enjoyed the puzzlement and wondering. -- Carl Sandburg
I'm really puzzled by why people in societies find it difficult to work collaboratively together with other people in societies. -- Michael Porter
When I look at designer books I am sometimes puzzled why they don't share their inspiration, when it's obvious somebody had such great inspiration. -- Anna Sui
It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me. -- Frances Farmer
Writers are like eremites or anchorites - natural-born eremites or anchorites - who seem puzzled as to why they went up the pole or into the cave in the first place. -- Joy Williams
What has always puzzled me is the flexibility of God's word. For instance, Catholics can now eat meat on Fridays. And limbo has been abolished. How does this work? Who tells them? -- Simon Hoggart
I've puzzled over the difficulty that students have with editing, and I think I've identified its source: It's their self-talk. We all talk to ourselves, inside our heads. That's what consciousness is. -- Richard Rhodes
When I was first elected I was puzzled why they were holding events in my honor as a mere freshman. I asked myself, why is a federal entity so involved in political activity? -- Brian Baird
Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim. -- William Feather
When you're teaching a hard concept and the students all have puzzled looks on their faces and then suddenly you can see that 'aha' moment, that they got it, that's just an incredible thing. -- Anant Agarwal
Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I am content to observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to escape from it, and with this I begin and end. -- John Newton
For the scientists, they're kind of puzzled and pleased that somebody finds their work interesting. It makes it fun for me. I feel like I've sort of turned over a stone that hasn't been turned over. -- Mary Roach
They came out over the highway and they stopped and that's when Barney got out, with the binoculars to try and identify the craft. I mean, he'd been in the military in World War Two, he's puzzled. -- Betty Hill
Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves. -- Willa Cather
I am very puzzled by the fact that young people are getting infected again. They don't take precautions despite an enormous amount of information. It's like riding a race car at 200 kilometers an hour. Some people like the risk. -- Luc Montagnier
Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians. -- Charles Krauthammer
Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end. -- Jean Paul
I heard so many stories from Gaomi's peasants that I had an irrepressible urge to write them down. Today, Gaomi's peasants know that they have become famous around the world through my writings, but I think they are a little puzzled by this. -- Mo Yan
Another interesting field, which is my own, is cofactors, not only to the disease but also to transmission. I am still puzzled by the fact that you get more sexual transmission in some ethnic populations. One way to answer this is to look for genetic factors. -- Luc Montagnier
I see myself as a citizen of the planet. Even as a child, I always found it mindless to root for your own team. I was puzzled by the fact that people said their own team was better than other teams simply because it was theirs. -- Wallace Shawn
I looked at some of the statues of Jesus; they were just stones with no life. When they said that God is three, I was puzzled even more but could not argue. I believed it, simply because I had to have respect for the faith of my parents. -- Cat Stevens
Howard Dean is not the first politician to distort facts in his own interests. But many activists in the party he now leads are puzzled over what he thinks he is accomplishing politically. Is it good politics to contend that Iraq was better off under Saddam Hussein than even a flawed Islamic republic? -- Robert Novak
I don't really believe in elegance. Ever since I first came to France many years ago to do the Chambre Syndicale course, I always felt I was somehow lacking, first of all being British - obviously a disaster! But I was also puzzled with this idea that you have to tie your Hermes scarf just right, or you can only wear black. -- Suzy Menkes
Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky -- Noam Chomsky
When rock music came in, I wasn't bitter about it. I was puzzled. -- Jo Stafford
At retirement, switching from "I must" to "I want" leaves me puzzled and uneasy. -- Mason Cooley
Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious, but who understands the non-existent. -- Elbert Hubbard
Our danger is not too few, but too many options ... to be puzzled by innumerable alternatives. -- Richard Livingstone
I like who I am, and am puzzled to find that not everybody shares this opinion. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
Ironic and jittery, we are puzzled by the old heroes with their fighting, boasting, and cocksure lovemaking. -- Mason Cooley
I would just stand there puzzled, then realize this would be a great place to make a show. -- Tommy Tune
I have for many years been puzzled by the persistence of Hugh Hefner. Why is he still here? -- Nora Ephron
'I beg your pardon?' Alice said with a puzzled air. 'I'm not offended,' said Humpty Dumpty. -- Lewis Carroll
I beg your pardon?' Alice said with a puzzled air. 'I'm not offended,' said Humpty Dumpty. -- Lewis Carroll
Tyson! Thank the gods, Annabeth is hurt!" "You thank the gods that she is hurt?" he asked, puzzled. -- Rick Riordan
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Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits. -- Benjamin Disraeli
I love the puzzled look on people's faces when I mention I grew up telling time according to television. -- Joe Zee
