Leftward Skew Quotes & Sayings

God wants to take care of us, raise us up and direct us in life — Sunday Adelaja

The separation of Science from Knowledge was effected step by step as the Subjective Method was replaced by the Objective Method: i.e., when in each inquiry the phenomena of external nature ceased to be interpreted on premisses suggested by the analogies of human nature. — George Henry Lewes

In what is now known as Bodh Gaya ... a Buddhist temple stands beside an ancient pipal, descended from that bodhi tree, or "enlightenment tree," and I watched the rising of the morning star and came away no wiser than before. But later I wondered if the Tibetan monks were aware that the Bodhi tree was murmuring with gusts of birds, while another large pipal, so close by that it touched the holy tree with many branches, was without life. I make no claim for the event: I simply declare what I saw at Bodh Gaya. — Peter Matthiessen

All I have to do is to look at you to know that with you, I am going to soak my soul — Julio Cortazar

I'm perennially intrigued how people who lead largely evidence-based lives can, in a belief-based part of their mind, be certain that an invisible, divine entity created an entire universe just for us, or that the government is stockpiling space aliens in a secret desert location. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Full concentration brings relaxation and joy. It is the struggle of divided attention that brings a great deal of the misery that we associate with jobs we don't like. — Eknath Easwaran

Today I trust my instinct, I trust myself. Finally. — Isabelle Adjani

Dan Rather is guilty of not being skeptical enough about a story that was politically loaded. — Bill O'Reilly

From the beginning, I wanted to make dance music with a human element to it. — Beth Orton

The one thing that about me, being a healer, I just have a different kind of relationship with people. So I am defiantly a different type of celebrity. — Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

She didn't immediately answer, and he didn't press her. Heart wounds, he knew, made one think more slowly. — Maggie Stiefvater

A third ... candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requisite talent, and would certainly have had ample leisure after 1593, assuming he wasn't too dead to work. — Bill Bryson