Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes
In the end, coming to faith remains for all a sense of homecoming, of picking up the threads of a lost life, of responding to a bell that had long been ringing, of taking a place at a table that had long been vacant.
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More than once, I've wished my real life had a delete key.
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Your friends will be as careless with your life as they are with their own.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, inner life in which freedom lives. In which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
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Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.
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To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
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I've been through plenty in my life where I've really had to focus on the day ahead... because, as I know, the future is, you know, whatever the future is... Once you've stared mortality that hard in the face, you really seize the day.
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Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.
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I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
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My life as Mrs. Leo Durocher and baseball come first.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its own will, the assassination of the people will continue.
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It's funny - I read that women look to chiseled-faced guys for one-night stands, and to round-faced guys for marriage. When I'm rounder in the face, I like to say, 'This is my long-term look.' Or 'This is my wife-and-kids look right here.'
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You get to bring your own sound system when you play an arena, all the lights and visual stuff, which I think is really cool. There's something about those old arenas, where it feels larger than life.
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I've never judged anybody by how they look or how they dress. I basically judge them on their character. And that's how I lead my own life.
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I was a wayward child, very passionate and very determined. If I made up my mind to do something, there was no stopping me.
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I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don't have to study people who came before you. You don't have to mimic anybody. You just have a gut feeling inside, an instinct that tells you what's right for you, and you can't do it in any other way.
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Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
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When my turn comes I propose to take my lethal capsule comfortably in bed at home and preferably on my own.
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The same camera that photographs a murder scene can photograph a beautiful society affair at a big hotel.
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If we wanted to make money we would have become lawyers or doctors or stuff like that.
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I am very fond of the modest manner of life of those solitary owners of remote villages, who in Little Russia are commonly called "old-fashioned," who are like tumbledown picturesque little houses, delightful in their simplicity and complete unlikeness to the new smooth buildings whose walls have not yet been discolored by the rain, whose roofs are not yet covered with green lichen, and whose porch does not display its bricks through the peeling stucco.
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Even the holy men who lived before the coming of Christ understood that God had in mind plans of peace for the human race.
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In the end, coming to faith remains for all a sense of homecoming, of picking up the threads of a lost life, of responding to a bell that had long been ringing, of taking a place at a table that had long been vacant.
