W.h. Murray quote: "Concerning all acts of iniative and creation, there is one elementary truth- that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. -W.H. Murray."

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
W.H. AUDEN

What is this life so full of care,
We don't have time to stand and stare.
W.H. DAVIES

What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
No time to stand ...
W.H. DAVIES

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
W.H. AUDEN

If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me.
W.H. AUDEN

To make one, there must be two.
W.H. AUDEN

The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.
W.H. AUDEN

A child's reading is guided by pleasure, but his pleasure is undifferentiated; he cannot distinguish...
W.H. AUDEN

And none will hear the postman’s knock
Without a quickening of the heart.
For who can be...
W.H. AUDEN

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
W.H. AUDEN

Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry.
W.H. AUDEN

Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The realit...
W.H. AUDEN

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I ...
W.H. AUDEN

Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shad...
W.H. AUDEN

Funeral Blues

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog fro...
W.H. AUDEN

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, th...
W.H. AUDEN

Now shall I walk or shall I ride?
'Ride,' Pleasure said;
'Walk,' Joy replied.
W.H. DAVIES

Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future...
W.H. AUDEN

For poetry makes nothing happen.
W.H. AUDEN

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed li...
W.H. AUDEN

Among those whom I like, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all o...
W.H. AUDEN

I know nothing, except what everyone knows - if there when Grace dances, I should dance.
W.H. AUDEN

The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews
Not to be born is the best for man
T...
W.H. AUDEN

A dead man who never caused others to die seldom rates a statue.
W.H. AUDEN

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
W.H. AUDEN

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, th...
W.H. AUDEN

The friends who met here and embraced are gone,
Each to his own mistake;
W.H. AUDEN

Truth, like love and sleep, resents approaches that are too intense.
W.H. AUDEN

The slogan of Hell: Eat or be eaten. The slogan of Heaven: Eat and be eaten.
W.H. AUDEN

Base words are uttered only by the base
And can for such at once be understood;
But noble ...
W.H. AUDEN

Follow, poet, follow right
To the bottom of the night,
With your unconstraining voice
W.H. AUDEN

He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, ...
W.H. AUDEN

No poet or novelist wishes he was the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the o...
W.H. AUDEN

No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night.

No ti...
W.H. DAVIES

I love thee for a heart that’s kind--not for the knowledge in thy mind.
W.H. DAVIES

This man has talent, that man genius
And here's the strange and cruel difference:
Talent g...
W.H. DAVIES

Leisure

What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and star...
W.H. DAVIES

What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare?
W.H. DAVIES

Without art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without science, we should always worship false...
W.H. AUDEN

Attacking bad books is not only a waste of time but also bad for the character. If I find a book rea...
W.H. AUDEN

I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you
Till China and Africa meet,
And the river jumps ov...
W.H. AUDEN

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
W.H. AUDEN

Thank God for books as an alternative to conversation.
W.H. AUDEN

The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not ...
W.H. AUDEN

SEPTEMBER 1, 1939

I sit in one of the dives
On Fifty-second Street
Uncertain an...
W.H. AUDEN

The More Loving One

Looking up at the stars, I know quite well
That, for all ...
W.H. AUDEN

The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
P...
W.H. AUDEN

Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.
W.H. AUDEN

In the detective story, as in its mirror image, the Quest for the Grail, maps (the ritual of space) ...
W.H. AUDEN

We must love one another or die
W.H. AUDEN

Thoughts on his own death, like the distant roll of thunder at a picnic.
W.H. AUDEN

A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep
W.H. AUDEN

There are good books which are only for adults.
There are no good books which are only for chil...
W.H. AUDEN

What is peculiar and novel to our age is that the principal goal of politics in every advanced socie...
W.H. AUDEN

A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good ...
W.H. AUDEN

There must always be two kinds of art: escape-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sl...
W.H. AUDEN

You need not see what someone is doing to know if it is his vocation, you have only to watch his eye...
W.H. AUDEN

In the nightmare of the dark
All the dogs of Europe bark,
And the living nations wait,
W.H. AUDEN

No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between fri...
BILL MURRAY

I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we wou...
HANNAH MURRAY

Like most guys, I've always liked watches. I can always check the time on my phone, but having a...
ANDY MURRAY

Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.
BILL MURRAY

Any political party that includes the word 'democratic' in its name, isn't.
PATRICK MURRAY

The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is th...
PATRICK MURRAY

I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.
PATRICK MURRAY

A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
PATRICK MURRAY

One of my gripes about movies is that people take them so seriously, and the moneymaking aspects are...
BILL MURRAY

'Skins' is about a group of teenagers in Bristol, and it's all about what they get up to...
HANNAH MURRAY

I don't wish I did anything differently. The most important thing to me was to play baseball.
EDDIE MURRAY

And I tell you that's one of the reasons why I didn't have the friendships with the media, m...
EDDIE MURRAY

And like I said, I appreciate my older brothers because they would not allow me to win. They made me...
EDDIE MURRAY

I'm now the hitting the instructor with the Cleveland Indians.
EDDIE MURRAY

I'm proud to be here as a man that has played first base more than anybody in the game of baseba...
EDDIE MURRAY

It makes you feel at home when you can talk to somebody and really talk about anything.
EDDIE MURRAY

Today I join the greatest players that played the game. It is a great feeling being here.
EDDIE MURRAY

Baseball is a team game.
EDDIE MURRAY

No one was more important than my mom and dad. I know they are watching from a place up in heaven he...
EDDIE MURRAY

When I signed a contract, I was here to play 162 games.
EDDIE MURRAY

And, you know, you try and preach to them there's more to this game than just walking up to home...
EDDIE MURRAY

For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
EDDIE MURRAY

I learned life from some good teachers.
EDDIE MURRAY

When Ted Williams was here, inducted into the Hall of Fame 37 years ago, he said he must have earned...
EDDIE MURRAY

You win as a team, you lose as a team, you also do so many things together.
EDDIE MURRAY

In fact, in some ways, I actually feel much more confident about the quality of Carousel than I do a...
GEORGE MURRAY

Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to ge...
BILL MURRAY

Caring for our veterans is the duty of a grateful nation. Unfortunately, the Bush administration and...
PATTY MURRAY

For overall value creation, the place for most value is created in deep water, and the United States...
ALAN MURRAY

This strengthens our UK business and adds to our growth opportunities in the US.
ALAN MURRAY

It might have to be pinned, which will prolong the recovery. We hope it won't have to be, but we'll ...
ALAN MURRAY

That was the first time in recent memory that their estimation tools have not captured what is the c...
ALAN MURRAY

There's no huge smoking gun here,
ALAN MURRAY

Kieron is very, very low at the moment because he cannot seem to get a run of games in the team inju...
ALAN MURRAY

It was a calculated risk to play them. And that cause the Newcastle need to rearrange the new group ...
ALAN MURRAY

The U.S. economy was on a path to recovery last summer - but it took a turn for the worse after Mr. ...
ALAN MURRAY

A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human natur...
MURRAY KEMPTON

Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to...
MURRAY EDELMAN

Was I in a nativity play? I think I was an angel; I was a very blonde child, so I tended to get type...
HANNAH MURRAY

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.
JOE MURRAY

As truly as God by His power once
created, so truly by that same power must God every moment ma...
ANDREW MURRAY

We are to be shut out from men, and shut in with God.
ANDREW MURRAY

A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.
MURRAY KEMPTON

I'm a nut, but not just a nut.
BILL MURRAY

I am not a literary man. I am a man of science, and I am interested in that branch of Anthropology w...
JIM MURRAY

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.
MURRAY KEMPTON

Golf is the pursuit of the infinite.
JIM MURRAY

The government can destroy wealth but it cannot create wealth, which is the product of labor and man...
BILL MURRAY

It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.
MURRAY KEMPTON

Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murd...
GILBERT MURRAY

Some people are born to fatness. Others have to get there.
LES MURRAY

People are never free of trying to be content.
MURRAY BOOKCHIN

Humanity has passed through a long history of one-sidedness and of a social condition that has alway...
MURRAY BOOKCHIN

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, ste...
JIM MURRAY

Libertarians regard the state as the Supreme, the eternal, the best organized aggressor against the ...
MURRAY ROTHBARD

Security is still the most important issue facing Washington state residents and millions of America...
PATTY MURRAY

Yeah, I think that's sort of the American way. And it's also the Polish way, it turns out.
BILL MURRAY

