Iris Murdoch Movie Quotes & Sayings

I've never been unemployed. I've never been very fully employed either. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Why, she asked herself, why keep a wound open when forgiveness can close it? — Alexander McCall Smith

That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience. — Alfred North Whitehead

What freedom is found in recognizing that only God creates! No longer must we labor under the delusion of our own self-importance. We need not find our value in people or possessions - it rests in our origin. — Jen Wilkin

You make learning fun. Like a children's book or after school special. Tell me about your ... um, Athenian women. — Richelle Mead

Since we are on the topic of ravens, a collective noun for ravens is an unkindness. This is somewhat puzzling to Thought and Memory. — Diane Setterfield

Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics. — Robert Teeter

I grow grandiose, which is a good sign I should become prosaic. — Isaac Asimov

It has been an assault on her senses: smells that suddenly overpower her, and heat she can taste, thick as dust on her tongue. Not only does she feel powerless in the face of Indian bureaucracy, but as further punishment, the torrential downpours also keep them trapped inside Krishnan's parents' flat. — Shilpi Somaya Gowda

Seen better fights than this at a prayer meeting. — John Wayne

It not unusual for women with anorexia to suffer heart attacks. — Carre Otis

I mean look at all these acquisitions and mergers - WhatsApp and Oculus and et cetera. There's no way that you can envision these tech companies as the underdog anymore. They're always presented as though they were these little guys who you should be championing - Facebook will overthrow the cable television complex, blah blah - but it's more likely they will merge with them. — Astra Taylor

[T]he artillery of the press has been leveled against us, charged with whatsoever its licentiousness could devise or dare. These abuses of an institution so important to freedom and science are deeply to be regretted ... — Thomas Jefferson