Quotes of: Mystery Keyword

Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things.

Ben Okri

Brian: [Brian turns to his mother, responding to her comment about the silliness of "World of Mystery"] If you're gonna make fun, I just as soon watch it by myself.

Mysterious Skin

That women are mysterious and unknowable is something every young man grows up believing. Men, on the other hand, never think of themselves as mysterious or confusing, and we are often at a loss as to why women want to figure us out.

Chris Abani

If all was told, supposing there lived a person who could tell all, there would be no mysteries left, and the would be very bad. Man cannot live without mystery. He had a great need of it.

Love

If you don't understand how the world works, then everything is a mystery to you. If everything is magical and mysterious, then you really don't work on logic anymore. Then, everything is all about belief.

Life

By unnerving definition, anything that the heart has chosen for its own mysterious reasons it can always unchoose later—again, for its own mysterious reasons.

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Sometimes you gotta say what's in your heart... And you have to stand for what you believe. No matter what." ~'Dr. Michael C. Anders,

Burnout: The Mystery of Space Shuttle STS-281

Because, as any English-speaking tourist will tell you, if you speak slow enough, loud enough, and maintain good eye contact, eventually they’ll understand.

Alana Oakley: Mystery and Mayhem

If she squinted, she could almost see the glint of water that was Darling Harbour. If she had been a real-estate agent, she most definitely would have.

Alana Oakley: Mystery and Mayhem

What lurking temptations to forbidden tenderness find their finding-places in a woman's dressing-gown, when she is alone in her room at night!

The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice

Perhaps he knew, there in the grass by the waters, that he had before him an immense journey.

The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature

True deduction can only be obtained through a certain amount of self annihilation.

The Real Sherlock Holmes: The mysterious methods and curious history of a true mental specialist

This guy was a class act. And that class was Acting 101. If I were the professor, I’d have given him an F—for murder.

Seven Sisters Sinister Murder Mystery Dinner

With this guy, two words come to mind: Probable murderer. But since he was the bartender, another word comes to mind: Understandable.

Seven Sisters Sinister Murder Mystery Dinner

This guy looks like a murderer trying to look like a normal guy trying to look like a murder. Could he be the killer? Only if M.C. Escher is the victim.

Seven Sisters Sinister Murder Mystery Dinner

One woman is smirking, and another is averting her eyes with disinterest. It’s just like what happens when I bring up politics with strangers.

Seven Sisters Sinister Murder Mystery Dinner

She’s too sexy to be a killer—but not a murderer. A woman this beautiful gets a patsy to dole out death, and that makes her a lead murder suspect.

Seven Sisters Sinister Murder Mystery Dinner

A mystery is not a puzzle waiting to be solved, but rather something for which there is . Mystery's offspring is not frustration but awe, and that sense of awe grows in tandem with knowledge.

Man Seeks God: My Flirtations with the Divine

We advise disciples not to follow anyone. Let them follow themselves. Each one should follow his resplendent and luminous inner Being.

The Major Mysteries: The Gnostic Jesus and the Path of Initiation

Love coaxes and even hood-winks us into the making of a decision so radical that if left to our own devices we would never have entertained it for a moment.

The Mystery of Marriage: Meditations on the Miracle