Iris Murdoch Quotes

All metaphysical theories are inconclusively vulnerable to positivist attack.

Iris Murdoch

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• When we watch stories, we learn empathy, we learn compassion, and hopefully we achieve some sort of understanding.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Understanding
  • Learn
  • Compassion

• The worst thing would be for a Canada to develop a Hollywood. This is an industry we are going to have to fight to defend. We have to compete now so productions stay here. We don't want entertainment to be like the steel industry.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Want
  • Fight
  • Canada

• I was always very focused on how people dressed.

  

  Larry Gagosian
  • People
  • Always
  • Dressed

• I have always argued that newspapers should not have any civic purpose beyond telling readers what is happening... A reporter who doesn't quickly tell readers what they most want to know - the score - won't last long. Better he should teach political science.

  

  Jack Germond
  • Long
  • Political
  • Science

• If national safety - the ability to respond to hurricanes, terrorist attacks, earthquakes - depends on the execution of explicit plans, on soldierly obedience, and on showy security drills, then a decentralized security scheme is useless.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Safety
  • Security
  • Execution

• Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Joy

• My desire to exit the game is greater than my desire to remain in it. I have searched my heart through and through and feel comfortable with this decision.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Heart
  • Game
  • Desire

• I feel like I'm really lucky.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Lucky

• I like when a guy makes me feel like a woman and a little girl at the same time.

  

  Tara Reid
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Girl

• When you were growing up in the 30s, 20s, of course the 40s, all black people at least in the Washington, D.C., area were required to live among themselves.

  

  Ed Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Courage
  • Loved
  • Strength

• Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Art
  • Science

• A script like 'The Sixth Sense' is fun to read: It's so well-written, and you get a vivid sense of what's going to be onscreen.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Fun
  • You
  • Like

• I would love do a guest spot on 'Castle' because Nathan Fillion is so dreamy, and he and I are friends. And I think we could have a lot of fun.

  

  Callie Thorne
  • Love
  • Friends
  • Fun

• The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Good
  • Understanding
  • Brain

• In 1986, Microsoft and Oracle went public within a day of each other, and I recall telling one of my colleagues that the software business will become big. So I started working with software companies in the mid-'80s and never turned back.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Business
  • Day
  • Colleagues

• As you may know, I was raised in an Italian Catholic family in Baltimore, Maryland.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Family
  • May
  • You

• Cinema is incredibly concise.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Cinema
  • Incredibly
  • Concise

• A good sculpture can be rolled downhill without breaking.

  

  Michelangelo
  • Sculpture
  • Breaking
  • Rolled

• The death panel issue arose with Tom Daschle, who was originally going to be the Health Czar. Daschle became enamored with the British system and wrote a book about health care, which influenced President Barack Obama.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Book
  • Health
  • British

• I love being with my friends, relaxing and talking.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Friends
  • Talking
  • Relaxing

• Our lives will be measured by what we do for others.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Lives
  • Others
  • Measured

• There is a beautiful expression in Nicaragua: "struggle is the highest form of song". I love that. We are in the struggle. It's like a river. Once you step into it you become the river. It's not, you go out and click on a couple of charities that you believe in, march in the Women's March, and you're done. Struggle becomes your life, transforming a paradigm that is based on domination into a paradigm of co-operation. Fighting for the liberation of women, of people of color, of indigenous people, of lgbtq communities. Fighting to protect immigrants and assuring the safety of refugees.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Believe
  • Safety
  • I Love

• All metaphysical theories are inconclusively vulnerable to positivist attack.

  

  Iris Murdoch