Mystery is made a convenient Cover for absurdity. — John Adams
The job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer. — Sayings
It just starts in a world you don't know too much about, and he's so good at using that to amplify the mystery, but also the feeling that you're smart enough to figure this out. I love that.” — Duncan Trussell
Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one! — Yevgeny Yevtushenko
If I had a bookstore I would make all the mystery novels hard to find. — Demetri Martin
The terrain of the mysteries is the ordinary. To seek out mystery, we don't have to go anywhere. We must simply change our preception, our description, our consciousness of where we are. — Starhawk
The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. — Roald Dahl
And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it. — Roald Dahl
We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle — Terence McKenna
Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil. — Lord Byron
Yet mystery and imagination arise from the same source. This source is called darkness ... Darkness within darkness, the gateway to all understanding. — Lao Tzu
Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle. — Lewis Carroll
Everything is a mystery, ourselves, and all things both simple and humble. — Giorgio Morandi
Short Mysterious Benedict Society Quotes
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. — Bertrand Russell
Narnia! It's all in the wardrobe just like I told you! — C. S. Lewis
Ajihad: You are an enigma, Eragon, a quandary that no one knows how to solve. — Christopher Paolini
Choosing a new book was like looking for treasure. — Kit Pearson
It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit. — Antoine Rivarol
The subtlest of subtleties, this is the gateway to all mysteries. — Lao Tzu
It is such a secret place, the land of tears. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Mysterious Benedict Society Image Quotes
The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.
Benediction Quotes
You must remember, family is often born of blood, but it doesn't depend on blood. Nor is it exclusive of friendship. Family members can be your best friends, you know. And best friends, whether or not they are related to you, can be your family. — Trenton Lee Stewart
To defend his purity, Saint Francis of Assisi rolled in the snow, Saint Benedict threw himself into a thorn bush, and Saint Bernard plunged into an icy pond... You - what have you done? — Josemaria Escriva
Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not. — Thomas Chalmers
When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this behavior by his attitude towards the result of the behavior arranged by himself, we can be influenced towards behaving in the same way. — T. S. Eliot
I like playing off strong actors, whether it's Benedict Cumberbatch or Dominic Cooper. Also I'm a hopeless romantic, so I'm fascinated by relationships. — Lara Pulver
Day offers two equally necessary sacraments - the benediction of morning and the absolution of dusk. In the morning coffee blesses and in the evening wine absolves. — Michael Foley
The only rule is that there are no rules. — Del Close
I don't like the subtle infiltration of 'something for nothing' philosophies into the very hearthstone of the American family. I believe that 'Thou shalt earn the bread by the sweat of thy face' was a benediction and not a penalty. Work is the zest of life; there is joy in its pursuit. — Branch Rickey
Living should be perpetual and universal benediction. — Wei Wu Wei
She's A Mystery Quotes
Glamour is an attitude-it's the expression of a certain kind of confidence. A glamorous woman is always elegant, but she also possesses an air of mystery and excitement. She's dramatic-almost untouchable. — Ralph Lauren
Was it a light only she could see? A gypsy's spell? A mystery? — Mary Chapin Carpenter
I'd love to talk to Angelina Jolie. On my show I would love her because she's a mysterious, mysterious figure. — Isaac Mizrahi
That he loved her was his life’s greatest grace—that she loved him was a burden and mystery beyond compare. — Rosalind Miles
Oh, here's a clever one. Do you remember this question from the first test?It reads, 'What wrong with this statement?' And do you know what Constance wrote in reply? She wrote, 'What's wrong with you? — Trenton Lee Stewart
I would stay at my grandma's house on my birthday every year and I remember she had a bookshelf of murder mystery books along with really frightening books, like one on Jack the Ripper. She also had a poster of a shark in the closet which also terrified me at the time. — Christopher Bollen
... Simone Weil is a mystery that should keep us all humble, and I need it more than most. Also she's the example of the religious consciousness without a religion which maybe sooner or later I will be able to write about. — Flannery O'Connor
By some mysterious method, Susan Carr's gossip gave the listener a gentler feeling towards his kind. When she spoke of her neighbors' faults, one knew that somehow they were simply virtues gone to seed. — Margaret Deland
If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader as he or she reads it. — Nicole Krauss
Who has a right to tell me I have no gift, no talent, no passion ...' he murmured. 'Why do people say those things to you when youre young? Doesn't seem fair, does it?' 'No, darling, it's not fair,'she said. 'But the mystery is why you listen. — Anne Rice
She's Mysterious Quotes
She has seen the mystery hid Under Egypt's pyramid: By those eyelids pale and close Now she knows what Rhamses knows. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Hillary Clinton ripped FBI Director Louis Freeh on Wednesday. She said she can't understand how FBI documents could vanish and then mysteriously reappear. She has to say that or she'd be thrown out of the Magician's Society. — Argus Hamilton
Do you have spies in Clan Heavy?” “I have spies everywhere.” I looked at Andrea, who was hoarding bacon on her plate. “She had tea with Mahon’s wife.” Andrea said. Aunt B looked at her. “You and I need to work on your air of mystery. — Ilona Andrews
