Jacob Bohm Quotes & Sayings

A great deal of capital, which appears to-day in the United States without any certificate of birth, was yesterday, in England, the capitalised blood of children. — Karl Marx

How is a juggler you can't hear or see or smell or touch different to no juggler at all? — Tom Stoppard

Of course, to be a mother and a housewife is a vocation of a very high kind. But I simply felt that it was not the whole of my vocation. I knew that I also wanted a career. A phrase that Irene Ward, MP for Tynemouth, and I often used was that 'while the home must always be the centre of one's life, it should not be the boundary of one's ambitions'. — Margaret Thatcher

The heresy of one age is the orthodox belief and "only infallible rule" of the nest. — Theodore Parker

It's patently impossible for a Muslim character to represent 'all Muslims.' — G. Willow Wilson

I often read nonfiction, and some of my ideas begin there. — Will Hobbs

The course and affairs of our individual life, in view of their true meaning and connection, are like a piece of crude work in mosaic. So long as one stands close in front of it, one can not correctly see the objects presented, or perceive their importance and beauty; it is only by standing some distance away that both come into view. And in the same way one often understands the true connection of important events in one's own life, not while they are happening, or even immediately after they have happened, but only a long time afterwards. — Arthur Schopenhauer

I don't hate anyone. I simply block them out using hellish visions in a blind white rage. But if I see them out I'm pleasant. — Dane Cook

Heavy booze is a big time vacation, but you come back with a headache. — Padgett Powell

Grain grows best in shit... — Ursula K. Le Guin

The ego always looks toward the next moment for some kind of fulfillment. — Eckhart Tolle