Modernized Geneva Quotes & Sayings

If you must know, my parents came from pretty hardscrabble backgrounds in the southern Midwest. I certainly didn't grow up poor, but I did spend my 20s and early 30s juggling temp jobs and choking on massive student-loan debt. — Meghan Daum

Attraction is instinct, but action is a choice. — Erica Cameron

The trivial preoccupations of daily life are not enough for man; wisdom too is a native hunger. — Paramahansa Yogananda

I wish that food trucks could exist here in Chicago like they do in Brooklyn and in New York, where you're actually cooking off the truck. — Grant Achatz

Permanence has been swept aside by the rapidity of empty images. The pantheon, we discover to our astonishment, is the doghouse of the burning asylum ... We think our brain is a marble mausoleum, when in fact it's a house made of cardboard boxes, a shack stranded between an empty field and an endless dusk. — Roberto Bolano

The question is not, could Utah compete week in and week out in the ACC, SEC, Big Ten, whatever, .. The question is, in a one- game setting, can Utah compete, can Utah get the market share, sell the tickets of one of those more familiar institutions. Nobody knows that answer. — Craig Thompson

Look for God like a man on fire looks for water. — Elizabeth Gilbert

When knowledge becomes formulated into a science, then it does take on a life of it's own, often alien to the human spirit that conceived it. — Brian Aldiss

Wealth acts merely as a kind of mirror to show you human nature at its worst. — Marie Corelli

As far as I could tell, no one had noticed us. I thought this was what it felt like to be invisible, but when I subtracted Isaac I realized that, until he came along, this was how I had always felt. Not invisible, but a natural part of the background, entitled to all the privileges that came with ownership. — Dinaw Mengestu

You are the sky. The clouds are what happens, what comes and goes. — Eckhart Tolle

She wore a pleated skirt, a white cotton blouse, and simple black shoes with knee high stockings. At the arc of each step, the skirt would rise to expose a few inches of her taut thighs. Neither Earl nor Duke could recall what Chad was wearing. — A. Lee Martinez

So that's how it is. Today's the big day." Beckett nodded with a wry smile.
He knows.
He was naked now. "How you want me, baby? Execution style? Or you want to look me in the eyes? — Debra Anastasia

In the role of Miss Munim, I had credibility as an individual. — Tina Ambani

I came to define God by His handiwork: a craftsman who builds the hope of eternity into our genes, a master electrician and chemist who outfits our brains to access another dimension, a guru who rewards our spiritual efforts by allowing us to feel united with all things, an intelligence that pervades every atom and every nanosecond, all time and space, in the throes of death, or the ecstasy of life. — Barbara Bradley Hagerty