Quotes About Mystery

ninjas on steroids

Legend has it he was killed in a place called Durban, which is in the KwaZulu-Natal province. Which is, uh, where? Nellie said. Past the Mpumalanga province, Dan replied. Thanks a lot.

The old lady told us Do not wake Ruhan', Jake replied, but who knew Ruhan was a chimpanzee? Apparently I said something that sounded like 'I ate your bananas' in Estonian.

Who farted?" Dan asked. "It's our clothes," Amy said. "Our clothes farted?" Dan asked. "I don't know them, ladies and gentlemen," Nellie said under her breath, "never saw them in my life …

The Slimeballs Whose Names Should Not Be Mentioned but I'll Do It Anyway. The Massa.

closer, she spotted the brown wolf's

As the hand held before the eye conceals the greatest mountain, so the little earthly life hides from the glance the enormous lights and mysteries of which the world is full, and he who can draw it away from before his eyes, as one draws away a hand, beholds the great shining of the inner worlds. RABBI NACHMANN OF BRATZLAV

Butter tea and wind pictures, the Crystal Mountain, and blue sheep dancing on the snow - it's quite enough! Have you seen the snow leopard? No! Isn't that wonderful?" ? Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard

I think what we are feeling in this place is much too large for one simple soul to understand, too powerful.

the hand held before the eye conceals the greatest mountain, so the little earthly life hides from the glance the enormous lights and mysteries of which the world is full, and he who can draw it away from before his eyes, as one draws away a hand, beholds the great shining of the inner worlds. RABBI NACHMANN OF BRATZLAV

When it comes right down to it, we fear the unknown more than anything else.

Any idea where he might go if he did run away? Did he talk

he'd come up from Bradford to see the band. I didn't know him, but he was

Murder scenes in particular got them going: sex and death, the old aphrodisiac combination.

about Barber and Kelly? Banks couldn't tell. And if he

Kept herself fastened up as tight as a Scotsman's wallet, in spite of the sexy clothes and all. It was strictly top only for me." "So she was a tease?

I can't say I understand any of it, myself,' said Banks. 'Me, neither,' said Gerry.

That which we cannot speak of is the one thing about whom and to whom we must never stop speaking.

Here God is not approached as an object that we must love, but as a mystery present in the very act of love itself.

When rewritten in terms of the real world instead of the mysterious world of Mind, it made sense. 'Mind' was read as 'human self-consciousness'. The goal of history became the liberation of humanity; but this could not be achieved until the religious illusion had been overcome.

I'm being haunted, she blurted out. My dear, he cooed. Turn yourself into a tourist attraction and charge admission.

But you do not reject the supernatural out of hand,' Sears said. 'I don't know if I do or do not,' I said. 'Like most people.

Night came down around them, and the windows gave them back their faces, blurred into generalities.

It was the unhappy perception at the center of every ghost story.