William J. Murray Quotes
Why is acquiescence to the numerous viewed as better servitude than bowing to might?
Quotes to Explore
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I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.
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I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born here. I am the only former general to become a prime minister.
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My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!
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A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
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Strange – I'm not much of a film person. I love watching films, but they don't stay with me the way books do. Stranger still, because my husband is a screenwriter!
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Well, I think again, the worst part of it was just leading up to it, before we got on set, at least for me... dreading this idea that I was just going to suck and I really had strong feelings about that. I just didn't want to be that weak link.
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I think I've always had to pick and choose whatever I want to work on. If I'm not happy with what I'm doing, it's probably not going to end up that interesting.
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Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
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I'm one of the luckiest people on earth.
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Unless you look like Brad Pitt, it's really hard to have full control of your character.
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I don't want to do romantic roles where I have to lip sync to a song. A role that explores romance on a new level would suit me.
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The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things.
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I don't want to speculate at this point in terms of who was responsible for this.
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In the self-important, Falco reflected, there is always room for a little more self-importance.
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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Lying on stained wretched sheets with the bleeding virgin, we could plan a murder...or start a religion.
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The world is so full of wonderful things we should all, if we were taught how to appreciate it, be far richer than kings.
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It strikes me that presidential campaigns can often bring out the worst as well as the best in us.
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This extravagant dwelling, as domineering as it was distant, brought home to me the intimateconnection between tyranny and abstraction, and put me in mind of John Berger's observation that "abstraction's capacity to ignore what is real is undoubtedly where most evil begins."
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The Anarchists believe in civil society; only they insist that the freedom of civil society shall be complete instead of partial.
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No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what they think you are or what they think you should be.
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The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our gross domestic product, but on the reach of our prosperity; on the ability to extend opportunity to every willing heart - not out of charity, but because it is the surest route to our common good.
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Why is acquiescence to the numerous viewed as better servitude than bowing to might?
