Top 1200 Mysterious Ways Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.

To find ways of practicing democracy, not ways of orating about it, is our great problem.

Ye must leave righteous ways behind, not to speak of unrighteous ways.

In some ways, political decency is a sign of a healthy democracy, but in other ways, it is the cause of it.

There are many ways to the Divine. I have chosen the ways of song, dance, and laughter.

The main characteristic of collectivism is that it does not take notice of the individual's will and moral self-determination. In the light of its philosophy the individual is born into a collective and it is "natural" and proper for him to behave as members of this collective are expected to behave. Expected by whom? Of course, by those individuals to whom, by the mysterious decrees of some mysterious agency, the task of determining the collective will and directing the actions of the collective has been entrusted.

There are ways for what has been going on at that foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative, there are ways that that can be exposed and embarrass and humiliate and all that.

To say I am not mentally tired in ways and exhausted in ways would be a lie.

I always needed money when I was younger. I had different ways of getting it. A lot of the ways I don't like to talk about.

When I began writing these pages I believed their subject to be children, the ones we have and the ones we wish we had, the ways in which we depend on our children to depend on us, the ways in which we encourage them to remain children, the ways in which they remain more unknown to us than they do to their more casual acquaintances; the ways in which we remain equally opaque to them.

And, in some ways I like traveling, in other ways I'm sort of fed up by the whole notion.

In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.

Whenever we forgive, in small ways at home, or in great ways between nations, we free ourselves from the past.

I don't want to be mysterious.

I'm interested in ways that digital interfaces can be utilized as powerful narrative devices, and to engage people in new and exciting ways.

Sometimes you need to find ways to win games in different ways.

We do always have to make sure we keep people safe. There are the right ways of doing it, and then there are ways that are ineffective.

We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways.

You can't understand America without understanding the Puritans. In many ways, we're still living out their legacy in ways that are good and bad.

Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn't work.

I'm always looking for ways to develop as a Jazz artist, to find different ways of using my voice.

Digitization is certainly challenging the old ways of doing things, whether that's in publishing or politics. But it's not the end. In many ways, it is just the beginning.

I think a lot of us who had these oddly shaped childhoods, in some ways we're hyper-capable. We're able to take care of ourselves in a lot of ways but it's like we're missing a piece. When everyone went to school to learn how to be a regular person we were sick that day. We compensate other ways. Alcohol and drugs is one of those ways. Instead of learning how to cope with our problems and deal with hardship and deal with anger, we just decide to get drunk and not care.

I'm pretty normal in some ways. In some ways I'm completely extraordinary, and in other ways I'm completely weird and eccentric.

There's several ways of saying what's on your mind. And in states and counties where it ain't too healthy to talk too loud, speak your mind, or even vote like you want to, folks have found other ways of getting the word around. One of the mainest ways is by singing.

If you share information widely, but you present that information in ways that fits your own view, you're actually still misrepresenting. So instead what you should do is figure out ways to build systems that allow people to experience and classify their information in ways that are meaningful for them.

Jesus is not one of many ways to approach God, nor is He the best of several ways; He is the only way.

Virtues consist not only of acting in certain ways, but in ways of caring and feeling.

One of the ways you go after the debt, one of the ways you create jobs is by investing in people.

It is interesting that the investment industry has invented new ways to lose money when the old ways seemed to work just fine.

We have a saying in the House of Commons; that old ways are the safest and surest ways.

There are subtle ways and overt ways of alienating a child from a parent, but either way it's evil

There are about as many ways to be dead as there are to be alive. People linger in different ways, both publicly and privately.

We need to take a breath and find big ways and small ways to get active.

You need new ways to keep motivating yourself, and creative ways are part of the formula.

In some ways the fact that you are sometimes confronted with people who have such an opposite view to you on certain issues in many ways reinforces that identity that you have.

If there are two or more ways to do something and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.

My personality can be extreme in all ways, even in positive ways; I've learned that.

Buddhism is all about finding your own way, not imitating the ways of others or even the ways of Buddha himself.

There are thousands of ways to mess up or damage a software projects, and only a few ways to do them well

I think disease and all the things that we treat are tied to national security in a lot of ways that we maybe don't realize or that the American people don't realize. If other countries have a chance to be stable, then that helps us. If there are ways we can prevent if there are ways we can help other countries defeat diseases, we're about to totally eradicate polio. And can you imagine? That would be so terrific.

I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.

It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.

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.

As a writer and as a reader, I really believe in the power of narrative to allow us ways to experience life beyond our own, ways to reflect on things that have happened to us and a chance to engage with the world in ways that transcend time and gender and all sorts of things.

It's no use telling us that something was 'mysterious' or 'loathsome' or 'awe-inspiring' or 'voluptuous.' By direct description, by metaphor and simile, by secretly evoking powerful associations, by offering the right stimuli to our nerves (in the right degree and the right order), and by the very beat and vowel-melody and length and brevity of your sentences, you must bring it about that we, we readers, not you, exclaim, 'how mysterious!' or 'loathsome' or whatever it is. Let me taste for myself, and you'll have no need to tell me how I should react.

You can choose to think in ways that will support you in your happiness and success instead of ways that don't.

The fact is, almost every move of God is, in some ways, profoundly different from the previous ways that He has moved.

I'm endlessly fascinated with the ways families work and the ways they don't.

The ways that you innovate within a franchise are not inconsistent with the ways that you create new franchises.

There is ways and means to vent, and sometimes they can be the wrong ways.

How do we make the Lord's ways our ways? I believe we begin by learning of Him and praying for understanding.

God does not have a fixed plan that he must carry out; on the contrary, he has many different ways of finding man and even of turning his wrong ways into right ways...The feast of Christ the King is therefore not a feast of those who are subjugated, but a feast of those who know that they are in the hands of the one who writes straight on crooked lines.

Magic is not science, it is a collection of ways to do things ways that work but often we don't know why.

I think there's always pieces of yourself that bleed into your character. That's inevitable. In some ways, we have similarities, but in other ways, we're completely different. It's hard to say because I'm an actor living in a world where we're all pretty privileged, and this guy is fighting for his life. They're very different circumstances. Within those circumstances, there are probably ways that we react to certain situations that are similar.

Quantum mechanics, that brilliantly successful flagship theory of modern science, is deeply mysterious and hard to understand. Eastern mystics have always been deeply mysterious and hard to understand. Therefore, Eastern mystics must have been talking about quantum theory all along.

I trust in God, and His ways are not our ways. So we have to go with that, and there's nothing I can do about that.

Don't be mysterious; there isn't the time.

Calling can refer not only to ways of doing - meaning work - but also to ways of being.

My general view is the delivery of news is changing in dramatic ways, and will continue to change into ways we can't even predict.