Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes

The "pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

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• I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • People
  • Good
  • Myself

• The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Great
  • Business
  • America

• So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • People
  • Life
  • Play

• I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • Myself
  • Name
  • Dirty

• Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Important
  • Feel
  • Stories

• I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Work
  • Feels
  • Impression

• In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Rock
  • Players
  • Jazz

• No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Trying
  • Ideas
  • Getting Older

• I really don't believe in magic.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Believe
  • Magic
  • Really

• I never underestimate my opponent, but I never underestimate my talents.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Never
  • Underestimate

• If the American government can't stand behind the dollar, the world's benchmark currency, then the global financial system will very likely enter a new era in which there is much less trade and much less economic growth. It would be, by most accounts, the largest self-imposed financial disaster in history.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • World
  • American
  • History

• We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Life
  • Freedom
  • Value

• Focus on remedies, not faults.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Focus
  • Faults
  • Remedies

• I'm self-taught and emailed photographers I knew if I had questions I couldn't figure out from the manual or online.

  

  Hanneli Mustaparta
  • Questions
  • Figure
  • Online

• I had a lot of vocal problems when I was younger. I don't know if it's down to leading a healthier lifestyle or what but my range has increased.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Know
  • Problems
  • Down

• I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • World
  • Country
  • Reading

• I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.

  

  Harold Washington
  • Want
  • Really
  • Mayor

• Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.

  

  Phyllis McGinley
  • Gossip

• Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• When I first started going to Portland, people told me about Stumptown. They were like 'Oh, it's the best coffee,' and I thought, 'How good could it really be?' I'm like, 'Sure, great, uh... I'd love to see it.' But then when I went, it truly, I am not kidding, is the best coffee I have ever had.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.

  

  John Grierson
  • Good
  • School

• The "pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • World
  • Good
  • Responsible