Iris Murdoch Quotes
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.Iris Murdoch
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I guess I crave stability.
Gabrielle Reece -
I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand.
Ulrich Walter -
It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.
Saint Ambrose -
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Walter Lippmann -
It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
Walter O'Brien -
I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
Adam Gopnik
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
Whenever I see the Hong Kong flag is flying in the sky, not because of anybody else, because of my efforts, I think it's the most proud time of my life.
Yu Chui Yee -
For those who turn to literary biography for salacious details, 'Flannery' will disappoint. It is the biography of someone who had very little chance to live in the conventional sense, to experience events.
Floyd Skloot -
Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.
Irving Fisher -
I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.
Ioan Gruffudd -
It's no use crying over spilt summits.
Harold MacMillan
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I think humans are fascinating in general. We're so weird. We do so many quirky things, and we don't even know it. There's just so many layers upon layers of nuances in everything we do, and the most fun part as an actor is trying to get into all those nuances, whether they're conscious or unconscious.
Yvonne Strahovski -
While the eyes of the world will be on us let's show everyone that we have a great sense of humour.
Yahoo Serious -
Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.
Barack Obama -
My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.
Kareena Kapoor Khan -
What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.
Pablo Picasso -
I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
Ma Jian
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For me, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, or for flowers or beast or bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly and perfectly alive.
Al Purdy -
If I can make a connection, one connection, to any one listener in the world, I consider that successful.
Wynonna Judd -
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
Maya Angelou -
While the male eye zooms in on a particular element to the exclusion of all else, a woman's gaze flickers from one tedious task to the next, to the point where we can't distinguish between the importance of mopping the kitchen floor and achieving world peace.
Mariella Frostrup -
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
Iris Murdoch