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I don't take much stock of detectives in novels - chaps that do things and never let you see how they do them. That's just inspiration: not business.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
The conduct of the criminal investigation has been left in the experienced hands of Inspector Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, who is following up the clues with his accustomed energy and sagacity.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Think that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
God gives us just enough evidence so that those who want him can have him. Those who want to follow the clues will.
- Lee Strobel
Only in a world where faith is difficult can faith exist. I don't have faith in two plus two equals four or in the noonday sun. Those are beyond question. But Scripture describes God as a hidden God. You have to make an effort of faith to find him. There are clues you can follow.
- Lee Strobel
God gives us just enough evidence so that those who want him can have him. Those who want to follow the clues will. "The Bible says, 'Seek and you shall find.'9 It doesn't say everybody will find him; it doesn't say nobody will find him. Some will find. Who? Those who seek. Those whose hearts are set on finding him and who follow the clues.
- Lee Strobel
Success leaves clues, Proximity is power. Love your family, CHOOSE your peers.
- Tony Robbins
Our present world contains clues...to another world-a world which we can begin to experience now, but will only know in all its fullness at the end of things.
- Alister McGrath
My idea is that Miss Vane didn't do it, said Wimsey. I dare say that's an idea which has already occurred to you, but with the weight of my great mind behind it, no doubt it strikes the imagination more forcibly.
- Dorothy Sayers
I say, Parker, these are funny cases, ain't they? Every line of inquiry seems to peter out. It's awfully exciting up to a point, you know, and then nothing comes of it. It's like rivers getting lost in the sand.
- Dorothy Sayers
to tell the reader what the detective has observed and deduced — but to make the observations and deductions turn out to be incorrect, thus leading up to a carefully manufactured surprise packet in the last chapter.
- Dorothy Sayers