#mysteries

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Our ignorance can be divided into problems and mysteries. When we face a problem, we may not know its solution, but we have insight, increasing knowledge, and an inkling of what we are looking for. When we face a mystery, however, we can only stare in wonder and bewilderment, not knowing what an explanation would even look like.


Noam Chomsky


#mysteries #problems #insight

The girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back.


Raymond Chandler


#goodbye

Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison.


Angela Carter


#ancient greeks #cinema #dark #dream #dreaming

By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries.


Robert Vaughn


#believing #certain #embraces #mysteries #supreme

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.


Mark Twain


#disappear #explained #mad #mysteries #remember

In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.


Simone Weil


#church #considered #degenerate #inevitably #into

If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice you.


Jennifer Weiner


#horror #men #might #mysteries #notice

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

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