Mysterious Quotes - Page 28

• Aside from Velcro, time is the most mysterious substance in the universe.

  Dave Barry

  Substance, Velcro, Universe

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Turns Forty”, p.94, Ballantine Books

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• The longer one lives, the more mysterious life seems.

  Francis Brett Young

  Mysterious Life, Seems

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• A poem makes clear without making simple. Poetry's language carries what lives outside language. It's as if you were given a 5-gallon bucket with 10 gallons of water in it. Mysterious thirsts are answered. That alchemical bucket carries secrets also, even the ones we keep from ourselves.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Simple, Water, Secret

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Death is very mysterious to us. One moment someone is there with us, and the next moment they're not.

  Katherine Paterson

  Next, Moments

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• But love's true nature remains forever beyond the grasp of all our faculties. It is far greater than any feeling or emotion and completely surpasses any act of human kindness. It is the one sheer gift of contemplation, completely unattainable by autonomous human effort. The realization of this love always remains mysterious.

  Gerald May

  Love, Kindness, Forever

  "The Dark Night of the Soul: A Psychiatrist Explores the Connection Between Darkness and Spiritual Growth".

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• Wave after wave has brought to our shores beautiful and mysterious treasures from unknown worlds: figurines, animals, fetishes, masks, ceremonial or useful objects. They are called Primitive for want of a better name...What could never have been written is there, all the dreams and anguishes of man. The hunger for food and sex and security, the terrors of night and death, the thirst for life and the hope for survival.

  Dominique de Menil

  Beautiful, Dream, Sex

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• Reading-not occasionally, not only on vacation but everyday-gives me nourishment and enlarges my life in mysterious and essential ways.

  Mona Simpson

  Reading, Book, Vacation

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• No one can help us to achieve the intimate isolation by which we find our secret worlds, so mysterious, rich and full. If others intervene, it is destroyed. This degree of thought, which we attain by freeing ourselves from the external world, must be fed by the inner spirit, and our surroundings cannot influence us in any way other than to leave us in peace.

  Maria Montessori

  Solitude, Secret, Degrees

  Maria Montessori (1970). “The child in the family”, Contemporary Books

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• Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who's only texting you back three words. I've learned that from trying to figure out people who don't deserve to be figured out. When someone seems mysterious, we like to romanticize that he's "deep" or "complicated." But a lot of the time, things are exactly as they seem....

  Taylor Swift

  Relationship, Heart, People

  "Taylor Swift's Dating Tips: Glamour's March Cover Star on the One Thing She Won't Do in Relationships". Interview with Cindi Leive, www.glamour.com. February 4, 2014.

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• I don’t often know who should read what book. It’s a little bit like trying to set people up on a date - a good match is unpredictable and mysterious.

  Kristin Cashore

  Book, People, Trying

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• What is it that brings on these moods of yours?
  Nothing mysterious: the ordinary pain of being alive.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Pain, Ordinary, Alive

  Charles Baudelaire, Richard Howard (1983). “Les Fleurs Du Mal”, p.45, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Illness and accidents were mysterious manifestations of the war of the spirits, fought on the battleground of the body.

  Jean M. Auel

  War, Body, Spirit

  Jean M. Auel (2010). “The Clan of the Cave Bear (with Bonus Content): Earth's Children, Book One”, p.20, Bantam

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• They who pray with faith have fervour and fervour is the fire of prayer. This mysterious fire has the power of consuming all our faults and imperfections, and of giving to our actions, vitality, beauty and merit.

  Frances Xavier Cabrini

  Prayer, Fire, Giving

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• 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. Only with faith, you get back a lot more.

  David Baldacci

  Believe, Passion, Thinking

  David Baldacci (2011). “The Christmas Train”, p.228, Pan Macmillan

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• God might work on mysterious ways, but hell worked on efficient ones.

  Richelle Mead

  Might, Way, Hell

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Succubus Shadows”, p.242, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• Fragrances fill the senses with the mysterious.

  Diana Vreeland

  Fragrance, Senses

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• We lose eight children and teenagers to gun violence every day. If a mysterious virus suddenly started killing eight of our children every day, America would mobilize teams of doctors and public health officials. We would move heaven and earth until we found a way to protect our children. But not with gun violence.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Children, Teenager, Team

  Elizabeth Warren (2014). “A Fighting Chance”, p.237, Metropolitan Books

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• Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.

  A. N. Wilson

  Mother, Space, Intellectual

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• Even in the life of a Christian, faith rises and falls like the tides of an invisible sea. It's there, even when he can't see it or feel it, if he wants it to be there. You realize, I think, that it is more valuable, more mysterious, altogether more immense than anything you can learn or decide upon It will keep you free - not free to do anything you please, but free to be formed by something larger than your own intellect or the intellects around you.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Christian, Fall, Thinking

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• Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we're writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Art, Writing, Thinking

  Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Burgin (1998). “Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations”, p.83, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• It is always a great honour to mention a truth which has not become widespread yet. One of these truths is that man has no soul; he has only 'body' and 'mind'. Man's unshakable belief on the soul will not change this scientific truth! No belief can be higher than the scientific truths! Man can be born, can walk and work and can think without owning a mysterious and an immaterial soul! The soullessness of the man is a great tragedy both for the man and for the religion. But Man, contrary to the religion, will come out with triumph from this tragedy.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Change, Men, Thinking

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• The new racism, like God, works in mysterious ways and is quite effective in maintaining white privilege. For example, instead of saying as they used to say during the Jim Crow era that they do not want us as neighbors, they say things nowadays such as 'I am concerned about crime, property values and schools.'

  Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

  School, White Privilege, Racism

  "The new threat: 'Racism without racists'". Interview with John Blake, www.cnn.com. November 27, 2014.

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• I did love Kolkata as a mysterious woman, the beloved, my mother...I dont the outside world, my world is Kolkata... I do want to live, but Im certain that the death of Kolkata will bring my end

  Sukanta Bhattacharya

  Mother, World, Want

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• We are unconscious of most of our body's processes, thank goodness, because we'd screw it up if we weren't. The human body is so complex, with so many parts...a system which is far more complex than we can fully imagine. The idea that we are consciously care-taking such a large and mysterious system is ludicrous.

  Lynn Margulis

  Ideas, Environmental, Body

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• The audience is invisible and that's good. Somewhere my voice is drifting through a swine barn and the sound of it seems to perk up the sows' appetite. Or a lady is listening on headphones as she jogs along a beach, running to my cadence. Or a dog sits in front of the radio, head cocked, and the sibilants excite him in some mysterious way. A dog's humorist, that's me.

  Garrison Keillor

  Running, Dog, Beach

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