Sphinx Edgar Allan Poe Quotes & Sayings

We know there are certain chemicals that are designed to give us a rush of pleasure. But, one of the most amazing things about being human is our capacity to override that pleasure. To either say, 'I don't need that pleasure right now. I'm going to ignore the craving.' Or to find something else that we find a deeper sense of reward from. — Charles Duhigg

It seemed to be a matter of general agreement that Hardy Cates was born for trouble, and sooner or later he would find it. — Lisa Kleypas

Moving on, I at last came to a dim sort of light not far from the docks, and heard a forlorn creaking in the air; and looking up, saw a swinging sign over the door with a white painting upon it, faintly representing a tall straight jet of misty spray, and these words underneath - "The Spouter Inn: - Peter Coffin." Coffin? - Spouter? - Rather ominous in that particular connexion, thought I. But it is a common name in Nantucket, they say, and I suppose this Peter here is an emigrant from there. As the light looked so dim, and the place, for the time, looked quiet enough, and the dilapidated little wooden house itself looked as if it might have been carted here from the ruins of some burnt district, and as the swinging sign had a poverty-stricken sort of creak to it, I thought that here was the very spot for cheap lodgings, and the best of pea coffee. — Herman Melville

I don't think it's a secret that New York tastemakers don't love my work. — Stephen Schwartz

Prospecting for oil is a dynamic art ... The greatest single element in all prospecting, past, present and future, is the man willing to take a chance — Everette Lee DeGolyer

Oh, deeply vulnerable as a woman - to love someone not knowing whether they love me in return. — Joan Osborne

Acceptance of what is immediately frees you from mind identification and thus reconnects you with Being. Resistance is the mind. — Eckhart Tolle