she's never forgotten, either, how a mystery caught in the hand could lose its grace — Barbara Kingsolver
Being Mysterious Quotes
Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had. — Alan Watts
An observer of men who finds himself steadily repelled by some apparently trifling thing in a stranger is right to give it great weight. It may be the clue to the whole mystery. A hair or two will show where a lion is hidden. A very little key will open a very heavy door. — Charles Dickens
Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not seeking it. When you are not making an effort to be happy, then unexpectedly, mysteriously, happiness is there, born of purity, of a loveliness of being. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
And I, infinitesimal being, drunk with the great starry void, likeness, image of mystery, I felt myself a pure part of the abyss, I wheeled with the stars, my heart broke loose on the wind. — Pablo Neruda
I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life: It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found. — John Forbes Nash
There is a mystery within all beings bursting to reveal itself, in the ones who become quiet enough to discover it. In this discovery a benevolent force shines spontaneously from your presence towards all beings, and this light cannot help but illuminate the world. — Mooji
Muhammad has always been standing higher than the Christianity. He does not consider god as a human being and never makes himself equal to God. Muslims worship nothing except God and Muhammad is his Messenger. There is no any mystery and secret in it. — Leo Tolstoy
We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery. — H. G. Wells
It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land. — Sitting Bull
One problem with being a leader, is that even among your friends you are alone, for it is you -- and you alone -- to whom the others look for final guidance. — Trenton Lee Stewart
Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing’s broken? — Trenton Lee Stewart
I think when I started to write The Mysterious Benedict Society that I had that kind of thing in mind - the notion of having to be able to solve puzzles and riddles because enormous stakes rode upon your ability to do that. — Trenton Lee Stewart
No one seems to realize how much we are driven by FEAR, the essential component of human personality. Everything else - from ambition to love to despair - derives in some way from this single powerful emotion. — Trenton Lee Stewart
Reynie's fce fell. 'It's not funny, Kate.' For a moment - a fleeting moment - Kate looked desperately sad. 'Well, of course it's not funny, Reynie Muldoon. But what do you want me to do? Cry? — Trenton Lee Stewart
Was it worse for him, Reynie wondered, to have felt loved and then rejected? Or was it worse to have always felt alone? — Trenton Lee Stewart
Remember, children. For every exit, there is also an entrance. ~ Milligan, The Mysterious Benedict Society — Trenton Lee Stewart
Daddy, will you take me to the mill, again? — Trenton Lee Stewart
Why, then, do you think the white player might have done it?" Reynie considered. He imagined himself moving out his knight only to bring it right back to where it started. Why would he ever do such a thing? At last he said,"Perhaps because he doubted himself. — Trenton Lee Stewart
Every great thinker keeps a journal, you know. — Trenton Lee Stewart
Rules and school are tools for fools! I don't give two mules for rules. — Trenton Lee Stewart
She announced her age right away, for children consider their ages every bit as important as their names. — Trenton Lee Stewart
Don't thank me,' Mr. Curtain called as the door slid closed. 'Impress me! — Trenton Lee Stewart
At this, Constance sat down on a rock and covered her face. She seemed smaller than ever now - so small the harbor breeze might catch her up like a scrap of paper and carry her away, carry her into nowhere. — Trenton Lee Stewart
They stared out their window at night enough to know where the darkest shadows lay, and it was to the darkest shadows they kept. — Trenton Lee Stewart
And please don't call me that." I didn't call you 'that', I called you George Washington. — Trenton Lee Stewart
Grow the lawn and mow the lawn always keep the TV on, brush your teeth and kill the germs, poison apples, poison worms. — Trenton Lee Stewart
The missing aren't missing, they're only departed, All minds keep all thoughts - so like gold - closely guarded. — Trenton Lee Stewart
Children are capable of such open rudeness. — Trenton Lee Stewart
If we're just trying to be accurate, then how about 'The Doomed to Fail Bunch'?" said Constance. "Honestly! We can't even name ourselves. — Trenton Lee Stewart
You are the smartest children i know. You just don't beleive it. — Trenton Lee Stewart
Good grief! They're going to call us inside soon, and Sticky hasn't even met Madge yet!" "Who's Madge?" Sticky asked. "Her Majesty the Queen! — Trenton Lee Stewart
Milligan! Come and tell us why you're so dreadfully glum!" ~ Constance, The Mysterious Benedict Society — Trenton Lee Stewart
'Is that really the best you can say? An average-looking boy? An awful lot of boys are average-looking, S.Q.!' And poor S.Q., he just kept arguing that 'this boy was especially average-looking.' " ~ Kate Wetherall, The Mysterious Benedict Society — Trenton Lee Stewart
Something about this made Reynie uneasy. Had he done so badly? Was this meant to test his courage? He did as he was told, closing his eyes and bracing himself as best he could. "Why are you flinching?" the pencil woman asked. "I don't know. I thought maybe you were going to slap me." "Don't be ridiculous. I could slap you perfectly well with your eyes open. I'm only going to blindfold you. — Trenton Lee Stewart
So what's your team called?" asked Kate, twisting her legs into a pretzel-like configuration, "We're called the Winmates because we're inmates who win." Kate looked back and forth at Reynie and Constance, searching their expression for signs of delight. "You gave yourselves a name?" asked Constance. Now it was Kate's turn to be baffled. "You didn't? How can you have a team without a name? — Trenton Lee Stewart
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