Mysterious Quotes - Page 32

• Nothing endures, nothing is precise and certain (except the mind of a pedant), perfection is the mere repudiation of that ineluctable marginal inexactitude which is the mysterious inmost quality of Being

  H. G. Wells

  Perfection, Mind, Quality

  H. G. Wells (2016). “A Modern Utopia”, p.31, H. G. Wells

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• Sierra felt full of hope and confidence in God. She knew who she was. And she knew Whose she was. Whatever mysterious plan God had for her life, it would be an interesting one. As Christy had said earlier, God writes a different story for each person. Sierra decided hers might not be a bestseller or even a thriller. It certainly wasn't a romance. But it was turning into a fine mystery. And she could live with that.

  Robin Jones Gunn

  Writing, Interesting, Romance

  Robin Jones Gunn (1997). “With this Ring”, Focus on the Family Pub

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• So much of history is mystery. We don't know what is lost forever, what will surface again. All objects exist in a moment of time. And that fragment of time is preserved or lost or found in mysterious ways. Mystery is a wonderful part of life.

  Amy Tan

  Forever, Way, Mystery

  Amy Tan (2001). “The Bonesetter's Daughter”, p.248, Penguin

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• The idea that God works in mysterious ways is rubbish. There’s nothing mysterious about his ways. They’re premeditated and slightly conniving, and they place you in an impossible situation.

  Melina Marchetta

  Impossible Situations, Ideas, Way

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.154, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• What moves me about...what's called technique...is that it comes from some mysterious deep place. I mean it can have something to do with the paper and the developer and all that stuff, but it comes mostly from some very deep choices somebody has made that take a long time and keep haunting them.

  Diane Arbus

  Photography, Moving, Mean

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• There were mysterious questions, but a mysterious answer was a contradiction in terms.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Answers, Contradiction, Term

  "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality". Book by Eliezer Yudkowsky, February 28, 2010 - March 14, 2015.

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• Evil is simple and empty. Evil has no mysterious depths. We stare into a dark hole and fill it with our fears, but it is only a hole.

  Brent Weeks

  Dark, Simple, Evil

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• As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Learning, Knowledge, Intelligence

  Albert Schweitzer (1984). “The Words of Albert Schweitzer”

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• It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most mysterious because it presents no new or special features from which deductions may be drawn. This murder would have been infinitely more difficult to unravel had the body of the victim been simply found lying in the roadway without any of those outré and sensational accompaniments which have rendered it remarkable. These strange details, far from making the case more difficult, have really had the effect of making it less so.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Mistake, Lying, Special

  Study in Scarlet (1888) ch. 7

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• Bro, it's dark. You can't go to a strange building with a mysterious address in the dark. Haven't you ever seen a horror movie?

  John Green

  Dark, Addresses, Strange

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.135, A&C Black

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• Romance novels are tales of brave women taming dangerous men. They are stories that capture the excitement of that most mysterious of relationships, the one between a woman and a man. They are legends told to women by other women, and they are as powerful and as endlessly fascinating to women as the legends that lie at the heart of all the other genres.

  Jayne Ann Krentz

  Powerful, Lying, Heart

  Jayne Ann Krentz (1992). “Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance”, p.113, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• He leaned up a little and watched her face. Her face would now be, forever, more mysterious and impenetrable than the face of any stranger. Strangers' faces hold no secrets because the imagination does not invest them with any. But the face of a lover is an unknown precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

  James A. Baldwin

  Imagination, Forever, Secret

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• It was pretty obvious Lena wanted to be asked. Another mysterious thing about girls- they want to be asked to stuff even if they don't want to go.

  Kami Garcia

  Girl, Mysterious Things, Want

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• I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect. My gift, or fatal flaw, is for nostalgia. I have sometimes been accused of demanding perfection, of rejecting heart's desires as soon as I get close enough that the mysterious impressionistic gloss disperses into plain solid dots, but the truth is less simplistic than that. I know very well that perfection is made up of frayed, off-struck mundanities. I suppose you could say my real weakness is a kind of long-sightedness: usually it is only at a distance, and much too late, that I can see the pattern.

  Tana French

  Distance, Real, Heart

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• In reality, childhood is deep and rich. It's vital, mysterious, and profound. I remember my OWN childhood vividly; I knew terrible things, but I knew I mustn't let the adults *know* I knew... it would scare them.

  Art Spiegelman

  Reality, Profound, Childhood

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• Prayer is a new, gracious, lasting will of the soul united and fast-bound to the will of God by the precious and mysterious working of the Holy Ghost.

  Julian of Norwich

  Prayer, Soul, Ghost

  Julian Of Norwich (1998). “Revelations of Divine Love”, p.152, Penguin UK

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• For you, someone kind of quiet and mysterious-" "I'm not mysterious," I interrupted. "You are a little. And sometimes people don't know whether to interpret silence as confidence or fear. They're looking at you like you're a bug so maybe you'll feel like you are one.

  Kiera Cass

  People, Silence, Bugs

  Kiera Cass (2015). “The Selection Series 4-Book Collection: The Selection, The Elite, The One, The Heir”, p.49, HarperCollins

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• I had no answer to those questions, only hope. With absolutely no one to turn to, no Mikey, no Axe, no Danny, I have to face the final battle by myself, maybe lonely, maybe desolate, maybe against formidable odds. But I was not giving up. I had only one Teammate. And He moved, as ever, in mysterious ways. But I was a Christian, and He had somehow saved me from a thousand AK-47 bullets on that day. No one had shot me, which was well nigh beyond all comprehension.

  Marcus Luttrell

  Christian, Lonely, Giving Up

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• Kestilan?" There was that name again. Oliver fought down an irrational surge of jealousy for this mysterious being who took up so much of Petunia's attention.

  Jessica Day George

  Names, Attention, Petunias

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• And who are all these people? There weren't this many when I fell asleep." Alfie shrugged, indicating that the universe was mysterious and nothing would ever be fully understood.

  Cassandra Clare

  People, Alfie, Understood

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson (2014). “The Bane Chronicles”, p.215, Simon and Schuster

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• It is the mysterious touch of the ideal that animates and sustains the real, and through it alone we can discover and affirm the ideal.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Real, Ideals

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal (2000). “The religious thought in Islam”

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• The flood of time is rolling on;
  We stand upon its brink, whilst they are gone
  To glide in peace down death's mysterious stream.
  Have ye done well?

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Time, Rolling, Gone

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1874). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.94

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• Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any.

  Duke of Wellington

  Inspirational, Unnecessary Things, All Things

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• Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness.

  John Milton

  Anniversary, Marriage, Wedding

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 750

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• High-tech tomatoes. Mysterious milk. Supersquash. Are we supposed to eat this stuff? Or is it going to eat us?

  Anita Manning

  Funny Inspirational, Food, Cooking

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