#mystery

He may be incensed, said Dizzy. I've never doubted the old parson's faith, but it has no place in politics. Good God, just imagine if each man allowed himself to be swayed by moral compunctions; we'd never get a damned thing accomplished in Parliament. ↗

— Carol K. Carr

#mystery #politics #faith

Better to have to retrace your steps and then move forward than never to move forward at all. ↗

— Anne Burack Sayre

#birthday #children-s #delightful #elementary-school #funny

Analogy of scientist who try to reach the higher speed: A child ant is tired after the long walk in a body of a jet. It tries to find a method of traveling faster than walking. ↗

— Toba Beta

#mystery #science #secret #technology #truth

We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#exploration #explore #land #mysterious #mystery

A person has to keep something to herself or your life is just a layout in a magazine. ↗

— Grace Kelly

#mystery #personal #life

I rested my head on the wall behind me and closed my eyes, wishing my life had a button: Ignore All. ↗

— Rachel Brady

#mystery #skydiving #sleuth #life

We—all of us—want to feel special. We want to feel the glory that shines on us when we reach beyond our boundaries to grab at something greater, to live a heroic life, if only for a day or a week or a moment. This simple yearning is in us all, hardly recognizable, often only the merest hint that there is something more to us. This is why we seek out new places...we want to remember a somewhere that gave us the space to expand ourselves, to become a little more of who we truly are. ↗

— J.E. Leigh

#travel-writing #life

Then, the sea fell, and the dying voice made another feeble effort, and then the sea rose high, and beat its life out, and lashed the roof, and surged among the arches, and pierced the heights of the great tower; and then the sea was dry, and all was still. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#life

Life is the greatest of all mysteries, and though I seek to solve its many riddles, my deepest fear is that I will succeed. ↗

— Brian Rathbone

#life #magic #mystery #philosophy #life

He was too old to be working, too young to be dead and too broke to do anything else. Life's a bitch, sometimes... ↗

— Chris Culver

#life