Quotes About Mystery

And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing.

If I produce a 450-pound Bengal tiger, it's going to create a lot more wonder than if I produce a rabbit.

Sexiness today is not about having a perfect body and wearing a tight mini skirt; it's about what you don't show that's truly sexy.

Dickens's final book, 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood,' forms the jumping-off point for my new novel, 'The Last Dickens'. This last work by Dickens has very little social commentary and a pretty tightly efficient storyline and cast of characters. Not necessarily what we think of when we think what characterizes Dickens.

If God is completely beyond our knowing, how can we know that he is unknowable?

The domain of the stranger is always an elusive elsewhere .

Ratsuni jäljet on lumi peittänyt. Ne, joiden edelle ratsastin, kummeksivat: mitä tietä hän meni?

God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed.

What then is time? Provided that no one asks me, I know. If I want to explain it to an inquirer, I do not know.

Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.

I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.

The spring that brims and ripples oh I know in dark of night.

Sing, my tongue, the Savior's glory,Of His Flesh the mystery sing;Of the Blood, all price exceeding,Shed by our immortal King.

Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.

and the strange, undeniable fact that the presence of death can be joyful.

It had struck me that the world was full of holes, holes which you could fall into, never to be seen again. I couldn't understand the difference between disappearance and death. Both seemed the same to me, both left holes. Holes in your heart holes in your life.

Hoe heet ik?' vroeg ik. 'An,' zei hij. De kaaiman sperde zijn bek open. Zijn tanden, scherp als dolken, glommen in het maanlicht. 'Hoe heet ik?' herhaalde ik. 'Coriander,' gilde Arise.

There is more betwixt the day and the night than we can ever know.

I'll do the black magic. Then, I'll hand you the wand.

Of the seven triggers, this is the most nuanced, and perhaps the most difficult to achieve. Mystique invites others closer, without giving them what they seek.

There on the bed where Reggie had been lying were Ellie's cursed red drawers.

People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.

It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.

The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.