Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes

St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.

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• Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Live
  • Kids
  • Hope

• We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.

  

  Warren Weaver
  • Science
  • Ignorance
  • View

• If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Important
  • Real
  • Truth

• I breathe martial arts every day of my life.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Life
  • Day
  • My Life

• After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Hope
  • Smile
  • Seeing

• I think it's always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it's very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • American
  • Political
  • Treat

• I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.

  

  L. J. Smith
  • Want
  • Know
  • Me

• The entrepreneurial bug had already bitten my son Ankur by the time he got to college. As a lifelong entrepreneur, I certainly didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm by telling him he couldn't do it, but I also wanted to make sure it was balanced with the proper attention to his studies.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Time
  • Attention
  • College

• Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • People
  • Book
  • Picture

• I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Environment
  • Concerts
  • Intrigues

• Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create the illusion of the character, the part was given to me. But after 9/11, something changed. We became the villains, the bad guys. I don't mind to play the bad guy as long as the bad guy has a base.

  

  Navid Negahban
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Character

• This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Die
  • Cancer
  • Said

• It's very difficult for my body to recover after workouts now that I'm older, so we have to keep them short, which means they're extremely difficult and intense. It sucks.

  

  Dana Torres
  • Body
  • Now
  • Short

• I've fallen in love in my life a few times. It's the most exciting part of being alive - that I've experienced, anyway.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Life
  • Experienced
  • Fallen

• The music of the Clovers and Spaniels and the rest was like candy to me. I couldn't get enough; my teachers probably thought I had attention deficit disorder.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Music
  • Attention
  • Teachers

• It's great living with your best friends.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Great
  • Friends
  • Best

• Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

  

  Mae West
  • Office
  • Reward
  • Box

• People think that every day we pass monumental legislation. Oftentimes, the most important thing that you have done that day is help a family with a visa.

  

  Lisa Murkowski
  • People
  • Important
  • Family

• When memories fade, can one ever really return home?

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Home
  • Memories
  • Return

• Whether it's a popcorn movie or some really intellectual sociopolitical movie, I think to some degree they're all influenced by the social climate that we're living in.

  

  James Wan
  • Movie

• Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Trying

• American education is still the wonder of the world, and we must open the schoolhouse doors, not close them.

  

  Lincoln Chafee
  • World
  • American
  • Education

• St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Life
  • World
  • Night