- Nov 07, 2020
Mysterious Quotes
Quotes on what resists easy explanation.
Mysterious describes forces that defy simple explanation across these lines: good fiction working through varied and unpredictable methods, and desire treated as a force that has drawn deep interest throughout human history. A lighter note wishes for prose with a cat's own enigmatic quality.
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- Nov 07, 2020
China was not at all what I expected it to be. I had an image of China as a very quaint and mysterious and peaceful place. Well, it's quaint and mysterious in some respects, but not in the ways I had thought. The people are mysterious. They don't often tell you what they feel.
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- Nov 07, 2020
To primitive man, the sky was wonderful, mysterious and awesome, but he could not even dream of what was within the golden disk or silver points of light so far beyond his reach.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man himself is a mysterious object, and the tools to probe his physiologic nature and function have developed only slowly through the millennia.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because atomic behavior is so unlike ordinary experience, it is very difficult to get used to, and it appears peculiar and mysterious to everyone - both to the novice and to the experienced physicist.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious, 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over, they ignobly fail, because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives, except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whereas Superman is a godlike guy from another planet and Batman is this mysterious, unknowable billionaire, everyone in 'Spider-Man' is human and flawed.
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There's nothing I hate more than gritty, linty, mysterious pocket schmutz in the cap of my lip moisturizer - or, even worse, on the applicator itself. I shudder at the thought.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The deep fascination with the mysterious, and the impulse to seek and locate ourselves in the cosmic context, seems to be imprinted in our DNA and psyches.
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, the early 2000s stood for this vast, magical, electronic cyber realm - a time when the internet was so infinite, mysterious, and under-explored.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recognized a picture of it immediately, without hesitation and astonishment, in an illustrated magazine.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some parts of our oceans, like the rich and mysterious recesses of our Atlantic submarine canyons and seamounts, are so stunning and sensitive they deserve to be protected from destructive activities.
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- Nov 07, 2020
God endorses the confusion and even outrage that we feel when mysterious things happen.
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- Nov 07, 2020