Mystery Quotes - Page 21

• A little mystery is not such a bad thing.

  Kyra Davis

  Littles, Bad Things

  Kyra Davis (2012). “Lust, Loathing and a Little Lip Gloss”, p.392, Harlequin

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• All too often too often we try to push, pull, outline and control our ideas instead of letting them grow organically. The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.

  Julia Cameron

  Heart, Creativity, Ideas

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.248, Souvenir Press

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• Your attitude will unlock the mystery of success you seek!

  Bill Walsh

  Attitude

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• Much is written about wine ... of its makers, its nuances, its myths. The white hot center of each wine’s mystery lies in humble corners of the world, where growers pour their intention, their character and their love of labor into each wine.

  Greg Brown

  Lying, Wine, Humble

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• When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.

  Abraham Verghese

  Men, Mysterious

  Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.26, Random House India

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• So how do theists respond to arguments like this? [The Argument from Evil] They say there is a reason for evil, but it is a mystery. Well, let me tell you this: I'm actually one hundred feet tall even though I only appear to be six feet tall. You ask me for proof of this. I have a simple answer: it's a mystery. Just accept my word for it on faith. And that's just the logic theists use in their discussions of evil.

  Quentin Smith

  Simple, Feet, Evil

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• I feel as though I have lived many lives, experienced the heights and depths of each and like the waves of the ocean, never known rest. Throughout the years, I looked always for the unusual, for the wonderful, for the mysteries at the heart of life.

  Leni Riefenstahl

  Ocean, Heart, Years

  Leni Riefenstahl (1992). “The sieve of time: the memoirs of Leni Riefenstahl”

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• I love to lose myself in a mystery to pursue my reason to an O altitudo.

  Thomas Browne

  Reason, Pursue, Loses

  'Religio Medici' (1643) pt. 1, sect. 9

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• Christ desires his mysteries to be published abroad as widely as possible. I would that [the Gospels and the epistles of Paul] were translated into all languages, of all Christian people, and that they might be read and known.

  William Tyndale

  Christian, People, Desire

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• Human reasoning can never answer the mysteries of our lives.

  Caroline Myss

  Answers, Humans, Reasoning

  Caroline Myss (2013). “Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing”, p.89, Harmony

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• Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.

  David Herbert Donald

  Writing, Stories, Memoir

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• The research in Ralph Keyes' The Quote Verifier is impressive, and each conclusion is like the solution to a real-life historical mystery. Who knew a reference book could be so entertaining?

  Will Shortz

  Real, Book, Historical

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• I don't like mysteries, which is why I want to solve them. It bothers me that there are things I don't know.

  Nelson DeMille

  Want, Bother, Solve

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• I long for the old days of Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn, stars who had real glamour and mystique. We only knew so much about their lives; the rest was a mystery.

  Pixie Lott

  Stars, Real, Long

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• Movies are to our civilization what dreams and ideals are to individual lives: They express the mystery and help define the nature of who we are and what we are becoming.

  Frank Pierson

  Dream, Civilization, Who We Are

  "‘Mad Men’ Creator Matthew Weiner ‘Lucky’ to Have Worked With the Late Frank Pierson in WGAW Statement About His Passing" by Jay A. Fernandez, www.indiewire.com. July 23, 2012.

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• Over every living thing which is to spring up, to grow, to flower, to ripen during this day say again the words: This is my Body. And over every death-force which waits in readiness to corrode, to wither, to cut down, speak again your commanding words which express the supreme mystery of faith: This is my Blood.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Spring, Flower, Cutting

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1995). “Hymn of the Universe”, p.15, Рипол Классик

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• I grew up reading comic books, pulp books, mystery and science fiction and fantasy. I'm a geek; I make no pretensions otherwise. It's the stuff that I love writing about. I like creating worlds.

  David S. Goyer

  Book, Reading, Writing

  "David S. Goyer Explains His ‘Graphic Novel’ Approach to Renaissance Intrigue in ‘Da Vinci’s Demons’". Interview with lison Willmore, www.indiewire.com. April 9, 2013.

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• The great mystery of adaptation is that true fidelity can only be achieved through lavish promiscuity.

  David Hare

  Adaptation, Fidelity, Promiscuity

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• We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Splendid, Ifs

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• You accept things as they are, not as you wish they were in this moment...The past is history, the future is a mystery, and this moment is a gift. That is why this moment is called the present.

  Deepak Chopra

  Past, Wish, Moments

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• Writing should be an adventure, shrouded in mystery and uncertainty, blessed with amazing grace. In theory, of course

  Syd Field

  Blessed, Writing, Adventure

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• Mystery is underrated, and understanding is overrated.

  Larry McMurtry

  Understanding, Overrated, Underrated

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• There's never any closure in an awe-inspired life, only constant acceptance of the mysteries of life.

  Paul Pearsall

  Acceptance, Inspired, Closure

  Paul Pearsall (2007). “AWE: The Delights and Dangers of Our Eleventh Emotion”, p.27, Health Communications, Inc.

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• Our dream dashes itself against the great mystery like a wasp against a window pane. Less merciful than man, God never opens the window.

  Jules Renard

  Dream, Men, Window Panes

  Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.243, Tin House Books

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• We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.

  Jules Renard

  Talking, Existence, Our Lives

  Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.70, Tin House Books

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