Top 10 Perplexing Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Perplexing Quotes from famous people such as Robert Kennedy, David Harsanyi, Stephen Kinzer, Sydney J. Harris, August Alsina, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don’t. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.
Robert Kennedy
For Philistines like me, the mysteries of Washington can be both perplexing and wondrous.
David Harsanyi
One of the most perplexing political questions of the late 20th century is how new democracies should punish deposed dictators and their associates. Victims cry for justice, but leaders of new regimes must decide to what extent it is possible, moral or prudent to pursue evildoers of the past.
Stephen Kinzer
Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, ‘Why not?’ and the other, ‘Why bother?’
Sydney J. Harris
What’s perplexing to me is that I never think it’s anybody’s business to know my business.
August Alsina
To some degree we all find life difficult, perplexing, and oppressive. Even when it goes well, as it may for a time, we worry that it probably won’t keep on that way.
Joko Beck
When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way – you suddenly have a new perspective on them.
Allen Klein
Perhaps many of the perplexing problems of the new music could be put into a new light if we were to reintroduce the ancient idea of music being a reflection of nature.
George Crumb
Of the countless ways to feel old in your 40s, perhaps none is quite as perplexing as seeing a young person trendily decked out in 1980s-style garb and saying to yourself, ‘I can’t believe that look is back in style. It was bad enough the first time around!’
Meghan Daum
The most important issue is clearly not the quality of treatment and care of these prisoners; rather it is the perplexing issue of what we now do with them.
Charles Bass