Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes
Contrary to what might be expected, I look back on experiences that at the time seemed especially desolating and painful with particular satisfaction. Indeed, I can say with complete truthfulness that everything I have learned in my seventy-five years in this world, everything that has truly enhanced and enlightened my existence, has been through affliction and not through happiness, whether pursued or attained
Quotes to Explore
-
Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
Mallory Ortberg
-
I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
Gary Shteyngart
-
There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
P. J. O'Rourke
-
All you have to do is come to Ohio and say, 'I think NAFTA is a lousy deal,' and everybody cheers.
Pat Buchanan
-
But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.
Gabrielle Union
-
I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm always a bit nervous to sing something serious.
Samantha Barks
-
That's one of the things I miss most about Australia - the countryside.
Yvonne Strahovski
-
I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
L. J. Smith
-
You just have to take control of your own performance.
Damian Lewis
-
For me, it was not destiny to make it to where I am now - I thought for a long- time I would become a go-kart mechanic, or a job like this, not an F1 driver.
Fernando Alonso
-
I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
Lady Gaga
-
You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary.
Florence Ellinwood Allen
-
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
Quentin Crisp
-
Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
Laura Mennell
-
I would be happy if people just called me an actor.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
-
It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
Ira Glass
-
I'm going to always bleed the red, white, and blue. I represented the U.S. in the Olympics; I love my country. But the U.S. fans will love you on Monday; if you lose, they'll hate you on Tuesday. If you win, it will be back to loving you on Wednesday.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
-
To make an album like 'Love Letter,' everything's got to be about love. Everything has to have a great feeling when you listen to it.
R. Kelly
-
'The Storms We Share' has been a project that I've been working on for so long.
Tyler Hilton
-
By sealing our work with our blood, we may see at least the bright dawn of universal happiness.
Maximilien Robespierre
-
The only time you actually are a spectator of your own work is the day you read the script.
Antonio Banderas
-
I believe in a world of justice and human rights for all. A world where girls can grow up free of fear of abuse. A world where women are treated with the respect and dignity that is their right. A world where poverty is not acceptable. My dear young friends, you can make this your world.
Ban Ki-moon
-
Contrary to what might be expected, I look back on experiences that at the time seemed especially desolating and painful with particular satisfaction. Indeed, I can say with complete truthfulness that everything I have learned in my seventy-five years in this world, everything that has truly enhanced and enlightened my existence, has been through affliction and not through happiness, whether pursued or attained
Malcolm Muggeridge