Quotes with mystery

Quotes 81 till 95 of 95.

  • Hermann Hesse What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men - each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature - are shot down wholesale.
    Hermann Hesse
    German-Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1946) (1877 - 1962)
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  • David Malouf What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of consciousness into the mystery of what we have not yet become.
    An Imaginary Life
    David Malouf
    Australian writer (1934 - )
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  • Robert Frost What is this talked-of mystery of birth but being mounted bareback on the earth?
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Nora Ephron What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us.
    Nora Ephron
    American journalist, writer, and filmmaker (1941 - 2012)
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  • Agnes Martin When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
    Agnes Martin
    Canadian-born American abstract painter (1912 - 2004)
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  • George Washington Carver When I was young, I said to God, god, tell me the mystery of the universe. But God answered, that knowledge is for me alone. So I said, god, tell me the mystery of the peanut. Then God said, well, George, that's more nearly your size.
    George Washington Carver
    American botanist and inventor (1864 - 1943)
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  • Samuel Johnson Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Lord George Byron Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.

    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bryan Ferry Women! I have no idea. I don't know anything about women at all. They're a complete mystery to me.
    Bryan Ferry
    English singer and songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Stephen Hawking Women. They are a complete mystery.

    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final. It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
    Who Is Man? (1965)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • George Bernard Shaw You have no right to say that I am not sincere. I have found a happiness in art that real life has never given me. I am intensely in earnest about art. There is is a magic and mystery in art that you know nothing of.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Lewis Mumford A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.
    Lewis Mumford
    American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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  • Bill Cosby In spite of the seven thousand books of expert advice, the right way to discipline a child is still a mystery to most fathers and... mothers. Only your grandmother and Ghengis Khan know how to do it.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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