Ain Rend Quotes & Sayings

I believed we could know what was happening to us. We were not excluded from our own lives. That is not my head on someone else's body in the photograph that's introduced as evidence. I didn't believe that nations play-act on a grand scale. I lived in the real. — Don DeLillo

To those we love best we say the least — John Ray

Why do people often feel bad in good environments and good in bad environments? Why did Mother Teresa think that affluent Westerners often seemed poorer than the Calcutta poor, the poorest of the poor? The paradox comes to pass because the impoverishments and enrichments of a self in a world are not necessarily the same as the impoverishments and enrichments of an organism in an environment. — Walker Percy

God gets the great stories. Novelists must make do with more mundane fictions. — Richard Flanagan

Or she may accept, as appearances would sometimes lead us to believe, not the male which is the most attractive to her, but the one which is the least distasteful. — Charles Darwin

Anything is possible if you wish hard enough. — James M. Barrie

Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

I think that we have to be constantly asking ourselves, 'How do we calculate the risk?' And sometimes we don't calculate it correctly; we either overstate it or understate it. — Hillary Clinton

It's that heart of gold, and stardust shine that makes you beautiful. — R.M. Broderick