Natural Bernard Malamud Quotes & Sayings

But we didn't know anything in our twenties when we were first married. It was all just instinct and the patterns we'd grown up with. — Kent Haruf

When everyone at school is speaking one language, and a lot of your classmates' parents also speak it, and you go home and see that your community is different -there is a sense of shame attached to that. It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different. — Sonia Sotomayor

Trust him little who praise all, him less who censures all and him least who is indifferent about all. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

It is only with hindsight that we can see the paradigms of the past for the intellectual straitjackets they were. — Terryl L. Givens

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world. — Bertrand Russell

Everything passes, but nothign entirely goes away. — Jenny Diski

Now that I can edit the whole thing on AVID and edit the whole thing on tape, maybe I will do the next digitally, because maybe the quality will become less obvious between tape and film. — Michael Apted

We must truly listen to each other, respecting our essential brotherhood and the courage of those who try to speak, however they may differ from us in professional standing or religious belief or moral vision. We must speak and listen patiently, with good humor, with real expectation, and our dialogue can serve both truth and charity. — Eugene England

My conscience is killing me, isn't it? And when you're immortal that can be a really long and ignominious death — Anne Rice

It's difficult sometimes to tell the difference between what is impossible and what is possible (but requires a big reach). At a creative company, mistaking one for the other can be fatal - but getting it right always elevates. — Ed Catmull

I'll take the cemetery," Kane said. He didn't sound excited. Rather, he sounded resigned. "The club might collapse if I go. — Gena Showalter

Some time later there was a song on all the jukeboxes on the Upper East Side that went "but where is the school-girl who used to be me," and if it was late enough at night I used to wonder that. — Joan Didion

People who live in states have as a rule never experienced the state of nature and vice-versa, and have no practical possibility of moving from the one to the other ... On what grounds, then, do people form hypotheses about the relative merits of state and state of nature? ... My contention here is that preferences for political arrangements of society are to a large extent produced by these very arrangements, so that political institutions are either addictive like some drugs, or allergy-inducing like some others, or both, for they may be one thing for some people and the other for others. — Anthony De Jasay

What are you doing here?" ...
Thought you might like a ride," he answers, smiling that tempting smile at me.
"This going to be a regular thing?" I ask out of curiosity as he helps me into the truck.
"Do you want it to be?" He arches an eyebrow and I can't help but smile back
"If you do."
"I do," he says and his grin widens. "I think we're married now. — Caisey Quinn