Famous Quotes & Sayings

Haruki Murakami

Strange and mysterious things, though, aren't they - earthquakes? We take it for granted that the earth beneath our feet is solid and stationary. We even talk about people being 'down to earth' or having their feet firmly planted on the ground. But suddenly one day we see that it isn't true. The earth, the boulders, that are supposed to be solid, all of a sudden turn as mushy as liquid - From the short story "Thailand

Reinhold Niebuhr

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

Trenton Lee Stewart

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

Vincent Van Gogh

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

Stephen Colbert

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

Sam Keen

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

Lewis Thomas

It is in our collective behavior that we are most mysterious.

Stephen Crane

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

Steven Pinker

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

Kenneth Branagh

There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them.

Terence McKenna

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.

Richard P. Feynman

I don't feel frightened by not knowing things.