A mystery, in Christian theology, is what God knows and man cannot, and must instead believe. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
We take comfort, however, that mystery is not a synonym for contradiction. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We've heard some theories, but there is a lot of mystery surrounding my adoption. — Patti Stanger Copy Share Image
The origin of life is one of the great outstanding mysteries of science. — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Writing should be an adventure, shrouded in mystery and uncertainty, blessed with amazing grace. In theory, of course — Syd Field Copy Share Image
“You do think you know about everything," said her husband. I do," said Tuppence.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
There is justice in the world, Peter Lake, but it cannot be had without mystery. — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
If there is such a thing as spiritual materialism, it is displayed in the urge to possess the mountains rather than to… — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
The Catholic writer, in so far as he has the mind of the Church, will feel life from the standpoint of the… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Perfume is magic. It’s mystery. We recreate the smell of a flower. Of wood. Of grass. We capture the essence of life.… — M.J. Rose Copy Share Image
All civilizations at some time have fallen into this total terror, when the mystery of life was a kind of panic only… — Laurie Lee Copy Share Image
“I know the next year will be trying, but you must keep faith." His eyes bore into mine, and I fear he… — Tricia Copeland Copy Share Image
“The man breathed deeply with his eyes shut and his speech trailed off. Nick approached the patient with the syringe in hand,… — Jackie Sonnenberg Copy Share Image
The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
But figuring out Saddam Hussein was one our greatest mysteries. He marched to his own drummer and frequently as this unfolded he… — Brent Scowcroft Copy Share Image
I try to write about complex issues--young people in an adult world-- full of irony and contradiction in a narrative style that… — Avi Copy Share Image
Filled with rapture, his soul yearned for freedom, space, vastness. Over him the heavenly dome, full of quiet, shining stars, hung boundlessly.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Know, child, that the One God—He is so vast that He cannot be moved, else the Universe falls. Nor can He answer,… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
I have no little insight into the feelings of furniture, and treat books and prints with a reasonable consideration. How some people… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
I saw a huge steam roller, It blotted out the sun. The people all lay down, lay down; They did not try… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Mystery fiction is, after all, a substitute for tranquilizers, strong drink, and bad, if diverting, companions. One slips into bed ... onto… — Mary Cantwell Copy Share Image
“We don't know what's going on here. If these tremendous events are random combinations of matter run amok, the yield of millions… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Shimmel: “NEVER TRUST THE GOYIM. They are just like these other weird dangerous people, Messianic Jews! How dare Jews become “Christian-like”, Messianic?… — Rabbi Sipporah Joseph Copy Share Image
There are times when I wish I would have gotten a degree, but the past is history, and tomorrow's a mystery. — Goldust Copy Share Image
When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward. — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
The more the merely human part of the poet remains a mystery, the more willing is the reverence given to his divine… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I was in awe of the mystery of human compassion and the inability of love to make the distance between us any… — Keith Hollihan Copy Share Image
I accept relationship as my primary teacher about myself, other people, and the mysteries of the universe. — Gay Hendricks Copy Share Image
I feel like people want there to be this mystery between film and theater, but I just kind of went where I… — Anna Kendrick Copy Share Image
“Question marks are shaped like hooks for a reason: they will hook the reader and drag them deeper into the story” — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
Well, for me as a heterosexual man, the woman is still the mystery of life. — Nicolas Provost Copy Share Image
“Some mysteries aren’t questions to be answered but just a kind of opaque fact, a thing which exists to be not known.” — Joseph Fink Copy Share Image
“You may uncover more and, eventually, what seems altogether a mystery to us now may unfold and become plain.” — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Even the Universe isn't as mysterious as our Mind. Our Mind is actually a Universe. — Charles Brown Copy Share Image
“Actors are all about entrances, but writers are all about exits.” — Vincent H. O'Neil Copy Share Image
Every period of time is a sphinx that throws itself into the abyss as soon as its riddle has been solved. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
