“getting away with murder must be quite easy provided that one’s motive is sufficiently inscrutable.” — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
How inscrutable and incomprehensible are the hidden works of Nature! — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Copy Share Image
O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible, As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We arc the miracle of miracles, the great inscrutable mystery of God. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is an attribute of the Almighty whose ways of fulfilling Himself are inscrutable. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There is no life in thee, now, except that rocking life imparted by a gently rolling ship; by her, borrowed from the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
These warriors of the Sacred Band were inscrutable; they loved their war and death and picking through the bones of time to… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it--to realize it to the full--to be a profound and inscrutable… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
Putin is a totally inscrutable guy. He gives nothing away. People interpreted what they wanted to see in him. — Bill Browder Copy Share Image
So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Princes rule the people, and their own passions rule Princes; but Providence can over-rule the whole, and draw the instruments of his… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I don’t know where the universe came from or what happens to creatures when they die. I don’t know if the whole… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
I believe in the efficacy of prayer and I have a deep and sorrowful sympathy for one who is without faith. I… — Loretta Young Copy Share Image
Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
One ship is very much like another and the sea is always the same. In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The dual substance of Christ- the yearning, so human, so superhuman, of man to attain God... has always been a deep inscrutable… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
To expect that the intricacies of science will be pierced by a careless glance, or the eminences of fame ascended without labour,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Before exulatation had vanished, I felt as if I had been granted a marvellous privilege. Out of the inscrutable waters a beautiful… — Zane Grey Copy Share Image
The ways of Providence being inscrutable, and the justice of it not to be scanned by the shallow eye of humanity, nor… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Participation in the dance was entirely voluntary, a mental vow to worship the Mystery in this manner being expressed by a man… — Edward S. Curtis Copy Share Image
Jesus will turn your sorrow into joy. One can only imagine the shock and bewilderment the Apostles felt when the Lord told… — Patrick Madrid Copy Share Image
A total reverse of fortune, coming unawares upon a man who 'stood in high degree,' happy and apparently secure,-such was the tragic… — A. C. Bradley Copy Share Image
Without the suitable conditions life could not exist. But both life and its conditions set forth the operations of inscrutable Power. We… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Ultimately, Leibniz argued, there are only two absolutely simple concepts, God and Nothingness. From these, all other concepts may be constructed, the… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
Nature is not something to be fought, conquered and changed according to any human whims. To some extent, of course, it has… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Colour, as the strange and magnificent expression of the inscrutable spectrum of Eternity, is beautiful and important to me as a painter;… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
“The easiest way to be inscrutable is to be completely straightforward and honest. Then no one will be able to figure out… — George Hammond Copy Share Image
Familiarity with nature never breeds contempt. The more one learns, the more one expects surprises, and the more one becomes aware of… — Archibald Rutledge Copy Share Image
In man's life, time is but a moment; being, a flux; sense is dim; the material frame corruptible; soul, an eddy of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The determinations of Providence are always wise, often inscrutable; and, though its decrees appear to bear hard upon us at times, is… — George Washington Copy Share Image
A well-understood and testable hypothesis like sexual selection surely trumps an untestable appeal to the inscrutable caprices of a creator. — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
Cruel, but composed and bland, Dumb, inscrutable and grand, So Tiberius might have sat, Had Tiberius been a cat. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
I think a good poem should have some inscrutable part. You can't quite explain it. The poem can only explain itself to… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the same reason.… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
When over long periods of human history I scrutinized the activity of the Jewish people, suddenly there arose up in me the… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Men believe death's elections to be a thing inscrutable yet every act invites the act which follows and to the extent that… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
