Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bryan Ferry

Women! I have no idea. I don't know anything about women at all. They're a complete mystery to me.

Carlos Castaneda

Heightened awareness is a mystery only for a reason.

Carlos Castaneda

The world is incomprehensible. We won't ever understand it; we won't ever unravel its secrets. Thus we must treat the world as it is: a sheer mystery.

When you say it's a federal excise tax, you know, most of the time, oh it's the federal excise tax. And that's just understood that it's a tax you pay. Where exactly those funds go is something that's a mystery to all of us.

Agnes Martin

Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.

Alan Johnson

The past is history; The future is a mystery; This moment is a gift; That is why this moment is called the present; Enjoy it.

Charles W. Chesnutt

The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe.

Charles de Gaulle

There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.

Charles de Lint

It's good to have mysteries. It reminds us that there's more to the world than just making do and having a bit of fun.

Charles de Lint

Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?

Charles Caleb Colton

Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.

Charles Caleb Colton

We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith, by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason. Could they be explained, they would cease to be mysteries; and it has been well said that a thing is not necessarily against reason because it happens to be above it.

Charles Dickens

We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure.

Charles Spurgeon

Abide close to the cross, and search the mystery of His wounds.

Charles Spurgeon

I would sooner bring one sinner to Jesus Christ than unravel all the mysteries of the divine Word, for salvation is the one thing we are to live for.

Bill Johnson

The ability to embrace mystery is what attracts revelation.

Bill Johnson

The walk of Faith is to live according to the revelation we have received, in the midst of the mysteries we can't explain.

David Hockney

Time is the great mystery anyway. And it's still the great mystery in the moving picture as well.

David Hume

The whole [of religion] is a riddle, an ænigma, an inexplicable mystery. Doubt, uncertainty, suspence of judgment appear the onlyresult of our most accurate scrutiny, concerning this subject.

David Duchovny

Sex is great until you die, but it's never as great as it was when you were a kid, when it was a mystery.

Antony Sher

The whole of my acting career is a bit of a mystery to me.

My take on Max is that he's an outsider. Without him, certain parts of the mystery wouldn't get revealed. He's like Columbo. He's a mystery writer and he finds himself in a natural mystery that he has to figure out.

Nobody knows. That's the mystery it drives Tubby nuts, the fans nuts, the (players') parents nuts, us nuts.

Andrea Corr

On the paparazzi: I just want them to catch me with my dad and try to turn it into some 'handsome, mystery hunk'.

Ashwin Sanghi

Writing a mystery is like drawing a picture and then cutting it into little pieces that you offer to your readers one piece at a time, thus allowing them the chance to put the jigsaw puzzle together by the end of the book.

Thomas Keating

Redemption basically is about holistic health, if you want to translate it into modern parlance. What I suggest - based on the Christian tradition but not often preached - is that you can't enter into the fullness of the Pascal mystery of the redemption unless there is a radical transformation of motivation within you.

Brennan Manning

I asked for wonder, and He gave it to me.

Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you've got all the answers, then don't call what you do 'faith.'

Deepak Chopra

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.

The only mystery is why we find it surprising that someone opted out, ... It makes him different.

Matt Cain

The only mystery here is what took them so long. They've had a bunch of migration tools out there for a long time and they haven't been revised in ages.

Walt Whitman

I and this mystery, here we stand.

Joe Carnahan

If 'The Blacklist' taught me anything, it was kind of open-ended intrigue and leaving questions unanswered. Creating this kind of mystery by virtue of depriving the audience of these easy answers was what I was kind of into.