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Iris Murdoch Quotes

We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: irish
Birth: July 15, 1919 - February 8, 1999

Topics

Future Present Better See Terrible

I want to make sure that, not only in the Republican Party but in the body politic as a whole, people are aware of threats that remain to the United States.

People Body Party Want Republican

I grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, I was expected to go to church on Sunday. It wasn't terribly painful. I thought some of the stories were neat; I liked some of the liturgy and some of the songs.

Family Thought Church Sunday Go Up

According to the Stoics, all vice was resolvable into folly: according to the Christian principle, it is all the effect of weakness.

John Quincy Adams

Weakness Christian Vice Principle

With almost no exceptions, art by men is much more expensive than art by women. Even great women artists, like Louise Bourgeois and Lee Krasner, are only fully embraced very late in their career.

Women Great Art Men Career Late

I tell my writing students that everything is material; just pay attention.

Writing Attention Pay Attention Pay

I don't look forward to a time when every politician, every legislator goes to Washington absolutely committed to an extreme point of view. Elected representatives are sent to Washington to compromise, not to never compromise.

Lloyd Blankfein

Time Forward Compromise View Look

Most of the population cannot afford a private driver. What we're doing is relentlessly innovating to bring the price point down.

Doing Down Price Point Bring Driver

Some people say there was no jazz tenor before me. All I know is I just had a way of playing and I didn't think in terms of any other instrument but the tenor.

Coleman Hawkins

People Me Think Know Say Jazz

I often get recognized on the street.

Street Get Recognized Often

Americans generally regard themselves as belonging to an exceptional nation. And in terms of living in a religiously tolerant and enormously diverse country, Americans can certainly take some justified pride.

Pride Country Belonging Living Take

I don't mean to say it's not fresh on the space station, but there's nothing like new, cold air coming into the capsule.

Space Cold New Say Nothing Mean

Choose your love, Love your choice.

Thomas S. Monson

Love Choose Choice Your

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