Mystery Quotes
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There's nothing more powerful than a woman who knows how to contain her power and not let it leak, standing firmly within it in mystery and silence. A woman who talks too much sheds her allure.
Marianne Williamson
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The only real mystery in the stories of political plagiarism is its durability in an age of Turnitin and other scanning software that can protect an author from his own mistakes, intentional or otherwise.
Evan Osnos
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I would rather walk every day in the darkness with a God who remains a mystery to me than in the light with a God I completely understand.
Kay Warren
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The purpose of art is mystery.
Rene Magritte
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As far as I can tell, you remain a mystery to yourself until the day you die.
Andrew Kaufman
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I think the whole experience of being a human being on the planet is such a mystery, to be honest. Trying to figure out one's purpose and asking "What is it all about?"
Annie Lennox Eurythmics
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...and then a murder mystery will occur.
Natsuki Takaya
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The mystery of light and the enigma of time form the twin pivots around which all my work revolves. In addition... my work attempts to create a mythology for our contemporary world.
Clarence John Laughlin
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I thought it would be quite a challenge to direct a mystery thriller. I hadn't really done something like that.
Catherine Hardwicke
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I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.
George Bernard Shaw
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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.
Naomi Shihab Nye
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Nothing must be left to chance in a magical performance. Everything conducive to enhancing the mystery of the illusions must be arranged with painstaking care and thought.
David Devant
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Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
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It is only through my daughter that I have come to realise that a life without femininity – devoid of mystery, emotion, gentleness and the unerring power of a woman’s love – is no life at all.
Antonella Gambotto-Burke
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If I really knew how to do good storytelling, I would be a writer. Mystery is not a huge part of it. ... It's tension, it's relationships. I think it's a struggle.
Scott Cohen
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We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure.
Charles Dickens
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We all dream; it is a mystery in which all humankind participates. I realize this is an assumption, but it is one that I have no qualms in asserting as fact: the dream is an experiential universal for humanity.
Andrew D. Chumbley
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The past is an unsolved mystery and the truth a moving target.
Edna Buchanan
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The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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It's the moon that makes it so still, weaving some mystery.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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She always has close calls when she solves a mystery!
Carolyn Keene
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It is remarkable that the elements diffused through the host of stars are some of those most closely connected with the living organisms of our globe.
William Huggins
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The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
Cesare Pavese
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Here lies the tremendous mystery - that God should be all-powerful, yet refuse to coerce. He summons us to cooperation. We are honored in being given the opportunity to participate in his good deeds. Remember how He asked for help in performing his miracles: Fill the water pots, stretch out your hand, distribute the loaves.
Elisabeth Elliot