Dark Secrets Inside Bohemian Quotes & Sayings

Calvin argues that a sense of the divine is planted by God in human nature and cannot be escaped. — W. Robert Godfrey

No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance. — Samuel Johnson

He had never seen a woman look like that, he thought, fascinated despite his worry for Henry. She had tied back her outrageous hair and wrapped her head carefully in a cloth like a Negro slave woman. With her face so exposed, the delicate bones made stark, the intentness of her expression
with those yellow eyes darting like a hawk's from one thing to another
was the most unwomanly thing he had ever seen. It was the look of a general marshaling his troops for battle, and seeing it, he felt the ball of snakes in his belly relax a little.
She knows what she's doing, he thought.
She looked at him then, and he straightened his shoulders, instinctively awaiting orders
to his utter amazement. — Diana Gabaldon

I might be developing an addiction. You being my drug of choice. Rehab is 'not' an option, my love is forever. Just so you know. — Truth Devour

If you take suede leather and put it on a piece of steel, and put moisture on it, it actually sticks. — Nik Wallenda

The strategy for the discoverers and entrepreneurs is to rely less on top-down planning and focus on maximum tinkering and recognizing opportunities when they present themselves. So I disagree with the followers of Marx and those of Adam Smith: the reason free markets work is because they allow people to be lucky, thanks to aggressive trial and error, not by giving rewards or "incentives" for skill. The strategy is, then, to tinker as much as possible and try to collect as many Black Swan opportunities as you can. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods. — Herman Melville

Every prophet and every saint has a way, But all lead to God. All ways are really one. — Rumi

The first piece I ever collected was a Roy Lichtenstein: a sculpture called 'Surrealist Head II'. There was a waiting list. I remember Steve Martin wanted one, and I wanted one. I got the 'Surrealist Head', and I was thrilled. — Jeff Koons

A lot of harm has come in all eras from people attached to one view of 'spiritual' truth. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

Being alone is almost always preferable to being with the wrong person. — Amy Dickinson

Enron would keep its unearned windfall, generated solely because David Duncan didn't know what he was doing. — Kurt Eichenwald

I swore that I would not suffer from the world's grief and the world's stupidity and cruelty and injustice and I made my heart as hard in endurance as the nether millstone and my mind as a polished surface of steel. I no longer suffered, but enjoyment had passed away from me. — Sri Aurobindo

It seems everyone in Hollywood is getting pinched, lifted and pulled. I'm looking weird because I'm not. — Robert Redford