Pastoral Resources

Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book.

Sir, you have tasted two whole worms; you have hissed all my mystery lectures and been caught fighting a liar in the quad; you will leave by the next town drain.

The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.

Heisenberg, Max Plank and Einstein, they all agreed that science could not solve the mystery of the universe.

I certainly wanted to maintain some sense of mystery about Picard and that's why we never allowed certain situations to fully evolve, like the relationship between Picard and Beverly Crusher.

I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery.

There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

Acting is a sense of wonder and magic and mystery for me and when life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward.

Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer.

It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away.

Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper.

From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles us in Hamlet.

Veiling truth in mystery.

There is no greater mystery to me than that of light traveling through darkness.

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.

Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.

It's like with a girl: it's more fun to meet and slowly, gradually learn things about each other. A little mystery is always nice and it's interesting to still learn new things about someone you are involved with.