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Saturday, September 21st, 2024
the Week of Proper 19 / Ordinary 24
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Sermon Quotations Archive

Quotations regarding 'Mystery'

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It would certainly be interesting to know what the CIA knew about Oswald six weeks before the assassination, but the contents of this particular message never reached the Warren Commission and remain a complete mystery.
Jim Garrison, American Public Servant (1921-1992)
There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
Charles de Gaulle, Leader (1890-1970)
I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it's a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death.
Beth Gibbons, English Musician (1965-  )
You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have not analyzed why they have turned out like this or like that.
H. R. Giger, Swiss Artist (1940-  )
You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun.
Elizabeth Gilbert, American Novelist (1969-  )
I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.
Sue Grafton, American Novelist (1940-  )
When it began to grow dark, the Rat, with an air of excitement and mystery, summoned them back into the parlour, stood each of them up alongside of his little heap, and proceeded to dress them up for the coming expedition.
Kenneth Grahame, Scottish Novelist (1859-1932)
I am a mystery to myself.
Angelina Grimke, American Activist
Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.
William Gurnall, English Author
It was 100 feet of 16 mm black-and-white film of a car coming to a stop sign, and driving off. I had to decide how to frame and light it. It was magic. There was a sense of mystery.
Conrad Hall, American Artist (1926-2003)
Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
Dag Hammarskjold, Swedish Diplomat (1905-1961)
They become the keepers of the mystery. They place themselves between the communicants of the religion, and the immediate experience. And then they dictate the terms on which you can have contact with this wonderful mystery. We don't dictate those terms.
Larry Harvey, American Celebrity
It's very important to reveal the mystery of the pyramid. Science in archaeology is very important. People all over the world are waiting to solve this mystery.
Zahi Hawass, Egyptian Scientist (1947-  )
A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.
Anthony Hecht, American Poet (1923-2004)
That's what everyone said attracted them to Lantana - I call it an adult mystery, because it's not a thriller in the sense of that other way, but it is a mystery.
Barbara Hershey, American Actress (1948-  )
I loved that it was about human relationships and then it was a mystery without falling into the trap of a thriller per se, because it pulled you in through people rather than through events or effects.
Barbara Hershey, American Actress (1948-  )
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 Novelist (1877-1962)
Well, really the way worked was that I had probably built fifty robots before Mystery Science Theater, and I had sold them in a store in Minneapolis in a store called Props, which was kind of a high end gift shop.
Joel Hodgson, American Entertainer (1960-  )
A lot of the shows that really become hit shows are often demonstrated, like Mystery Science Theater.
Joel Hodgson, American Entertainer (1960-  )
Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences.
Joel Hodgson, American Entertainer (1960-  )
 
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