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Each person is an enigma. You're a puzzle not only to yourself but also to everyone else, and the great mystery of our time is how we penetrate this puzzle.


Theodore Zeldin

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DEYTH BANGER Each episode provides a puzzle piece to a larger mystery.
BRANNON BRAGA Our purpose in mortality collectively, is to pioneer godliness; with each of our unique personalitie...
MICHAEL BRENT JONES Soviet Union foreign policy is a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma, and the key is Russian...
WINSTON CHURCHILL What if the puzzle of the world was a shape you didn't fit into? And the only way to survive was to ...
JODI PICOULT We are each a single puzzle piece in the big puzzle of life.We each have value. Every piece is neede...
ORLANDON POWERS This is only piece of the puzzle,
JACK HARRIS 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON Right now it's a mystery. We have a puzzle.
LUIS FUEYO We may only average three to five (tremors) a year, but each one adds a piece to the puzzle.
MICHAEL HANSEN We weren't friends[...]We were more like jigsaw pieces, each of us part of the same big picture. The...
LEMONY SNICKET I think each person, if you're a CEO, the most important thing is to have - to me, is to pick pe...
TIM COOK This is another great piece of the puzzle for a vibrant downtown.
MIKE WARREN If you imagine a 2,000-piece jigsaw puzzle, this is just one piece in the middle of that puzzle,
REBECCA COLE If you imagine a 2,000 piece jigsaw puzzle, this is just one piece in the middle of that puzzle,
REBECCA COLE Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but 'high suspense' writing is a situation whereb...
IRIS JOHANSEN 'Saw' is like a big jigsaw puzzle. When you put a jigsaw puzzle together, you put the bottom...
TOBIN BELL Reality is a puzzle revealing itself one portion at a time, always where the deepest shroud falls. W...
MARIANA FULGER Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious disease...
PARDIS SABETI To me acting is like a jigsaw puzzle. The jigsaw puzzle is of the sky and all the pieces are blue. O...
HENRY WINKLER You know that thing where you're trying to do the crossword puzzle, and you're trying to fit...
JEFFREY TAMBOR Sometimes you are but a piece of the puzzle; not the whole puzzle... And though your part may be sma...
ANDREW KASZOWSKI Believing in oneself is an important step to achieving but it is only one part. Action and continuou...
ZENG HAN JUN So if it seems like you're doing something different from what everyone else is doing, and if someti...
CRAIG GROESCHEL The fraud part of me was always there, just as a puzzle piece, objectively speaking, is a true piece...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We ...
SOPHY BURNHAM Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY At the end of the day, we take our influences and we try to piece small sections of each of them int...
JAMIE VARLEY The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piec...
PARDIS SABETI I've always known we were two puzzle pieces that fit together in a hollow that is our pain. There wa...
LISA RENEE JONES In the Christian context, we do not mean by a "mystery" merely that which is baffling and mysterious...
KALLISTOS WARE I assume that part of it is due to the quality of the show and the characters and their chemistry. P...
WILLIAM PETERSEN It is the last process in embedding our technology on a single chip for our set-top boxes. It is not...
HENRY NICHOLAS In truly good writing no matter how many times you read it you do not know how it is done. That is b...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Each of us has a piece of the puzzle,
LILLIAN SMITH When you're making an independent film, it's like this actor plus this actor equals this fun...
JILL SOLOWAY Trying to solve the Rubik's cube puzzle without an algorithm is like trying to runaway from yourself...
MORAKENG SEKGOKA Going to college is an amazing opportunity to not only learn and be book-smart but also to kind of s...
LINDSEY STIRLING One of the exciting things about an entanglement puzzle is there's no end to it. Once you solve ...
T. J. MILLER Puzzles’ are bound to arise for everyone, but how does the puzzle get solved, that much science if...
DADA BHAGWAN Life is a puzzle where sometimes all the pieces don't fit but with time you begin to see the entire ...
DR NIRVADHA SINGH I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigm...
SIR WINSTON LEONARD SPENCER CHURCHILL (3) Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I still haven't th...
GARY PLAYER As we all know... golf is a puzzle without an answer.
GARY PLAYER Being yourself is being the person everyone else wants you to be.
UNKNOWN I Don't Waste My Time Doing Crosswords, As My Life Is The Only Puzzle I Care To Resolve!
LATIF MERCADO If you're successful doing genealogy, there's a necessity to be organized. I also love working jigsa...
BONNIE BROTHERS If you're successful doing genealogy, there's a necessity to be organized. I also love working jigsa...
BONNIE BROTHERS We also share in the belief we do have what it takes in this locker-room and there's no great piece ...
ANDREW FERENCE It sounds like a cliche but I also learnt that you're not going to fall for the right person unt...
EMMA WATSON This is like a thousand-piece puzzle, and you only have put two pieces on the table. Who knows what ...
ANTHONY SABINO Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.
JOHN WOODEN The world is the puzzle, itself. The one who solves this ‘puzzle’ attains the degree of Parmatma...
DADA BHAGWAN We are caught in the contradiction of finding life a rather perplexing puzzle which causes us a lot ...
JOKO BECK Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn't always so ...
KURT VONNEGUT PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL
NATALIE URQUIETA This is a very complicated puzzle to try to piece together.
CLINT STRETCH A puzzle with a solution is a game. A puzzle without a solution is a work of art.
MARTY RUBIN He compared the intelligence task to solving a jigsaw puzzle, except that you didn’t get the box c...