They ... asked me: 'How do you make your pictures?' I was puzzled ... I said, I don't know, it's not important. -- Henri Cartier-Bresson
What did you do, memorize a map of the city for fun?" says Christina. "Yes," says Will, looking puzzled. "Didn't you? -- Veronica Roth
If the rose puzzled its mind over the question how it grew, it would not have been the miracle that it is. -- Jack Butler Yeats
The law rarely hesitates in declaring its own meaning; but the Judges are frequently puzzled to find out the meaning of others. -- William Blackstone
I am puzzled that Conway Morris apparently doesn't grasp the equally strong (and inevitable) personal preferences embedded in his own view of life. -- Simon Conway Morris
The world is a very puzzling place. If you're not willing to be puzzled, you just become a replica of someone else's mind. -- Noam Chomsky
I don't.""Don't what?" She asked, somewhat puzzled."I don't know many things. The only thing I know is that I know nothing. -- Grace Fiorre
As I grew older - and even when I was younger - it had puzzled me why I continued and continue to be heterosexual. -- Shirley Geok-lin Lim
The assholes are always puzzled when the order of the universe is restored, when they are held accountable for their cowardly, pretentious, loveless ways. -- Carol Kepnes
My pockets had always puzzled Weena, but at the last she had concluded that they were an eccentric kind of vase for floral decoration. -- H. G. Wells
Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self. -- Erich Fromm
I have a skeptical and cranky side, and I'm forever puzzled why people believe the, seeming to me, dumb things that they choose to believe. -- Terence McKenna
Recently, someone asked me if I believed in astrology. He seemed somewhat puzzled when I explained that the reason I don't is that I'm a Gemini. -- Raymond Smullyan
It always puzzled him, when he was a child, that a woman who wrote books for a living should be so bad at telling bedtime stories." -- J. M. Coetzee
Notice this rent in my garment; I am at a loss to explain its presence! I am even more puzzled by the existence of the universe. -- Jack Vance
Bridget who is crazy said that sometimes she thought about suicide when commercials come on during TV. She was sincere and this puzzled the guidance counselors. -- Stephen Chbosky
It is good to pray for the repair of mistakes, but praying earlier would keep us from making so many. When puzzled, go to prayer and listen. -- J. C. Macaulay
Now,young lady,I suppose you're here for a work assignment." Work?" Tally said. They both looked down at her puzzled expression, and Shay burst into laughter. -- Scott Westerfeld
If, at any time, it comes into my head, that a present is due from me to somebody, I am puzzled what to give, until the opportunity is gone. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The killer looked up as the bullet hit him. He looked as if he were puzzled by some strange occurence, being too freshly dead to be aware of it. -- Robert A. Heinlein
I like noise. It's always puzzled me why one of the goals of contemporary recording is to get rid of noise and to eliminate any element of a performance. -- Moby
When you have made a thorough and reasonably long effort, to understand a thing, and still feel puzzled by it, stop, you will only hurt yourself by going on. -- Lewis Carroll
Let every man shovel out his own snow, and the whole city will be passable," said Gamache. Seeing Beauvoir's puzzled expression he added, "Emerson.""Lake and Palmer?""Ralph and Waldo. -- Louise Penny
Downworld?" Tessa echoed, puzzled. "Is that a place in London?" "Never mind that," said Will. "I'm boasting of my investigative skills, and I would prefer to do it without interruption. -- Cassandra Clare
I am puzzled by people today who, after moralizing about the need for cooperation and goodwill and love-thy-neighbor-as-thyself, suddenly invoke the most primitive, barbarous motivations for any kind of progress. -- Murray Bookchin
The ancient Greeks, poets, authors and philosophers all puzzled over the question but nobody really knows what love is - including me. Longing for another person is an exciting mental experience. -- Nicole Kidman
And I wish to thank you as well, Royce." He was puzzled. "For what?" "For reminding me that anyone, no matter what they've done, can find redemption if they seek it. -- Michael J. Sullivan
Nobody gets excited when they see me. If I put on my wizard outfit and walk around the airport for a couple of hours, I get a couple of puzzled glances. -- Andy Kindler
The fuzzy boundary lines between different readership ages have always puzzled me, so these days I just write what comes, and assume I can fix the mess later with an editor's help. -- Julie Berry
I deliver babies for a living. I have certainly delivered more than 150 children in my lifetime, yet I'm always puzzled when I hear that one of those children I delivered has autism. -- Manny Alvarez
People like you should be stopped, Mr. Woodrow,' she mused aloud, with a puzzled shake of her wise head. 'You think you're solving the world's problems but actually you're the problem. -- John le Carre
Everything, decided Francie after that first lecture, was vibrant with life and there was no death in chemistry. She was puzzled as to why learned people didn't adopt chemistry as a religion. -- Betty Smith
While forced to dwell apart from thy dear face, Love, robed like sorrow, led me by the hand And taught my doubting heart to understand That which has puzzled all the human race... -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim -- William Feather
We are puzzled and bewildered whenever we see suffering in this world because we have become accustomed to the mercy and the long-suffering of God. Amazing grace is no longer amazing to us. -- R. C. Sproul

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