Quotes About Mysterious

The reverend sacked out on the floor where Holt and me had been sleeping. The man had several pistols on him, as he was aware that the Lord works in mysterious ways and some of them require the blasting of others.

It's often said that God works in mysterious ways. You have to really think about what He's trying to do. You can't be lazy and believe in God; He doesn't make it that easy. It takes spirit and faith and passion to really believe. Like most things worthwhile in life, you get back what you put into it.

The bodies were gone, with no sign that they'd ever been there in the first place.

The low bump-bump-bump suddenly seemed to come from everywhere at once, the echoes bouncing back and forth between the alley walls.

No one can achieve profound characterization of a person (or place) without appealing to semi-unconscious associations. To sharpen or intensify a characterization, a writer makes use of metaphor and reinforcing background-weather, physical objects, animals- details which either mirror character or give characters something to react to...The game proves more dramatically than any argument can suggest the mysterious rightness of a good metaphor.

far-off, abstract, intangible God

American philosopher William James wrote of the mysterious formation of identity, "that the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it came upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely alive and active. At such moments, there is a voice inside which speaks and says, 'This is the real me!

Delightfully, darkly, sweetly

This genetic resistance, by the way, should not be confused with acquired immunity. Acquired immunity is when a body gets rid of a pathogen and afterward maintains a state of high alert for that same microbe. It's why people don't normally get the same illness twice. Genetic resistance is something deeper and more mysterious. It is not acquired through exposure—you are born with it.

Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

Always looks as though she's seeing things other people don't see. But she's got a lot of character. She makes herself felt, as you might say.

She wasn't easy to read. She'd do a devilish thing one day, and a really fine one the next.

I can assure you, it is not so gay as it sounds.

A snake heart can slide up and down the length of its body when it needs to. You'll never be able to catch my pulse, my shine.

On the summit of Mount Sumeru is the heaven of the thirty-three gods ( trays-tri???? ), whose roles are also somewhat mysterious, except for Indra.

Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.

I'm a Pisces, so I'm a very closed-book kind of person.

The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a cocktail or two.

The reality for those in the successful inner circle is simply "the mundanity of excellence": a smoothly applied routine of using finely tuned resources with the confidence that one knows how to make them pay off. To those in the outer tiers, even those in the second competitive rank, there seems to be some mysterious quality that the successful possess, and this sense of difference generates a barrier of anxiety which makes it all the more impassable.

There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them.

I wouldn't say she looked exactly wistful, but neither did she look as hard to get as a controlling interest in General Motors

Slim quiet Negroes

The place was horrible by daylight. The Chinese junk on the walls, the rug, the fussy lamp, the teakwood stuff, the sticky riot of colors, the totem pole, the flagon of ether and laudanum - all this in the daytime had a stealthy nastiness, like a fag party.

This man was so complicated that he could make a labyrinth seem like a straight line.