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In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign shores, the foreign faces, the changing immensity of life, glide past, veiled not by a sense of mystery but by a slightly disdainful ignorance; for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence and as inscrutable as Destiny.

In the time of your life, live - so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite variety and mystery of it.

If you love the mystery aspect, then its a great position because there are so many things you can determine.

By the middle of the year, the cooling real estate market will take a bite out of employment growth everywhere. The question is, can other sectors of the economy pick up the slack? That is a big mystery right now.

Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, / In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

The mystery isn't in the technique, it's in each of us.

He still has some of the same mystique, but now the mystery has flopped from an asset to a liability. 'Who is the real Michael Jackson?' is not a question people want to ask anymore, when you're accused of something like this.

I don't know ... I expected that a lot sooner. This is a mystery group, but they seem to be having fun right now.

I don't know if I want to carry this burden - its still a mystery to me - but I know what I don't want to do, which is just to sit around ... I came here to find out whether ... we are going to control our own fate.

No one knows how this world came into being. It is a creation of consciousness itself. It's extraordinary, a mystery.

When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.

Mystery is more important than knowledge.

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

A God whom we could understand exhaustively, and whose revelation of Himself confronted us with no mysteries whatsoever, would be a God in man's image, and therefore an imaginary God, not the God of the Bible at all.

I feel that my life and therefore my writing accept the possibility of all the mystery. Everything we don't know; everything that can possibly happen.

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.

Even the most ordinary life is a mystery if you look close enough.

by creating a mystery and then bringing the audience into that mystery.

He's very much veiled in some mystery about where he came from, how it is he got into the department so quickly, the secrets he holds,

The greatest unsolved mysteries are the mysteries of our existence as conscious beings in a small corner of a vast universe.

Science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries

In religion, you're supposed to be somehow in touch with something deep and full of mysteries.

Good sex is a mystery. Perhaps humping and pumping is not a mystery, but good sex is a mystery, and how human beings become truly intimate remains a mystery.

Those things which are sacred, are to be imparted only to sacred persons; and it is not lawful to import them to the profane until they have been initiated in the mysteries of the science.

Every marriage is a mystery to me, even the one I'm in. So I'm no expert on it.

A saint is simply a human being whose soul has ... grown up to its full stature, by full and generous response to its environment, God. He has achieved a deeper, bigger life than the rest of us, a more wonderful contact with the mysteries of the Universe; a life of infinite possibility, the term of which he never feels that he has reached.

The mystery in how little we know of other people is no greater than the mystery of how much, Laurel thought.

The greatest mystery is unsheathed reality itself.

Far too often, when we think we are frightened by mystery, the fact is that we are haunted by history.

It is amazing where God will take you when you are willing to follow. Life is full of surprises when we choose mystery over security.

Within a moment there is monumental potential. That is the mystery of a moment. It is small enough to ignore and big enough to change your life forever

I actually wear two fragrances. It's a layered mystery.

I never stop to wonder why I'm not like other people. They mystery to me is why more people aren't like me.

... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.

He loved her because it was his nature to do so, but there were times when he could not endure her love for him. There were times when it became nothing but pure idiot mystery...

I don't know of any good work of art that doesn't have a mystery.

A philosopher is aspires to explain away all mysteries, to dissolve them into light.

Magnify the divine mystery and the holiness of mankind.

I've always had an air of mystery.

Men have scars, women mysteries.

Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.

Death and what came after death was no great mystery to Sabriel. She just wished it was.

Aside from the fact of just taking things out of context, I don't know why. That's part of a mystery. In a way, a transformation is a mystery to me. But there is a transformation, and that's fascinating.

Only mystery allows us to live, only mystery.

Mysteries are due to secrecy.

The mystery lies in the irrationality by which you make appearance - if it is not irrational, you make illustration.

Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind

The self is no mystery, the mystery is / That there is something for us to stand on

If thou love each thing thou wilt perceive the mystery of God in all.

It's the moon that makes it so still, weaving some mystery.

If you love all things, you will also attain the divine mystery that is in all things. For then your ability to perceive the truth will grow every day, and your mind will open itself to an all-embracing love

The goal of the artist is not to resolve life's mysteries, but to deepen them.

Memory calls us back, Mystery draws us forward.

We Americans are trained to think big, talk big, act big, love big, admire bigness but then the essential mystery is in the small.

Turns out Picasso's passion for uncertainty, mystery, and the thrill of life never ended.

I would love to do some kind of mystery movie, or an action flick, something with that combination

Look at this life - all mystery and magic.

The secret of showmanship consists not of what you really do, but what the mystery-loving public thinks you do.

The mystery surrounding Garbo was as thick as a London fog.

'Fringe' is one of my favorite television shows, from its inception. I absolutely love all of the science fiction of it, the mystery of it, and the science in it.

I know there is much mystery, much question to what happened, and I must also say, many lies.

A ship is a beauty and a mystery wherever we see it ...

Mystery and innocence are not akin.

To me, marriage is the ultimate mystery.

It is sad that unless you are born a god, your life,from its very beginning, is a mystery to you.

Who you are is a mystery no one can answer, not even you.

Life, not death, is the great mystery you must confront.

Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.

For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.

I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a high suspense writer.

We are born in mystery, we live in mystery, and we die in mystery.

Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding. That's what makes it mystery.

People quickly grow accustomed to being the slaves of mystery.

Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge--the abyss.

To me there is nothing more fraught with mystery & terror than a remote Massachusetts farmhouse against a lonely hill. Where else could an outbreak like the Salem witchcraft have occurred?

Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me.

I really wouldn't classify the books as mysteries. I prefer to say that they're adventures.

I love the mystery behind things.

A woman I should like to think I know rather well and a woman I had always considered a mystery, are in fact the same person.

I really love printmaking. It’s like a mystery and you’re trying to figure out how to rein it in.

Do what intrigues you, explore what interests you; think mystery, not mastery.

There's always been violence in movies, and there will always be violence in movies. Whether it lends to the one psychotic that's out there, thinking the worst thoughts you could possibly thing, is always going to be a mystery.

For he that diligently seeketh shall find; and the mysteries of God shall be unfolded unto them, by the power of the Holy Ghost, as well in these times as in times of old as in times to come; wherefore, the course of the Lord is one eternal round" - 1 Nephi 10:19

Plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom.

Sometimes the need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.

The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery.

No one could suspect the intricate mysteries of her heart.

Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.

Guys are so transparent most of the time. Unless, of course, they're dating you, in which case they are utter mysteries.

I don't like movies where everything happens fast. I like the buildup, the obstacles, the mystery.

The search for God's presence was much of a mystery as God himself, and what was God if not a mystery?

Part of what makes me love acting so much is, I love the mystery of the universe and the human experience, and storytelling is a great way to perform that, and that is always inspiring to me.

Mystery: Everything felt better before you got there than when you actually got there. When you actually got there, you didn't quite have the energy to be there.

The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.

There is no greater mystery to me than that of light traveling through darkness.

Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them

We take comfort, however, that mystery is not a synonym for contradiction.

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

When I was little, the great mystery to me was not how babies were made, but why?

The easiest way to solve a mystery is to decide that there is no mystery to solve.