Muddlers Quotes & Sayings

Short, successful military adventures are as effective as the Super Bowl in diverting people's attention from unpleasant truths. — John Stockwell

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death. — A. N. Wilson

When your intuition is right, thank the part of you that knows how to do that truly remarkable job. — Laurie Nadel

The very reason for nature's existence is for the education of the soul. — Swami Vivekananda

Life's more important than a living. So many people who make a living are making death, not life. Don't ever join them. They're the gravediggers of our civilization - The safe men. The compromisers. The moneymakers. The muddlers-through.
Politics is full of them ... so is businesses ... so is the church. They're popular. Successful. Some of them work hard, other are slack, but all of them could tell a good story.
Never where there such charming gravediggers in the world's history. — James Hilton

Film can be exciting, but more often, it's tedious. — Mara Wilson

A beautiful smile without any reason is the smile of the existence! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Time, on its own, heals nothing. — Mary Rakow

[Speaking to a group of wealthy New Yorkers]
A million years ago, the cave man, without tools, with small brain, and with nothing but the strength of his body, managed to feed his wife and children, so that through him the race survived. You on the other hand, armed with all the modern means of production, multiplying the productive capacity of the cave man a million times - you are incompetents and muddlers, you are unable to secure to millions even the paltry amount of bread that would sustain their physical life. You have mismanaged the world, and it shall be taken from you. — Jack London

I'm working as hard as I ever have. — James Dobson

We re all muddlers. The thing is to see is when one's got to stop muddling. — Iris Murdoch

Never underestimate the potential for human stupidity when wealth and power are at stake. — Raymond E. Feist

People are the undisputed experts on themselves. No one has been with them longer, or knows them better than they do themselves. In MI, the helper is a companion who typically does less than half of the talking. — William R. Miller

I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing. — Charles Stross

Love, like a sense of humor, is now claimed by everyone even though Love, like a sense of humor, is rather more rare than not, and to most of us poor muddlers unbearable at full strength. — Gore Vidal

There are lives I can imagine without children but none of them have the same laughter & noise. — Brian Andreas