Top 18 Inscrutability Quotes
#1. The inscrutability [of economics] is perhaps not unintentional. It gives endless employment to dialecticians who otherwise might become public charges or, at very worst, swindlers and tricksters.
Jack Vance
#2. Girls have a tendency to take responsibility for romantic misinterpretations, when often it's men whose perfectly honed emotional inscrutability makes life more complicated than it should be.
Mariella Frostrup
#3. We were friends, never paramours. A lover who is enigmatic will most likely prove to be a cataclysm waiting to happen. But a charming friend whose usual warmth is raveled through moments of cool inscrutability can be an intriguing companion.
Dean Koontz
#4. As the child once fantasized that its wishes governed the world, and the youth fantasized that heroism could manage to do it all, so the person in the second half of life is obliged to come to a more sober wisdom based on a humbled sense of personal limitations and the inscrutability of the world.
James Hollis
#5. You cannot find comfort in ducks.
Stoop to look into those beady brown eyes,
and they will tell you nothing.
- The Bridge, St. James's Park
Virginia Graham
#6. Blue screen of death: she'd crashed his system. Oh, well. Boys were so unstable that way, full of buggy, self-contradictory code, pathetically unoptimized.
Lev Grossman
#7. No labour is too mean for one who wants to earn an honest penny.
Mahatma Gandhi
#9. I think that our future has lost that capital F we used to spell it with. The science fiction future of my childhood has had a capital F - it was assumed to be an American Future because America was the future. The Future was assumed to be inherently heroic, and a lot of other things, as well.
William Gibson
#10. I walk these streets, a loaded six string on my back
I play for keeps, 'cause I might not make it back;
I been everywhere, and I'm standing tall
I've seen a million faces an I've rocked them all.
Jon Bon Jovi
#11. Bernard and I intend doing a lot with our lives and that includes actively helping other people. But how can we tell you our plans when we haven't finished making them yet?
Shelley Duvall
#12. I discovered very early on that if you wanted a thing, you went for it - and you got it. Most people never go anywhere, or want anything - so they never get anything.
Ray Bradbury
#13. I think wearing less makeup can seem a bit scary for some women because we get so used to seeing ourselves look a certain way.
Louise Nurding
#14. (Happiness smelled like Park's house. Like Skin So Soft and all four food groups.)
Rainbow Rowell
#15. ... it's occurred to her that there are millions, billions, of other men and women in the world who wake up early in their separate beds, greedy for the substance of their own lives, but obliged every day to reinvent themselves.
Carol Shields
#17. The anchor man thrown overboard has simply rooted us in history's repeating cycle
Saul Williams
#18. It is what people actually did in the stock market that counted - not what they said they were going to do.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
