Quotes of: Mysterious Keyword

The Catholic chruch as threatened your life - do you not want revenge? Have you not sold your hatred to the Pretestant cause to work against the church that has hunted you?" "No," I said simply. "I hate no one. I want only to be left in peace to unde...

Heresy

Did the men steal the papers?" Reynie asked, fearing her response. No, because they are fools," Sophie said bitterly. "They demanded to see the papers, and when I did not answer fast enough -- they were very frightening, you see -- they hurt me so th...

The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey

I've never understood it,' continued Wilfred Carr, yawning. 'It's not in my line at all; I never had enough money for my own wants, let alone for two. Perhaps if I were as rich as you or Croesus I might regard it differently.' There was just sufficie...

The Monkey's Paw and Other Tales of Mystery and Macabre

She seemed out of place at the Fairweather. Too posh, as Susan said. Too well dressed. She never strolled along the shore or went bathing or brought a picture postcard. She just sat on the veranda all day with a book she never read, gazing out to sea...

The Mysterious Mr. Ross

I saw her sign the register, but her name isn't on it any more. The bellboy says he never saw her. Now they've got me so I'm scared and shaky, like a little kid is of the dark. I want you men to help me. Won't you men help me?' 'We'll help you' - sai...

Tales of obsession: Mystery Stories of Fatal Attractions and Deadly Desires

I see the last two millennia as laid out in columns, like a reverse ledger sheet. It's as if I'm standing at the top of the twenty-first century looking downwards to 2000. Future centuries float as a gauzy sheet stretching over to the left. I also se...

Time Warped: Unlocking the Mysteries of Time Perception

All my moral and intellectual being is penetrated by an invincible conviction that whatever falls under the dominion of our senses must be in nature and, however exceptional, cannot differ in its essence from all the other effects of the visible and ...

Joseph Conrad

Life, a miracle of nature, an evolved molecule of matter, blossomed in the vast expanse of oceans. Methane, ammonia, hydrogen and water vapor When joined under the radio-active sun, The molecules of non living matter underwent massive changes and bec...

Love

Life is the greatest of all mysteries, and though I seek to solve its many riddles, my deepest fear is that I will succeed.

Call of the Herald

Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.

The Complete English Poems

Heart-mysteries there, and yet when all is said It was the dream itself enchanted me ("The Circus Animal's Desertion")

The Collected Poems

Dor shook his head. Such mysteries were beyond his fathoming. All he could do was...what he could do.

Castle Roogna

...seeking refuge from a world in which huge and mysterious forces were let loose to destruction.

Dragonfly in Amber

My training makes me uneasy with a happy mystery.

The Depths: The Evolutionary Origins of the Depression Epidemic

...Myths aren’t fairy tales or legends—they’re an honest attempt to explain mysteries...

A Familiar Rain

...I've discovered why you fascinate - you keep the mystery and as Carlyle noted, Wonder is the basis of worship...

A Familiar Rain

Study is the child of silence and mystery.

The Bohemians of the Latin Quarter: Scenes de la Vie de Boheme

Happiness is a mysterious thing, to be found somewhere between too little and too much.

A Book of Simple Living

The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.

The Blue Cross: A Father Brown Mystery

We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure.

Barnaby Rudge

Knowledge unlocks the door to the mysteries of our mistakes; wisdom guides us away from repeating them". HS/el

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