In the market, the fittest are those most able to serve the consumers; in government, the fittest ar...
MURRAY ROTHBARD

'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominat...
BILL MURRAY

My only wish would be to have 10 more lives to live on this planet. If that were possible, I'd s...
JOSEPH MURRAY

Violence is a problem we all want to solve. I want to make sure that kids learn to deal with anger b...
PATTY MURRAY

The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it.
MURRAY KEMPTON

My mother used to sit at the foot of my bed, and she would share her dreams with me.
LIZ MURRAY

Ignoring is what you are supposed to do with bullies, so they get bored and leave you alone. But the...
PAUL MURRAY

Life makes fools of all of us sooner or later. But keep your sense of humor and you'll at least be a...
PAUL MURRAY

Originally, Congress provided in 1793 that all foreign coins circulating in the United States be leg...
MURRAY ROTHBARD

It should be clear that modern fractional reserve banking is a shell game, a Ponzi scheme, a fraud i...
MURRAY ROTHBARD

The Jacksonians were not monetary nationalists; specie was specie, and they saw no reason that forei...
MURRAY ROTHBARD

This circuit is interesting because it has inclines and declines. Not just up, but down as well.
MURRAY WALKER

Now he must not go the wrong way round the circuit, and unless he can spin himself stationary throug...
MURRAY WALKER

I hit my driver perfect and I made a couple of key putts.
BEN MURRAY

The teams that have beat us out, Santa Margarita and Palm Desert, we beat both this year. Hopefully ...
BEN MURRAY

It was pretty cool, especially how we won it, tying the first time and winning by one this time.
BEN MURRAY

You can use it more than one time and just replace the roll when it runs out. It picks up all the ha...
BEN MURRAY

It's an exciting new frontier as a market and as a medium to showcase these films.
BEN MURRAY

A robber who justified his theft by saying that he really helped his victims, by his spending giving...
MURRAY ROTHBARD

There's only a couple times when fame is ever helpful. Sometimes you can get into a restaurant w...
BILL MURRAY

Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes. A few bear fruit in happiness; the others go awry. But ...
GILBERT MURRAY

If government wishes to see a depression ended as quickly as possible and the economy returned to no...
MURRAY ROTHBARD

It is human nature that when you see something work well, you do more of it. If, in its ceaseless qu...
MURRAY ROTHBARD

I like playing against serve-and-volleyers because returning is one of my best things that I do on t...
ANDY MURRAY

I wasn't feeling that great towards the end of the first set,
ANDY MURRAY

Tim has been one of the best or most consistent players of the last decade and to win against someon...
ANDY MURRAY

It's the biggest moment in my life in tennis so far. I got a little too nervous but I managed to com...
ANDY MURRAY

It's difficult to look at this game. It's totally difficult to see how we played with such a lack of...
ANDY MURRAY

We certainly had our chances to win the hockey game in the third period and in overtime.
ANDY MURRAY

They played an intense game, but we certainly had a high intensity level, too. We're disappointed to...
ANDY MURRAY

You guys are expecting me to win matches like this. The guy is ranked 20 places in front of me, is a...
ANDY MURRAY

He is all about substance, character and determination.
ANDY MURRAY

We played solid tonight. We knew the Bruins would be aggressive tonight after their game against San...
ANDY MURRAY

With 'Carousel' I had an idea and it all came out quickly.
GEORGE MURRAY

By the 1890s, the leading Wall Street bankers were becoming increasingly disgruntled with their own ...
MURRAY ROTHBARD

We are marching to defend our civil liberties which are under attack and to show our solidarity with...
ANDREW MURRAY

I'm not expected to win, but if I play like I did today I think I've got a very good chance. I would...
ANDREW MURRAY

He has a game plan that is impressive and qualities that will suit hard courts.
ANDREW MURRAY

I will have to make sure that I don't go for too much, too early, but instead wait for the right opp...
ANDREW MURRAY

Every single person in Britain is so negative about the young players. All they are waiting to do is...
ANDREW MURRAY

I think it takes a while to get the respect because, obviously, I'm still not inside the top 100, .....
ANDREW MURRAY

I didn't play that great today. I think that on the big points, I played well. On the smaller points...
ANDREW MURRAY

A readiness to believe every promise implicitly, to obey every command unhesitatingly, to stand perf...
ANDREW MURRAY

