#mystery

The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#conceal #first #first step #innocent #later

I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride. ↗

— Muriel Rukeyser

#hear #i #lives #mystery #offering

It is a mystery why any Americans would support the concept of the EU. ↗

— Phyllis Schlafly

#concept #eu #mystery #support #why

Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists. ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

#even #exists #great #know #more

The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue. ↗

— George A. Smith

#enthusiasm #ever #feels #god #made

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

— Michael Stipe

#enigma #i #masses #mystery #poet

Film and television are just different. Film is cool because it's a complete package. You know the beginning, middle, and end. You can plan it out more, which I like. But with television you get a new script every week, so it's constantly a mystery as to what you're going to be doing. ↗

— Austin Butler

#beginning #complete #constantly #cool #different

You need mystery. You actually do. I think that's what foreign women, French women in particular, are good at. There's still a sense that you need to keep some of the unknown because that's where the soul resides, or something. ↗

— Jason Clarke

#because #foreign #french #french women #good

The poorest of all men is not the man without a cent, but the man without a dream." --Julia Gast in Red Fox Woman ↗

— Judy Ann Davis

#western #dreams

The longer one lives, the more mysterious life seems. ↗

— Francis Brett Young

#mystery #unknown #life