Iris Murdoch Quotes

The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.

Iris Murdoch

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• I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Tired
  • Administration

• In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Hair
  • Flowers
  • Everybody

• Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It's fine - I don't really fight it - but many people use the term 'zen' and terms like 'nirvana,' 'enlightenment' in an almost superficial way. It's not that complicated.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • People
  • Religion
  • Fight

• A well-made salad must have a certain uniformity; it should make perfect sense for those ingredients to share a bowl.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Perfect
  • Share
  • Salad

• House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Game
  • House
  • Film

• You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • House
  • You
  • Leave

• I prepare myself to fight; I prepare myself for myself.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Myself
  • Fight
  • Prepare

• I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Life
  • Style
  • Like

• No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one play will resemble the other except in the premise. Your knowledge, your understanding of human nature, and your imagination will take care of that.

  

  Lajos Egri
  • Done
  • Nature
  • Knowledge

• When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Time
  • American
  • Political

• Many a sin has sullied me in body and in soul because I did not restrain my thoughts nor guard my lips: nevertheless it is to Thee, O God of majesty and love, that I turn in my extremity, for Thou art the fount of mercy; to Thee, as quickly as I may, I speed: for Thou alone canst heal me; I take refuge under Thy protection.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • God
  • Soul
  • Thoughts

• When I'm not working, I'm on the road with my band. Or I'm performing in poetry houses doing spoken work. So I've got another passion and another outlet that allows me to be creatively fulfilled and not sitting at home pulling my hair out waiting for the right role to come along.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • Work
  • Home
  • Passion

• Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Faith
  • Light
  • Dark

• If you want India to lower tariffs and facilitate more free trade, then I think Indian producers also have a right to enter the European market.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Think
  • Want
  • Free

• I wish I could sit back and say, 'Oh, I'm gonna wait for a Merchant-Ivory film to come my way. Or Ivory-Merchant. Whatever it's called. But you just take what's given and then, hopefully, down the road you can be more choosy and only do, say, Wayans brothers movies. That's my goal: to be more Merchant-Ivory-Wayans.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Wish
  • Road
  • Goal

• I look good. I feel good and not to sound conceited I sound great.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Good
  • Great
  • Sound

• I am quite a dreamer. I think we all are dreamers. We all don't like to live a practical life all the time. There is a thin line between our hopes and dreams.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• I remember all the way back in high school thinking about writing books. And, in fact, I've written a lot of stories. I've got dozens of stories I've written that no one's ever seen.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • School

• There's no harm being a copycat. If someone else is doing a good job, copy. It's free.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Good
  • Job
  • Free

• The United States and the Obama administration have consistently opposed the delegitimation of Israel. We've also consistently pushed for legitimation of Israel across the U.N. system. We uniformly oppose one-sided actions designed to punish Israel, and we will continue to do so.

  

  Samantha Power
  • System
  • Actions
  • Israel

• If you want to know who we are, who America is, how we respond to evil-that's it: selflessly, compassionately, unafraid.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Want
  • Evil

• The beauty of the air, from the air... You haven't seen Australia unless you see it from the air. The coastline, the colours of the inland. The claypans, the forests. It's just all so beautiful. You'd never see that from the road. People climb mountains to see these things. You see that every time you take off.

  

  Nancy Bird Walton
  • People
  • Time
  • Beautiful

• Yes, social friend, I love thee well, In learned doctor's spite; Thy clouds all other clouds dispel And lap me in delight.

  

  Charles Sprague Sargent
  • Friend
  • Learned
  • Clouds

• The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Will
  • Comfort
  • Survive