P.W. SINGER Pieces of jigsaw puzzle might all be different but when fit in, completes the story. Expecting all p...
HARRISH SAIRAMAN (Love is the puzzle that) can’t be solved. Catlike, it follows no rules but its own, and only it k...
CHRIS DEE Writing a mystery is like drawing a picture and then cutting it into little pieces that you offer to...
ASHWIN SANGHI We're used to crossword puzzles, maybe ad-libs, but that's it. This is the first time we've seen a l...
EDRAY GOINS One common puzzle for the security-minded is how to work with confidential data on the road. Sometim...
BARTON GELLMAN We don't always rebel, but we do things to figure out the puzzle to our lives.
JAY ROSE Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
WINSTON CHURCHILL The experience of life that you and I have is pretty much a jigsaw puzzle in the box: Day-to-day exp...
ROBERT ADAMS All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil
BENJAMIN DISRAELI All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else - an animal's incomplete compared to a person....
GEORGES BATAILLE Watching 'CSI: Miami' is like watching 'Teen Jeopardy!' or doing the crossword puzzl...
WILLIE GEIST This is a marathon in life. You can't be sprinting all the time or else you wear yourself out. Y...
BRIAN MOYNIHAN Each one of us fulfills a piece of a larger puzzle.
ERIC MCCORMACK But to this day - I'm very literate now, I love to read, I read constantly - words don't res...
LANCE HENRIKSEN Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I still haven't the slight...
GARY PLAYER You see, every piece of the puzzle is required to complete the scene, while some have rough edges an...
GREG DUTILLY I love being an enigma. Every time I'm tempted to respond to someone who tries to put me in a bo...
BRAD PAISLEY Grace Town is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
KRYSTAL SUTHERLAND Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you'r...
MAYA ANGELOU I want to tell women that you need to love yourself and make yourself a priority. It's only when...
BIPASHA BASU Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, ...
JEANE KIRKPATRICK We think we've added another top-line piece of the puzzle and a great talent. To get a guy like this...
CARROLL DAWSON We all said our ultimate goal was to get back there and win. You could see each piece of the puzzle ...
FRANK OKAM A selfie is a sort of interesting way to reclaim the gaze, right? You're looking at yourself and...
EMILY RATAJKOWSKI Success is not an accident. When you put yourself in the right place at the right time, then you'...
ANDREW CHERNG I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma;...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma:...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma:...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Every film is a puzzle really, from an editorial point of view.
WALTER MURCH I think one thing I've learned over the years is just that you're not going to ever please e...
JEREMY SCOTT The search for contentment is, therefore, not merely a self-preserving and self-benefiting act, but ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Everyone is trying to say, 'This is Gen Y; we're not an old company. We're not doing old...
SHANE SMITH It's going to be hard to let her go. We will always refer to her work ethic. She will always be an e...
MAUREEN HEATH Not having a father is like not having all the pieces to a puzzle... You can still make out what the...
WILSON J. WASHINGTON III Bribery is not only by giving gifts to an organization or person to have your way,but each time you ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) He's definitely a special piece to our puzzle.
VINCE CARTER Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. About Russia
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. [About Russia]
WINSTON CHURCHILL This is a high-profile case and some of the pieces of the puzzle are missing,
HAROLD WILLIAMS

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THEODORE PARKER My hat is in the ring.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he should be able and willing...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they k...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood—the virt...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square dea...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure,...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Every man owes a part of his time and money to the business or industry in which he is engaged. No ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure t...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart, and that is softness of head.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer
THEODORE ROOSEVELT If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the hist...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT No man needs sympathy because he has to work. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the ch...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants them to do, a...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him t...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?
THEODORE ROOSEVELT We are not put on earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there always f...
THEODORE REIK Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upho...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT A mind too active is no mind at all.
THEODORE ROETHKE If I have erred, I err in company with Abraham Lincoln.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other pu...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the Preside...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first i...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.
THEODORE PARKER Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed howeve...
THEODORE PARKER Those 40 or 50 national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral...
THEODORE WHITE Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and ackn...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT