"We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers."

-- Bernard Malamud

#World Quotes #Stranger Quotes #Human Relations Quotes

“The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.”
“[The scientist] believes passionately in facts, in measured facts. He believes there are no bad facts, that all facts are good facts, though they may be facts about bad things, and his intellectual satisfaction can come only from the acquisition of accurately known facts, from their organization into a body of knowledge, in which the inter-relationship of the measured facts is the dominant consideration.”
“We had already beaten them 4-0 and 7-0 earlier this season, so we knew we were in for a really tough game today.”
“I'm a darned good listener.”
“In some ways more painful is the fact that their experience appears to be fading from the collective memory of humankind. Having never experienced an atomic bombing, the vast majority around the world can only vaguely imagine such horror, and these days, John Hersey's Hiroshima and Jonathan Schell's The Fate of the Earth are all but forgotten. As predicted by the saying, 'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,' the probability that nuclear weapons will be used and the danger of nuclear war are increasing.”
“After surviving the tsunami in Sri Lanka and facing that moment where I was not sure if I would live to see the next, I learned all that matters is now.”
“Action creates/a taste/for itself.”

Source : Kay Ryan (2010). “The Best of It: New and Selected Poems”, p.164, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“When your perspective is preloaded with the Word of God, lies lose their power over your life.”

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