It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit. — Antoine Rivarol
Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful. — Oscar Wilde
Mystery is made a convenient Cover for absurdity. — John Adams
The mystery religions were instituted in order to protect the marvels of the commonplace from those who would devalue them. — Peter Redgrove
A mystic is anyone who has the gnawing suspicion that the apparent discord, brokenness, contradictions and discontinuities that assault us every day might conceal a hidden unity. — Lawrence Kushner
A perfume is more than an extract it is a presence in abstraction. A perfume, for me, is a mystique. — Giorgio Armani
To work magic is to weave the unseen forces into form; to soar beyond sight; to explore the uncharted dream realm of the hidden reality. — Starhawk
Yet mystery and imagination arise from the same source. This source is called darkness ... Darkness within darkness, the gateway to all understanding. — Lao Tzu
Magic is not about having a puzzle to solve. It's about creating a moment of awe and astonishment. And that can be a beautiful thing. — David Blaine
The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. — Albert Einstein
The subtlest of subtleties, this is the gateway to all mysteries. — Lao Tzu
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
The most tangible of all visible mysteries - fire. — Leigh Hunt
It is presentation which lifts the card trick from the level of the commonplace puzzle to the status of an unforgettable and inexplicable mystery. — Jean Hugard
Short Mystique Quotes
The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive. — Betty Friedan
The mystique of the femme fatale cannot be perfectly translated into male terms. — Camille Paglia
I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace. — Garrett Morris
I'm not a novelist, I'm a storyteller. There is no art in what I do, no mystique. — Alistair Maclean
As soon as you start talking about mystique, you have none. — Neil Young
I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern. — Reynolds Price
Celebrities, movie stars and rock stars are losing their mystique. — Nikki Sixx
I think it's important to have mystique. — Joan Jett
To be honest, I miss the old Hollywood way of having some mystique about the star. — Nicole Scherzinger
A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art. — Robert Genn
Mystique Image Quotes
The Feminine Mystique Quotes
Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if not a contemptuous mockery. — Betty Friedan
When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman. — Betty Friedan
If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based. — Betty Friedan
The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own. — Betty Friedan
Each woman is made to feel it is her own cross to bear if she can't be the perfect clone of the male superman and the perfect clone of the feminine mystique. — Betty Friedan
I realized that what I was saying was threatening, somehow, to the editors of women's magazines. That it threatened the very world they were trying to paint, what I then called the "feminine mystique." — Betty Friedan
Women owe Friedan an incalculable debt for The Feminine Mystique. Domesticity was not a satisfactory story of an intelligent woman's life. — Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
It is perhaps beside the point to remark that bowling alleys and supermarkets have nursery facilities, while schools and colleges and scientific laboratories and government offices do not. — Betty Friedan
I've been reading The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan, which is obviously very dated now but still relevant. It's so interesting to see how far we've come and how far we haven't come with all these myths that people put onto women. — Rose Byrne
It was the era that I later analyzed, the "feminine mystique" era, [when] "career woman" was a dirty word. And so I didn't want a career anymore. [But] I had to do something. So I started freelancing for women's magazines. — Betty Friedan
Feminine Mystique Quotes
A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she "adjust" to prejudice and discrimination. — Betty Friedan
We can no longer ignore that voice within women that says: 'I want something more than my husband and my children and my home.' — Betty Friedan
We broke through the feminine mystique and women who were wives, mothers and housewives began to find themselves as people. That didn't mean they stopped, or had to stop, being mothers, wives or even liking their homes. — Betty Friedan
Brilliant. . . . Marriage Confidential is both laugh-out-loud funny and gasp-out-loud shocking, and nothing less than a Feminine Mystique for our time. Mark my words, your marriage will change after reading this book. — Debby Applegate
Mystical Quotes
Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart. — Rumi
When you do not seek or need approval, you are at your most powerful. — Caroline Myss
Let me give up the need to know why things happen as they do. I will never know and constant wondering is constant suffering. — Caroline Myss
Individuals do not meet by chance. They are necessary in the experiences of others, though they may not always use their opportunities in a spiritual way or manner. — Edgar Cayce
Anyone can find fault. It is the wise person who finds that which encourages another in the turmoils and strifes of the day. — Edgar Cayce
Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language. — Meister Eckhart
NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination. — Osho
Authentic spirituality is revolutionary. It does not legitimate the world, it breaks the world; it does not console the world, it shatters it. And it does not render the self content, it renders it undone. — Ken Wilber
When you study natural science and the miracles of creation, if you don't turn into a mystic you are not a natural scientist. — Albert Hofmann
The true work of art is born from the 'artist': a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation. It detaches itself from him, it acquires an autonomous life, becomes a personality, an independent subject, animated with a spiritual breath, the living subject of a real existence of being. — Wassily Kandinsky
Mysticism Quotes
In the days ahead, you will either be a mystic (one who has experienced God for real) or nothing at all. — Karl Rahner
Healing does not come through intense affirmation of divinity, or by simply pouring out love and the expression of a vague mysticism.It comes through mastering an exact science of contact, impression, of invocation plus an understanding of the subtle apparatus of the etheric vehicle. — Alice Bailey
Go courageously to God, along the way He has traced out for you, steadfastly embracing the means He offers you. — Margaret Mary Alacoque
When you feel a peaceful joy, that's when you are near truth. — Rumi
There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you? — Rumi
Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself. — Rumi
Hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic. — Van Morrison
All you may know of heaven or hell is within your own self. — Edgar Cayce
The mystics ask you to take nothing on mere belief. Rather, they give you a set of experiments to test in your own awareness and experience. The laboratory is your own mind, the experiment is meditation. — Ken Wilber
The Cheka relied on its fearsome reputation. Pravda carried reports of Cheka victims being flayed alive, impaled, scalped, crucified, tied to planks that were pushed slowly into roaring furnaces or into containers of boiling water. In winter, the Cheka was said to pour water over naked prisoners, creating ice statues, while some prisoners were said to have their necks twisted to such a degree their heads came off.107 True or not, such tales contributed to the Cheka mystique. — Stephen Kotkin
My English is perfect. I just like to say garbled nonsense to throw people off and keep them from bothering me. Cryptic is cool and it just adds to my mystique. I mean, Cancellara says some wacky stuff in English and nobody makes fun of him. — Peter Sagan
I hate to blow the mystique, but at the time we really liked bubblegum music, and we really liked the Bay City Rollers. Their song 'Saturday Night' had a great chant in it, so we wanted a song with a chant in it: 'Hey! Ho! Let's Go!'. 'Blitzkrieg Bop' was our 'Saturday Night'. — Joey Ramone
All the ballparks and the big crowds have a certain mystique. You feel attached, permanently wedded to the sounds that ring out, to the fans chanting your name, even when there are only four or five thousand in the stands on a Wednesday afternoon. — Mickey Mantle
Perhaps I am old-fashioned, but black and white films still hold an affectionate place in my heart; they have an incomparable mystique and mood. — Ginger Rogers
There is a special mystique about the marathon, for example, because of its length-but that's just the bit you do at the end of an Ironman — Chrissie Wellington
There is a special mystique to Texas. Texans represent many things to the uninitiated: We are bigger than life in our boots and Stetsons, rugged individualists whose two-steppin' has achieved world-wide acclaim, and we were the first to define hospitality. — Ann Richards
Eroticism is mystique; that is, the aura of emotion and imagination around sex. It cannot be 'fixed' by codes of social or moral convenience, whether from the political left or right. For nature's fascism is greater than that of any society. There is a daemonic instability in sexual relations that we may have to accept. — Camille Paglia
Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill. — Betty Friedan
The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that's the appeal of science fiction. — William Shatner
There is an element of mystique to radio, and I often listen to cricket commentary on radio, especially when one is stuck in a traffic jam. — Rahul Dravid
The key to the trap is, of course, education. The feminine mystique has made higher education for women seem suspect, unnecessary and even dangerous. But I think that education, and only education, has saved, and can continue to save, American women from the greater dangers of the feminine mystique. — Betty Friedan
We would take something old and tired and common - coffee - and weave a sense of romance and community around it. We would rediscover the mystique and charm that had swirled around coffee throughout the centuries. — Howard Schultz
The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence. — James Fisher
I'm from New Orleans. There's a lot of vampire mystique and mythology that resonates there, and I was fascinated by it. I always wanted to play one. — Ian Somerhalder
If you've got Mystique as your girlfriend the fun you could have in bed - I've just imagined X-Men 3 might open with me in bed with Patrick Stewart. — Ian Mckellen
Wherever I see some mystique, be it virtue or family, faith or fatherland, there I must commit some indecent act. — Witold Gombrowicz
I probably owe an apology to fans that have been supportive and have not wanted to believe any of this was true. It takes a little bit of the sheen off of the mystique. — George Michael
There is no mystique to Tai Chi Chuan. What is difficult is the perseverance. It took me ten years to discover my chi, but thirty years to learn how to use it. Once you see the benefit, you won't want to stop. — Ma Yueliang
Being a producer, I deal with a lot of different directors, and some of them would drive me insane with all the different histrionics, and the mystique that they carry. — Matthew Vaughn
Texas mystique (has been) created by the chemistry of the frontier in the crucible of history and forged into an enduring state of heart and mind. — T. R. Fehrenbach
Communism, my friend, is more than Marxism, just as Catholicism is more than the Roman Curia. There is a mystique as well as a politick. Catholics and Communists have committed great crimes, but at least they have not stood aside, like an established society, and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water like Pilate. — Graham Greene
In the United States adherence to the values of the masculine mystique makes intimate, self-revealing, deep friendships between men unusual. — Myriam Miedzian
I guess because twins have this mystique, and triplets - I think the normal sibling connection potentially can be very powerful, and there's this idea that it's even more powerful. It really is, not just someone like me, but another version of me. — Curtis Sittenfeld
The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth. — Salvatore Quasimodo
I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closely approximating a religion. — John Steinbeck
Miles got a mystique about him-plus he's at the top of his profession. And he's got way, way, way more money. — Dizzy Gillespie
The Bond was so big and mighty in my career, and it is the gift that just keeps giving. I wouldn't be here today talking about "The November Man" if it hadn't been for James Bond. So, there was a desire, a want, and a need to make this film, "The November Man." I loved the title. It has a sensuality and a mystique to it. — Pierce Brosnan
The time has come for writers to become inaccessible again. The reason is not some kind of 'mystique' that makes people curious (though it helps), but the fact that no real writers ever lay down anything real in public-they work in solitude, they think hard, and their thoughts are rarely nice or 'friendly.' — Andrei Codrescu
The intertwining of corporations and government has become so extensive in this century that the notion of a democratic balancing act has become a dangerous illusion-and one of the cornerstones of the corporate mystique. — Charles Derber
Americans have never quite digested television. The mystique which should fade grows stronger. We make celebrities not only of the men who cause events but of the men who read reports of them aloud. — Joe McGinniss
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