If there was a picture of the girl in there with the thong and she is nice then that would be better...
ANDREW MURRAY

Beware in your prayer, above everything, of limiting God, not only by unbelief, but by fancying that...
ANDREW MURRAY

Weak men cannot handle power. It will either crush them, or they will use it to crush others
JOCELYN MURRAY

I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of eleme...
JOE MURRAY

I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of eleme...
JOSEPH MURRAY

Last year, we introduced DING! for Windows and immediately heard from our growing number of Customer...
ANNE MURRAY

It's been our desire from the first discussion of this product to have a Mac version of [Ding].
ANNE MURRAY

If I can make 10 calls to find something out for one person, I don't mind because it saves them from...
ANNE MURRAY

It's just a wonderful blend of your faith and nursing practice. If you think about your health and y...
ANNE MURRAY

If he was an employee, we can't take any action, ... If you want to fuss about him being an employee...
ANNE MURRAY

"I often think that perhaps the reason I became a successful singer was that, as a kid, I could neve...
ANNE MURRAY

I came to believe...that it is vital to transform the world by changing the way people treat each ot...
ANNE MURRAY

That belt got loose. That buckle (mark) lasted until December. He whipped first and talked later.
ANNE MURRAY

About 75 miles east of Boston they started getting smoke in the cockpit.
ARLENE MURRAY

The New York-New Jersey metro area is a very busy airspace, but it's a very safe airspace.
ARLENE MURRAY

This announcement is not in response to the union's press conference. This is an announcement we'd b...
ARLENE MURRAY

They worked through the night to install the antenna.
ARLENE MURRAY

The program office has been working on this for the past several months.
ARLENE MURRAY

It is scheduled to take effect.
ARLENE MURRAY

This is very rare. Occasionally, about two or three times a year, we get calls about smaller pieces ...
ARLENE MURRAY

The air traffic operation continues to run smoothly, even though we are experiencing delays in the s...
ARLENE MURRAY

A flock of geese can cause the problem, but this seems to be recurring. It's not a common problem. W...
ARLENE MURRAY

We basically slowed the system down a little bit until we can correct the problem.
ARLENE MURRAY

It's a bit of a crapshoot out there with young writers right now anyway.
GEORGE MURRAY

Shortly after I turned 13, Child Welfare took me into care. I was sent to a residential centre where...
LIZ MURRAY

Parties are only bad when a fight breaks out, when men fight over women or vice versa. Someone takes...
BILL MURRAY

I really hate being recognised. I'm quite a shy person, and I'm not very good at talking to ...
HANNAH MURRAY

In his second Inaugural Address, on March 5, 1821, Monroe admitted at last to a general depression o...
MURRAY ROTHBARD

I'm a real nature lover, so whenever possible, I like to get to the beach or get to a forest or ...
MURRAY BARTLETT

The trend of all knowledge at the present is to specialize, but archaeology has in it all the qualit...
MARGARET MURRAY

It's the best time ever to be a doctor because you can heal and treat conditions that were untre...
JOSEPH MURRAY

Getting married is great, and I feel really good away from the court, and my private life and stuff ...
ANDY MURRAY

People say I'm difficult and sometimes that's a badge of honour.
BILL MURRAY

While other individuals or institutions obtain their income by production of goods and services and ...
MURRAY ROTHBARD

The juke joint, the honky tonk, and the ballroom also represent one more thing, anthropologically sp...
ALBERT MURRAY

Golf was my first glimpse of comedy. I was a caddy when I was a kid. I was on the golf course rather...
BILL MURRAY

Eight minutes past the hour here in Belgium - and presumably eight minutes past the hour everywhere ...
MURRAY WALKER

While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucil...
BILL MURRAY

If I had a magic wand, I would live in a building in New York, big enough so my friends, my family c...
LIZ MURRAY

Turns out you have a really fun time if you go to work every day and focus on being silly and funny ...
HANNAH MURRAY

There aren't many downsides to being rich, other than paying taxes and having relatives asking f...
BILL MURRAY

I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See i...
BILL MURRAY

Concerning all acts of iniative and creation, there is one elementary truth- that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. -W.H. Murray.

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Concerning all acts of iniative and creation, there is one elementary truth- that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. -W.H. Murray.

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