Top 1200 Wonder And Mystery Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Through sports a coach can offer a boy a secret way to sneak up on the mystery that is manhood.

The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches.

It is a universal condition of the enjoyable that the mind must believe in the existence of a law, and yet have a mystery to move about in.

It's a cosmic joke that I'm a lesbian, because I understand men so well but women are a complete mystery to me.

It could be that the total scenario for human beings is an insoluble mystery until we die, followed by nothing at all.

There is much more mystery in the shadow of a man walking on a sunny day, than in all religions of the world.

she's never forgotten, either, how a mystery caught in the hand could lose its grace

'Original Sin' is, for me, a murder mystery with a huge cast that plays out on a grand stage.

It's not that I don't enjoy a good mystery that comes and goes in a hour. I do, but God, 'Breaking Bad' and 'Saul' unfold like novels.

I believe that part of what propels science is the thirst for wonder. It's a very powerful emotion. All children feel it. In a first grade classroom everybody feels it; in a twelfth grade classroom almost nobody feels it, or at least acknowledges it. Something happens between first and twelfth grade, and it's not just puberty. Not only do the schools and the media not teach much skepticism, there is also little encouragement of this stirring sense of wonder. Science and pseudoscience both arouse that feeling. Poor popularizations of science establish an ecological niche for pseudoscience.

But the higher a man mounts, the greater may be his fall; all genius is a conquering of chaos, mystery.

There should be a drama series about women trying to figure out their mystery leg bruises.

LSD was my "wonder child", we had a positive reaction from everywhere in the world. Around two thousand publications about it appeared in scientific journals and everything was fine. Then, at the beginning of the 1960s, here in the United States, LSD became a drug of abuse. In a short time, this wave of popular use swept the country and it became "drug number one". It was then used without caution and people were not prepared and informed about its deep effects. Instead of a "wonder child", LSD suddenly became my "problem child".

all the gods are the same unknowable mystery, just as each face of a jewel strikes light in a different direction

With the arrival of humans, it has been said, the universe has suddenly become conscious of itself. This, truly, it the greatest mystery of all.

There are two ways to approach the writing of a mystery novel: adhere to the rules, or break them with glee.

We may say that on the first Good Friday afternoon was completed that great act by which light conquered darkness and goodness conquered sin. That is the wonder of our Saviour's crucifixion. There have been victories all over the world, but wherever we look for the victor we expect to find him with his heel upon the neck of the vanquished. The wonder of Good Friday is that the victor lies vanquished by the vanquished one. We have to look deeper into the very heart and essence of things before we can see how real the victory is that thus hides itself under the guise of defeat.

The master says it's a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it's a glorious thing to die for Ireland and I wonder if there's anyone in the world who would like us to live. My brothers are dead and my sister is dead and I wonder if they died for Ireland or for the Faith. Dad says they were too young to die for anything. Mam says it was disease and starvation and him never having a job. Dad says, Och, Angela, puts on his cap, and goes for a long walk.

It is presentation which lifts the card trick from the level of the commonplace puzzle to the status of an unforgettable and inexplicable mystery.

I feel awed by the mystery of being both so finite and yet so infinite, so much and so little, so conscious and yet, so coincidental.

We don't have an explanation for everything that happens. We don't control almost anything. And if we are not open to that mystery, life becomes so small.

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.

In terms of publicity and interviews, well, it's really hard in this modern world to keep a sense of mystery.

The most courageous thing we will ever do is to bear humbly the mystery of our own reality.

Love's over brimming mystery joins death and life. It has filled my cup of pain with joy.

It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.

The incarnation is in itself an unfathomable mystery, but it makes sense of everything else that the New Testament contains.

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

Life is a mystery, and there is nothing to explain everything is just open, it is in front of you. Encounter it! Meet it! Be courageous!

The more light you have in an image, the less drama you get. The details start taking over; the mystery is all gone.

To know the whole world is nothing when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.

Grieve not because thou understand-not life's mystery; behind the veil is concealed many a delight.

I read of the revivals of the past, great sweeping revivals where thousands of men were swept into the Kingdom of God. I read about Charles G. Finney winning his thousands and his hundreds of thousands of souls to Christ. Then I picked up a book and read the messages of Charles G. Finney and the message of Jonathan Edwards on 'Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,' and I said, 'No wonder men trembled; no wonder they fell in the altars and cried out in repentance and sobbed their way to the throne of grace!'

Theres no mystery-the EMU Club is a hit! This is a fun, funny adventure that kids will love to read.

Why do millennials like Bernie Sanders so much? I love that this is a mystery to Washington. It's the authenticity, stupid.

There's a universe inside your head - a place of pictures and passions, of songs and sorrows. It's everything you are - and it's an utter mystery.

Music is a labyrinth with no beginning and no end, full of new paths to discover, where mystery remains eternal

Human consciousness is too obscure a mystery to itself for us to script our own lives.

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.

As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery

I think my favorite thing is the mystery of life - it makes you feel that much better about accomplishing something.

It is always a sad thing to understand those who once were obscured by the mystery and intangibility of the thoughtlessly loved.

God reveals himself to those who wait for that revelation, and who don't try to tear at the hem of a mystery, forcing disclosure.

Metaphor is the only possible language available to religion because it alone is honest about Mystery.

Such days of autumnal decline hold a strange mystery which adds to the gravity of all our moods.

It's all about knowing the balance, because I like to remain somewhat of a mystery. You need to have that, you know what I mean?

It's a mystery to me why everybody doesn't love jazz. I've never been able to figure that out.

Think and wonder, wonder and think.

From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles us in Hamlet.

Myth is a powerful medium because it talks to the emotions and not the head. It moves us into an area of mystery.

Fabricating answers to unanswerable questions is the domain of religion. A deity model is not the default alternative to a scientific mystery.

If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic.

I would hate to be that person who is, you know, the mystery writer who has to deliver a book every year to publisher X.

Indeed the mystery of Christ runs the risk of being disbelieved precisely because it is so incredibly wonderful

The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation.

Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.

I thought it would be quite a challenge to direct a mystery thriller. I hadn't really done something like that.

At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.

Beauty should be shared for it enhances our joys. To explore its mystery is to venture towards the sublime.

I've never been comfortable photographing people I know, myself included. I guess I prefer the mystery of strangers.