Quotes about puzzling (15 Quotes)




    And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.

    As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.




    Though conditions have grown puzzling in their complexity, though changes have been vast, yet we may remain absolutely sure of one thing that now as ever in the past, and as it will ever be in-the future, there can be no substitute for elemental virtues, for the elemental qualities to which we allude when we speak of a man, not only as a good man, but as emphatically a man. We can build up the standard of individual citizenship and individual well-being, we can raise the national standard and make it what it can and shall be made, only by each of us steadfastly keeping in mind that there can be no substitute for the world-old commonplace qualities of truth, justice, and courage, thrift, industry, common sense and genuine sympathy with the fellow feelings of others.


    So for the rest of the NASCAR field it's all about looking ahead to 2006. And more discussion of Brian France's puzzling proposal to limit the size of Cup operations If owning a NASCAR team is so great, then ask Rusty Wallace and some of these other guys why they're not jumping in the water, ... Because you have to be borderline insane to want to do this, given the financial risks involved.

    I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.

    Sometimes one comes across an especially odd trading day when nothing much makes sense. Yesterday's session was a case in point, with the action in the natural gas complex being particularly puzzling.




    Ford has been doing a good job with some of its recent seat designs such as those in the Freestyle SUV and Five Hundred sedan. But the new Ranger head restraint is more than three inches below the top of the head of an average-size man. This means it won't begin to provide adequate protection for many taller people in rear-end crashes. It's puzzling why Ford decided that buyers of the new Ranger should get less protection against whiplash than people in some of its other vehicles.



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