Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes
Christianity . . . sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get at those through physical sacraments.
Quotes to Explore
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The main threat to the future of Europe is not those who want to come here to live but our own political, economic, and intellectual elites bent on transforming Europe against the clear will of the European people.
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I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.
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I am not into marriage. You look at all the marriages breaking down and all the people cheating on their marriages, and you become cynical. Marriage is nothing but a label.
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I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.
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I don't think my competition is with the heroes. I don't think I'm competing with anyone. I don't mean to sound Zen, but genuinely, when I stopped competing with anything is when I started enjoying my work, and that brought out the best in me. I'm living in a universe of my own, and I'm enjoying that. I love to appreciate other people's work.
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
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I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates.
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What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
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No adultery is bloodless.
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I played college basketball in West Virginia for two years, and then I graduated from NYU with a sports management degree because I realized the NBA's not going to happen.
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I have always wanted to act ever since I was a little girl. I would put a blanket under my shirt and pretend that I was pregnant. Then, I would go through childbirth.
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You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.
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The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
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If longevity is the best index to measure a company, a basic requirement is the ability of the corporation to generate new and new leaders.
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I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds. They're the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people I've ever met, my siblings.
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Brexit was not a coup. Far from it. In the eyes of most analysts, it was a clear sign that people are frustrated and fed up with the status quo; this is particularly the case with independent voters.
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The key to America's economic future is educating kids as early in their lives as we can.
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The nearest friends can go With anyone to death, comes so far short They might as well not try to go at all.
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I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it.'
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Bush was in a shithole on September 10th. 9/11 was the best thing that ever happened to him.
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One day he went away and I thought I'd die, but I didn't. And I said to myself: 'is that all there is to love?'
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Christianity . . . sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get at those through physical sacraments.
