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It was pretty obvious Lena wanted to be asked. Another mysterious thing about girls- they want to be asked to stuff even if they don't want to go.

Einstein said that the most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. So why do so many of us try to explain the beauty of music, thus depriving it of its mystery?

What if Park realized that all the things he thought were so mysterious and intriguing about her were actually just … bleak?

I greatly enjoyed Tom Reiss's The Orientalist, for its mingled scholarship and sleuthing, and for so elegantly solving the puzzle of one of the Twentieth Century's most mysterious writers.

I'm attracted to mysterious men. Every woman can relate to that, right?

Obviously, it's some kind of freely commanded modality in the psyche with which we can have a relationship if we will but evolve a control language and a dialogue. And it remains mysterious.

The librarians were mysterious. It was said they could tell what book you needed just by looking at you, and they could take your voice away with a word.

If there was one thing I had never been, it was mysterious, and if there was one thing I had never done, it was not talk.

one of the most mysterious of semi-speculations is, one would suppose, that of one Mind's imagining into another

Mozart creates music from a mysterious center, and so knows the limits to the right and the left, above and below. He maintains moderation.

I've spent my life cultivating knowledge of myself. But the more I know myself, the more utterly mysterious I become.

The more we chase away the false mysteries - those things we think we know about ourselves and others - the more mysterious our existence becomes.

I get drawn in when I feel there is something deep and mysterious going on beneath the surface of something.

God works in mysterious ways but at least he works, he's never on welfare in a mysterious way.

For Fleur de Chine, I imagined the romantic and mysterious women from Asia's cinematic past-from the '30s femme fatale in a cheongsam and dark lipstick, to the'60s Hong Kong heroine of In the Mood for Love. I wanted to capture that fascinating, exquisite and slightly scandalous femininity.

A mysterious fraternity born out of smoke and danger of death.

You looked at them and wondered why they were so ugly; you looked closely and could not find the source. Then you realized that it came from conviction, their conviction. It was as though some mysterious all-knowing master had given each one a cloak of ugliness to wear, and they had each accepted it without question.

Shay sometimes talked in a mysterious way, like she was quoting the lyrics of some band no one else listened to.

Nothing is mysterious, no human relation. Except love.

Writing is a mysterious activity.

Diane Arbus is one of the most mysterious, enigmatic, and frighteningly daring artists of the 20th century. Her work emerged from a deeply private place and profoundly affected all those who came into contact with it.

There is something so mysterious that it is almost like God. God is in the equations. God is in the fundamental constants. And that's fine. I mean, that's just redefinition of that which we find mysterious at the basis of the universe.

Something pretty mysterious had to give rise to the origin of the universe.

The Christian faith is mysterious to the core. It is about things and beings that ultimately can't be put into words. Language fails. And if we do definitively put God into words, we have at that very moment made God something God is not.

I like to talk about America. It's so mysterious.

No progressive knowledge will ever medicine that dread misgiving of a mysterious and pathless power given to words of a certain import.

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

Quantum mechanics, that brilliantly successful flagship theory of modern science, is deeply mysterious and hard to understand. Eastern mystics have always been deeply mysterious and hard to understand. Therefore, Eastern mystics must have been talking about quantum theory all along.

I don't feel frightened by not knowing things.

There are deeper strata of truth in cinema, and there is such a thing as poetic, ecstatic truth. It is mysterious and elusive, and can be reached only through fabrication and imagination and stylization.

Mysterious affair, electricity.

We have at last ascertained that miracles can be perfectly understood; that there is nothing mysterious about them; that they are simply transparent falsehoods.

I have an incredibly dark, mysterious, witchy side and another side that's very bubbly and cheerleader-esque.

You are the smartest children i know. You just don't beleive it.

Remember, children. For every exit, there is also an entrance. ~ Milligan, The Mysterious Benedict Society

And please don't call me that." I didn't call you 'that', I called you George Washington.

Children are capable of such open rudeness.

Milligan! Come and tell us why you're so dreadfully glum!" ~ Constance, The Mysterious Benedict Society

Every great thinker keeps a journal, you know.

Was it worse for him, Reynie wondered, to have felt loved and then rejected? Or was it worse to have always felt alone?

The gym is always open, except when it's closed.

Each color lives by its mysterious life.

Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.

The reason to preserve wilderness is that we need it. We need wilderness of all kinds, large and small, public and private. Wee need to go now and again into places where our work is disallowed, where our hopes and plans have no standing. We need to come into the presence of the unqualified and mysterious formality of Creation.

