“It's important to have your private enjoyments because sometimes that's all we have.”

—  Kay Ryan

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "It's important to have your private enjoyments because sometimes that's all we have." by Kay Ryan?
Kay Ryan photo
Kay Ryan8
American poet 1945

Related quotes

“After all these years I had the privilege of naming my private part, because we all have nicknames. So I named my private part Pride. It's not much, but at least I have my Pride.”

Jay London (1966) American comedian

One-liners

Javier Marías photo

“Sometimes it's impossible to explain the really important things, those that have affected us most deeply, and keeping silent is all that saves us in difficult times, because explanations almost always sound so lame with respect to the pain we have inflicted or that others have inflicted on us.”

Javier Marías book Tu rostro mañana

A veces resulta imposible explicar lo más decisivo, lo que más nos ha afectado, y guardar silencio es lo único que nos salva en lo malo, porque las explicaciones suenan casi siempre algo tontas respecto al daño que uno hace o le han hecho.
Source: Tu rostro mañana, 1. Fiebre y lanza [Your Face Tomorrow, Vol. 1: Fever and Spear] (2002), p. 94

Sophie Kinsella photo

“But sometimes you have to be brave. Sometimes you have to show people what's important in life.”

Sophie Kinsella book I've Got Your Number

Source: I've Got Your Number

Rutherford B. Hayes photo

“In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments.”

Rutherford B. Hayes (1822–1893) American politician, 19th President of the United States (in office from 1877 to 1881)

As quoted in Rutherford B. Hayes, and His America (1954) by Harry Barnard. p. 481

Frank Chodorov photo

“Income and inheritance taxes imply the denial of private property, and in that are different in principle from all other taxes. The government says to the citizen: "Your earnings are not exclusively your own; we have a claim on them, and our claim precedes yours; we will allow you to keep some of it, because we recognize your need, not your right; but whatever we grant you for yourself is for us to decide.”

Frank Chodorov (1887–1966) American libertarian thinker

Source: The Income Tax: Root of All Evil (1954), p. 8

John Barrowman photo

“You can be in the public eye all the time and still have a private life, but the important thing is to keep in touch with the people who put you there.”

John Barrowman (1967) Scottish-American actor, singer, dancer, musical theatre performer, writer and television personality

Why Torchwood star and talent show judge John Barrowman would do anything for success, Michael Hellicar, 2008-04-11, 2008-04-11, dailymail http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=558746&in_page_id=1773,

Milton Friedman photo

“Why should they also be accepted by private persons in private transactions in exchange for goods and services?
The short answer—and the right answer—is that private persons accept these pieces of paper because they are confident that others will. The pieces of green paper have value because everybody thinks they have value. Everybody thinks they have value because in everybody's experience they have had value…”

Milton Friedman (1912–2006) American economist, statistician, and writer

Source: Money Mischief (1992), Ch. 2 The Mystery of Money

Bertolt Brecht photo

“Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.”

Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) German poet, playwright, theatre director

“Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important.”

Sara Gruen book Water for Elephants

Source: Water for Elephants

Heather Brooke photo

“This is where we get into the information war - that speculative blood became more important than the actual blood. We already can see all that terrible stuff – we know about that. Let's focus on your nightmares, how all these people might die because the government's secrets have been unleashed.”

Heather Brooke (1970) American journalist

Attributed, "We Steal Secrets" 2013 Movie

Related topics