Mystery Quotes - Page 28

• Murder mysteries are puzzles that are fun to resolve.

  Kathy Reichs

  Fun, Murder Mysteries, Resolve

  "Face to face with death" by Liz Hoggard, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2006.

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• We're well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flash forwarded, and flashed back yet still kept rolling along. We know it all now, with our thoughts traveling at the speed of a tweet, our 140 characters in search of a paragraph. We're post-history. We're post-mystery.

  Ali Smith

  Character, Past, Rolling Along

  "Do we still need Doctor Who? Time travel in the internet age" by James Gleick, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2017.

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• But figuring out Saddam Hussein was one our greatest mysteries. He marched to his own drummer and frequently as this unfolded he made decisions which were sometimes inexplicable to us and sometimes didn't look very smart.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Smart, Decision, Looks

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• Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists.

  Clifford D. Simak

  Stills, Concepts, Knows

  clifford d. simak (1976). “shakespeare's planet”

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• Step into the mystery of the mind. There are billions of minds, there are billions of selves. There are billions of worlds and dimensions.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Self, Other Worlds

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• Open up to the other dimensional planes so you can penetrate the mysteries of existence and enjoy the wonder of being, the wonder of being you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Other Worlds, Wonder

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• We live in a world where no one believes. Enlightenment and knowledge are laughed at. Those who seek and teach the mysteries are scorned and often persecuted. Welcome to the planet earth: environment hostile.

  Frederick Lenz

  Believe, Buddhism, Humanity

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• Human beings go to church. The guy in the front dressed in black is the guy you defer to. He is in charge of the mysteries of universe, which ordinary human beings don't seem to have the inclination to understand.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Guy, Humanity

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• People read more mysteries than they do political pamphlets.

  Maj Sjowall

  People, Political

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• I don't tweet very much. I still believe in the mystery of an artist. I believe in going out when I'm ready to sell my product. A lot of artists are out there every day. But I remember the Julio Iglesiases, the Jose Joses - and it was about the music.

  Romeo Santos

  Believe, Artist, Going Out

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• The world's philosophers and theologians searched for answers to the same mysteries.

  Robert Vaughn

  Answers, World, Philosopher

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• I do think that the abiding mystery of my origins has definitely had a profound effect upon my writing. There is that thing in the back of my mind where I think I don't really know who I am. And it may make it a little easier to shift around in my narrative voice.

  Gillian Welch

  Writing, Thinking, Voice

  "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 18, 2011.

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• If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice you.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Writing, Men, Fiction

  "Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Weiner Speak Out On Franzen Feud: HuffPost Exclusive". Interview with Jason Pinter, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2010.

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• It is impossible to meditate on time and the mystery of nature without an overwhelming emotion at the limitations of human intelligence.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Knowledge And Power, Impossible, Emotion

  Alfred North Whitehead (2007). “The Concept of Nature”, p.73, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The average person just sees through their senses. The world is filled with wonderful mysteries and beauty. You need personal power to open up all of that, without it - these are just words.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Average

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• The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all others is familiar with more than 0.000003% of the people involved.

  Criss Jami

  Believe, Pride, Men

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.109, Criss Jami

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• Many have said much about love, but you will find love itself only if you seek it among the disciples of Christ. For only they have true Love as love's teacher. 'Though I have the gift of prophecy', says St. Paul, 'and know all mysteries and all knowledge? and have no love, it profits me nothing' (I Cor. 13:2-3). He who possesses love possesses God Himself, for 'God is love' (I Jn. 4:8). To Him be glory throughout the ages. Amen.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Teacher, Finding Love

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• By His gracious condescension God became man and is called man for the sake of man and by exchanging His condition for ours revealed the power that elevates man to God through his love for God and brings God down to man because of His love for man. By this blessed inversion, man is made God by divinization and God is made man by hominization. For the Word of God and God wills always and in all things to accomplish the mystery of His embodiment.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Blessed, Men

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• Before His visible advent in the flesh the Logos of God dwelt among the patriarchs and prophets in a spiritual manner, prefiguring the mysteries of His advent. After His incarnation He is present in a similar way not only to those who are still beginners, nourishing them spiritually and leading them toward the maturity of divine perfection, but also to the perfect, secretly pre-delineating in them the features of His future advent as if in an ikon.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Spiritual, Maturity

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• A mystic sees beyond the illusion of separateness into the intricate web of life in which all things are expressions of a single Whole. You can call this web "God, the Tao, the Great Spirit, the Infinite Mystery, Mother or Father," but it can be known only as love.

  Joan Z. Borysenko

  Mother, Father, Expression

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• I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of not knowing what women have that's so powerful. It's this shield they put up to try to get closer.

  K. D. Lang

  Powerful, Thinking, Knowing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm interested in the hope we invest in science, and the disappointment we can feel when science flattens, or 'explains,' the larger mysteries of religion.

  Ben Marcus

  Disappointment, Feels

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• People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries.

  Denise Mina

  Reading, Murder Mysteries, People

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• Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding's a mystery to me now. You can't go back, your life changes every day.

  Billy Connolly

  Life Changing, Successful, Clothes You Wear

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• The desert wears... a veil of mystery. Motionless and silent it evokes in us an elusive hint of something unknown, unknowable, about to be revealed. Since the desert does not act it seems to be waiting -- but waiting for what?

  Edward Abbey

  Waiting, Doe, Desert

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.241, Simon and Schuster

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