A way of life which excludes the realm of the unknown and the mysterious is simply not in harmony with life itself.

Healing is as incremental and mysterious as the damage ... what took time, takes time.

We have come to see how great is the unexplored.

If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion will be absurd and ridiculous . . . There are two equally dangerous extremes: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason.

You can't analyze God. He is too awesome, too big, too mysterious,

Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring

Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source / Of human offspring, sole propriety / In Paradise of all things common else.

There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

It (destiny) is what you have always wanted to accomplish. Everyone, when they are young, knows what their destiny is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible. They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives. But, as time passes, a mysterious force begins to convince them that it will be impossible for them to realize their destiny.

The most beautiful experience in the world is the experience of the mysterious.

I no longer believed in the known God of the Bible, but rather in the mysterious God expressed in nature.

When a man, after long years of searching, chances upon a thought which discloses something of the beauty of this mysterious universe, he should not therefore be personally celebrated. He is already sufficiently paid by his experience of seeking and finding.

We live in a world which in some respects is mysterious; things can be experienced which remain inexplicable; not everything which happens can be anticipated. The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole. For me the world has from the beginning been infinite and ungraspable.

Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others.

There is nothing as mysterious as something clearly seen

At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be infinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable.

In vain we chisel, as best we can, the mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny reappears continually.

Human beings, vegetables, or comic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player

It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith—as mysterious as faith itself.

There is an indefinable mysterious Power that pervades everything.

I told him that if we doubted that we are demons in Hell, he should read The Mysterious Stranger, which Mark Twain wrote in 1898, long before the First World War (1914-1918). In the title story he proves to his own grim satisfaction, and to mine as well, that Satan and not God created the planet earth and ""the damned human race."" If you doubt that, read your morning paper. Never mind what paper. Never mind the date.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Living Philosophies, 1931

It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith-as mysterious as faith itself. Like faith, it is ultimately not rooted in logic; it is a change in the climate of the mind.

You can improve your talent, but your talent is a given, a mysterious constant. You must make it the best of its kind.

An island always pleases my imagination, even the smallest, as a small continent and integral portion of the globe. I have a fancyfor building my hut on one. Even a bare, grassy isle, which I can see entirely over at a glance, has some undefined and mysterious charm for me.

A truly good book is something as wildly natural and primitive, mysterious and marvelous, ambrosial and fertile as a fungus or a lichen.

There are a lot of mysterious things about boats, such as why anyone would get on one voluntarily.

No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year -- ever since the day when the great liberator came to me: the idea that life could be an experiment of the seeker for knowledge -- and not a duty, not a calamity, not trickery.

The truth, indeed, is something that mankind, for some mysterious reason, instinctively dislikes. Every man who tries to tell it is unpopular, and even when, by the sheer strength of his case, he prevails, he is put down as a scoundrel.

More unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life.

Most of what you hear about entrepreneurshi p is all wrong. It's not magic; it's not mysterious; and it has nothing to do with genes. It's a discipline and, like any discipline, it can be learned.

Nor turned I ween Adam from his fair spouse, nor Eve the rites Mysterious of connubial love refused: Whatever hypocrites austerely talk Of purity and place and innocence, Defaming as impure what God declares Pure, and commands to some, leaves free to all.

I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

Forces of nature act in a mysterious manner. We can but solve the mystery by deducing the unknown result from the known results of similar events.

Tomorrow is the mysterious, unknown guest.

The kinder and more intelligent a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people. Kindness enriches our life; with kindness mysterious things become clear, difficult things become easy and dull things become cheerful.

In love, such a word, whispered, is a mysterious kiss of the soul to the soul.

A genuine faith resolves the mystery of life by the mystery of God.

It can only be by blinding the understanding of man, and making him believe that government is some wonderful mysterious thing, that excessive revenues are obtained. Monarchy is well calculated to ensure this end. It is the popery of government; a thing kept up to amuse the ignorant, and quiet them into taxes.

Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.

God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs

Rembrandt is so deeply mysterious that he says things for which there are no words in any language.

Let me stop there, but my God, how beautiful Shakespeare is, who else is as mysterious as he is; his language and method are like a brush trembling with excitement and ecstasy. But one must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live.

I think there is too much wrong with the world to ever get too relaxed and happy. The more natural state, and the better one, I think, is one of some anxiety and tension over man`s plight in this mysterious universe.