Iris Murdoch Quotes

The novel, the novel proper that is, is about people's treatment of each other, and so it is about human values.

Iris Murdoch

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• We're supposed to be an example of freedom, and if we are doing things that are injustice to people, then what is our statement?

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Injustice

• I cannot believe how much love people have shown me.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • Believe
  • Love

• When I sing, people shut up.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • People
  • Up
  • Sing

• My dad once said that in criminal law you see terrible people on their best behavior; in family law you see great people on their worst behavior.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • People
  • Great
  • Family

• People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence.

  

  Ralph Allen
  • People
  • Feel
  • Presence

• Throughout his long career, Washington earned the adulation not merely of ordinary people but of the other luminaries whom we now hail as 'founding fathers.'

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • People
  • Long
  • Career

• Coming in and out of Hollywood for pilot season, I may have to thicken my accent or hear that, physically, I'm not Latino. I not only am, but there's another 50,000 people who look exactly like me.

  

  Carlos Ponce
  • People
  • Hollywood
  • Season

• I thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people, including fundamentalists, are quite intelligent, many of them are highly educated, and they should be treated with complete respect.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • People
  • Respect
  • Religious

• I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• Soap operas are like boot camps for film actors, so I really learned a lot. It was a masterclass in working for camera. I made myself watch myself every day. I would sort of try and be objective about it and critique myself a little. There's a lot more skill set than people realize in soap operas. They shoot, like, 35 scenes a day.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • People
  • Day
  • Myself

• It's difficult to tell the truth about how a book begins. The truth, as far as it can be presented to other people, is either wholly banal or too intimate.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Book
  • Truth

• I imagine if Spotify becomes something that people are willing to pay for, then I'm sure iTunes will just create their own service, and they're actually fair to artists.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • People
  • Service
  • Own

• The reality is the world is a really, really big place, and there's a lot of people running around with a lot on their mind. And you really have to figure out how to build a company that can put on a message that can actually reach people and have an impact globally.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • People
  • World
  • Mind

• I like to tell young people to work hard for your goals and live in the moment.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Work
  • Live

• The essence of a person is not the clothing she wears or the things he does. People who love them do not stop loving them when they change clothing or do other things. Your essence is not even your history, culture, race, or what you think and do. It is your soul.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • People
  • Love
  • She

• I usually find myself hiking in a place that not a lot of people go hiking, just trying to find some solitude. I like being out in the middle of nowhere. Not always, but it's a good place to go to just reflect and think, and it's something I really enjoy.

  

  Rami Malek
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• I was a very shy and introverted person, and it was hard for me to talk to people and make relationships.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • People
  • Me
  • Relationships

• I will never be an insider. I want to be the champion of people who don't have insiders and lobbyists supporting them.

  

  Pat Quinn
  • People
  • Want
  • Champion

• People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • People
  • Goals
  • Succeed

• The Bible does not tell us that life in this world will be fair. Evil and sin are not Victorian gentlemen; they do not play fair.

  

  D. A. Carson
  • Life
  • World
  • Play

• I had people telling me how much I sucked and how bad my music was, but I didn't allow that to discourage me to the point where I didn't want to do music anymore.

  

  Jason Boyd
  • People
  • Music
  • Bad

• I know I'm a Son of God, an heir of God, and a joint heir of Christ. I'm seated with him in the heavenlies, but by choice; like Paul, Peter and others, I've chosen to be a slave.

  

  Bill Bright
  • Choice
  • Slave
  • Son Of God

• If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.

  

  Jessica Lange
  • Photography

• The novel, the novel proper that is, is about people's treatment of each other, and so it is about human values.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • People