#mysteries

The righteousness of Jesus Christ is one of those great mysteries, which the angels desire to look into, and seems to be one of the first lessons that God taught men after the fall. ↗

— George Whitefield

#angels #christ #desire #fall #first

Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science. ↗

— Walter Jon Williams

#biography #even #fiction #history #literature

Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries. ↗

— Anthony Hecht

#being #children #early #early age #grown-ups

Zac Efron is my obsession, we're the same person. We're not actually here, it's like Janet and Michael Jackson. He just puts on his wig and a dress, and it's me, and you don't know that. It's one of the greatest mysteries of all time. ↗

— Megan Fox

#dress #efron #greatest #here #his

I rather like mysteries. But I do dislike muddles. ↗

— David Lean

#i #i do #like #mysteries #rather

Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known? ↗

— Charles de Lint

#everything #indeed #known #left #life

It's good to have mysteries. It reminds us that there's more to the world than just making do and having a bit of fun. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#fun #good #having #just #making

Through the study of fossils I had already been initiated into the mysteries of prehistoric creations. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#been #creations #fossils #had #i

Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#irrational #mysteries #perceived #poetry #rational

The two men sat silent for a little, and then Lord Peter said: "D'you like your job?" The detective considered the question, and replied: "Yes—yes, I do. I know it to be useful, and I am fitted to it. I do it quite well—not with inspiration, perhaps, but sufficiently well to take a pride in it. It is full of variety and it forces one to keep up to the mark and not get slack. And there's a future to it. Yes, I like it. Why?" "Oh, nothing," said Peter. "It's a hobby to me, you see. I took it up when the bottom of things was rather knocked out for me, because it was so damned exciting, and the worst of it is, I enjoy it—up to a point. If it was all on paper I'd enjoy every bit of it. I love the beginning of a job—when one doesn't know any of the people and it's just exciting and amusing. But if it comes to really running down a live person and getting him hanged, or even quodded, poor devil, there don't seem as if there was any excuse for me buttin' in, since I don't have to make my livin' by it. And I feel as if I oughtn't ever to find it amusin'. But I do. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#hobbies #justice-system #mysteries #vocation #inspirational