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I am baffled by good writing.
Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.
The mind that is not baffled, is unemployed
They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.
We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled.
If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.
I'm baffled by the people who say, 'I'm just not going to vote.'
This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.
For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself.
The missing stairs baffled Clary. What did vampires have against stairs? -Clary, pg.266-
What baffled him was that there should be all this fuss about something so simple as love.
I've met people who are baffled by children, as though they were never children themselves.
I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here, Pierced to the soul with slander's venomed spear.
I am baffled by men. When they want me, I don't want them; when I want them, they don't want me.
Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely.
I don't have clear-cut positions. I get baffled by things. I have viewpoints. Sometimes they change.
What Enron was doing, what caused investors to embrace it in a rapture of baffled awe, was hiding debt.
I am baffled by the way sophisticated theologians who know Adam and Eve never existed still keep talking about it.
I'm baffled that Mark Greenberg would send an offensive email politicizing the beheading of an American journalist.
I think in general, people are baffled by love and what it does to them and how far they'll go to have love and be loved.
I am baffled by many Western politicians who continually blame low-cost imported goods for their own economic challenges.
I'm just baffled in the 21st century we as human beings are still dropping bombs on each other as a means to resolve issues.
'Arbitrary' and 'odd' are the words which best describe the pattern of my career. I'm perpetually baffled by the whole thing.
I take the view that we all have permission to be a little baffled by quantum information science and algorithmic information theory.
I couldn't believe my first job at the BBC was going to be a primetime show. I was baffled at first: 'Are you sure you've got the right Emma?!'
We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness fail.
Many investigators feel uneasy stating in public that the origin of life is a mystery, even though behind closed doors they admit they are baffled.
Peas baffled me. I could not understand why grown-ups would take things that tasted so good raw, and then put them in tins, and make them revolting.
But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.
I've always been baffled by how much we over-rate the statistically insignificant differences that separate competitors at the top end of the distribution.
I've always been baffled by critics of the CIA, who are horrified that it does illegal things. That is the purpose of an intelligence service: to perform illegal acts.
Actually, most mathematics courses do not teach reasoning of any kind. Students are so baffled by the material that they are obliged to memorize in order to pass examinations.
I am always baffled by age, but to be honest with you, I feel like I am about 34. I feel better now and I am certainly healthier than I was in my early 30s. I am more rounded too.
I am always baffled by age, but to be honest with you, I feel like I am about 34. I feel better now and I am certainly healthier than I was in my early 30s. I am more rounded, too.
I've never thought of myself in terms of an identity. I'm always baffled when I encounter someone who gives the impression about being confident about a particular defined identity.
I was asked to do an ad campaign for a supermarket once. I was baffled. It's strange when you realise your popularity or reputation is a marketable commodity; it's a stock, a currency.
But I have on occasion suddenly realised that some men feel slightly threatened by, or slightly baffled by, or confused by, possibly even now, by having a woman in... a very powerful role.
What I value in books is lucidity. I want the language to be rich; I love lexical fireworks on the page, but I have to know what it means. I want to be surprised and delighted, not merely baffled.
Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. The notion that it is the occasion for our cleverness fills me with baffled bitterness and anger.
I think my mother was baffled by me. We were polar opposites. She was shy and retiring. I was over-fond of the limelight. Many times in my life, I was conscious of embarrassing her with my carrying on.
It's always baffled me why BET looks the way it does. This is Black Entertainment Television. Why are we up there, then, looking like idiots? It's because black people are marketing black people like that.
The pope is an intelligent man and realizes that time marches on. He says the Church has a long way to go in developing a real strategy that integrates women - but clearly he is baffled as to how to do it.
Truth be told, I'm not all that comfortable with celebrity culture. That was always something that baffled me, the obsession over fame. I don't think that's a reason why anyone should get into making music.
I'm baffled all the time. We don't know what's driving 96% of the universe. Everybody you know and love and heard of and think about and see in the night sky through a telescope: four percent of the universe.
One thing I had learned in college was that if you ever had a question about truth, reality, or the meaning of existence, read a novel by Albert Camus. Pretty soon you'll be so baffled you'll forget the question.
I sometimes think that I might be slightly autistic. There might be a syndrome that hasn't been named. I don't seem to see the world in the same way that most people I know see it. They don't seem to be baffled by it.
One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake.
The person I am now, compared with the person in the dream, has been baffled and defeated and only supposes he enjoys a full life. In the dreams, I see what a full life really consists of, and it is not what I really have.
As a woman thrust on to the political stage and baffled by the anger and depth of negative feeling I have been targeted with, Mary Beard's 'Women & Power: A Manifesto' brought me a sense of solidarity, power and determination.
When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled.