Michael Ryan Quotes
The problem in society we have at the moment is that everyone is afraid of making a mistake. Everyone is afraid of the consequence of error.
Michael Ryan
Quotes to Explore
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A person who is transformed by the instructions of a teacher, devotes himself to study, and abides by ritual and rightness may become a noble person, while one who follows his nature and emotions, is content to give free play to his passions, and abandons ritual and rightness is a lesser person.
Xun Kuang
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Animals, these beings trappedAs I am trapped but not, themselves, the trap,Aging, but without knowledge of their age,Kept safe here, knowing not of death, for death- Oh, bars of my own body, open, open!The world goes by my cage and never sees me.
Randall Jarrell
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She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.
Kate Chopin
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Righteousness cannot be born until self-righteousness is dead.
Bertrand Russell
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The watchers below pulled in their breath all at once. The air felt suddenly shared. The man above was a word they seemed to know, though they had not heard it before.
Colum McCann
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It is best to marry for purely selfish reasons.
Anita Brookner
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I just never count on anything. You can't.
Laeta Kalogridis
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A job is just a job at the end of the day, and work sometimes comes from the most unlikely places.
Dan Bucatinsky
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Can't is the word that is foe to ambition,An enemy ambushed to shatter your will;Its prey is forever the man with a missionAnd bows but to courage and patience and skill.Hate it, with hatred that's deep and undying,For once it is welcomed 'twill break any man;Whatever the goal you are seeking, keep tryingAnd answer this demon by saying: 'I can.'
Edgar Guest
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I readily concede that a prime minister is not required to speak on every occasion or on every subject, but when there is a duty to speak, silence is unacceptable. Silence can be a strategy, silence can be a tactic, but silence can never be an answer to the ills of our polity and the fault lines of our society.
Palaniappan Chidambaram
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It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful.
W. H. Auden
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The problem in society we have at the moment is that everyone is afraid of making a mistake. Everyone is afraid of the consequence of error.
Michael Ryan
