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I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.
IRIS MURDOCH

The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
IRIS MURDOCH

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
IRIS MURDOCH

Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
IRIS MURDOCH

Anything that consoles is fake.
IRIS MURDOCH

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon b...
IRIS MURDOCH

The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years withou...
IRIS MURDOCH

In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
IRIS MURDOCH

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitu...
IRIS MURDOCH

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to th...
IRIS MURDOCH

Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
IRIS MURDOCH

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. -Iris Murdoch.
IRIS MURDOCH

The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinpr...
IRIS MURDOCH

I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take sec...
IRIS MURDOCH

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
IRIS MURDOCH

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
IRIS MURDOCH

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
IRIS MURDOCH

We defend ourself with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
IRIS MURDOCH

The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinpri...
IRIS MURDOCH

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

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a cont...
IRIS MURDOCH

We can only learn to love by loving.
IRIS MURDOCH

Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth -- well, it's like brown -- it's not in the spectrum. Trut...
IRIS MURDOCH

Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
IRIS MURDOCH

In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
IRIS MURDOCH

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to g...
IRIS MURDOCH

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little ...
IRIS MURDOCH

Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
IRIS MURDOCH

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
IRIS MURDOCH

Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.
IRIS MURDOCH

Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
IRIS MURDOCH

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such...
IRIS MURDOCH

The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since ...
IRIS MURDOCH

But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.
IRIS MURDOCH

Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
IRIS MURDOCH

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
IRIS MURDOCH

Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, ma...
IRIS MURDOCH

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
IRIS MURDOCH

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's lu...
IRIS MURDOCH

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
IRIS MURDOCH

Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
IRIS MURDOCH

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
IRIS MURDOCH

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and l...
IRIS MURDOCH

I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take s...
IRIS MURDOCH

Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, mali...
IRIS MURDOCH

All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
IRIS MURDOCH

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
IRIS MURDOCH

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively an...
IRIS MURDOCH

Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum...
IRIS MURDOCH

¿Cuál es la diferencia que existe entre yo y estas pequeñas y humildes criaturas? La araña teje ...
IRIS MURDOCH

I hate solitude, but I'm afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with...
IRIS MURDOCH

There was something factitious and brittle and thereby utterly feminine about her charm which made m...
IRIS MURDOCH

Yes, of course, there's something fishy about describing people's feelings. You try hard to be accur...
IRIS MURDOCH

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and livel...
IRIS MURDOCH

Mercifully one forgets one's love affairs as one forgets one's dreams.
IRIS MURDOCH

Man's creative struggle, his search for wisdom and truth, is a love story
IRIS MURDOCH

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitu...
IRIS MURDOCH

Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins
IRIS MURDOCH

One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats
IRIS MURDOCH

We defend ourself with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing
IRIS MURDOCH

I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.
IRIS MURDOCH

But one must do something about the past. It doesn’t just cease to be. It goes on existing and aff...
IRIS MURDOCH

While the light remains,' said Carde, speaking slowly in his high deliberate voice, 'only do not for...
IRIS MURDOCH

Amo amas amat amamus amatis amant amavi amavisti amavit amavimus amavistis amaverunt amavero amaveri...
IRIS MURDOCH

Education doesn’t make you happy. Nor does freedom. We don’t become happy just because we’re f...
IRIS MURDOCH

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
IRIS MURDOCH

... male company, sheer complicit male company: the complicity of males which is like, indeed is, a ...
IRIS MURDOCH

Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved
IRIS MURDOCH

What is more tormenting than a meeting after a long time, when all the words fall to the ground like...
IRIS MURDOCH

Even if readers claim that they 'take it all with a grain of salt', they do not really. They yearn t...
IRIS MURDOCH

Love generates, or rather reveals, something which may be called absolute charm. In the beloved noth...
IRIS MURDOCH

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more ...
IRIS MURDOCH

Then I felt too that I might take this opportunity to tie up a few loose ends, only of course loose ...
IRIS MURDOCH

I know how much you grieve over those who are under your care: those you try to help and fail, those...
IRIS MURDOCH

The past and the present are after all so close, so almost one, as if time were an artificial teasin...
IRIS MURDOCH I'm far from being perfect but I've learned to recognize my mistakes and to be open for a change
IRIS You keep thinking of someone while doing important jobs, you love him/her.
IRIS

As an immigrant, I chose to live in America because it is one of the freest and most vibrant nations...
RUPERT MURDOCH He's an excellent stick-handler. One of the best skaters and shooters I've ever had.
AL MURDOCH I started out trying to mix it up, having some veterans and some rookies on four different lines for...
AL MURDOCH Championship teams win playing defense. We're getting scoring from four different lines, so (opponen...
AL MURDOCH I thought we'd have a good year. We were right at .500 last year on the season, and we got a pretty ...
AL MURDOCH He figures he knows the Murdoch system and nothing would give him greater pleasure than beating his ...
AL MURDOCH Thirty-win seasons are very unusual. You hope to get a 20-win season. Thirty wins with what could be...
AL MURDOCH

Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies t...
RUPERT MURDOCH

In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, ...
RUPERT MURDOCH

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.
RUPERT MURDOCH

I now wear a Jawbone. This is a bracelet that keeps track of how I sleep, move and eat - transmittin...
RUPERT MURDOCH

Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow eli...
RUPERT MURDOCH

So long as I can stay mentally alert - inquiring, curious - I want to keep going. I love my wife and...
RUPERT MURDOCH

There is so much media now with the Internet and people, and so easy and so cheap to start a newspap...
RUPERT MURDOCH

Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian r...
RUPERT MURDOCH

I'm not an economist and we all know economists were created to make weather forecasters look go...
RUPERT MURDOCH

I can go into restaurants and a whole table will get up and clap if they recognize me, because they ...
RUPERT MURDOCH

Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.
RUPERT MURDOCH

I'm not looking for a legacy, and you'll never shut up the critics. I've been around 50 ...
RUPERT MURDOCH

I'm a catalyst for change. You can't be an outsider and be successful over 30 years without ...
RUPERT MURDOCH

I would like to be remembered, if I am remembered at all, as being a catalyst for change in the worl...
RUPERT MURDOCH

When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got...
RUPERT MURDOCH

I wasn't weaned on the web nor coddled on a computer. Instead, I grew up in a highly centralized...
RUPERT MURDOCH

Great journalism will always attract readers. The words, pictures and graphics that are the stuff of...
RUPERT MURDOCH

The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the sl...
RUPERT MURDOCH

The CNN international is a different service - it is even more leftist and anti-American than CNN is...
RUPERT MURDOCH

People who watch 'Fox News,' you may say, and this is anecdotal, but they are passionate abo...
RUPERT MURDOCH

I'm a permanently curious person. I probably waste my time being curious about things that have ...
RUPERT MURDOCH

In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I ho...
RUPERT MURDOCH

We started Fox when everyone said it couldn't be done.
RUPERT MURDOCH Well there are those that you wield and those that you join.
RICHARD MURDOCH

I'm not a knee-jerk conservative. I passionately believe in free markets and less government, bu...
RUPERT MURDOCH

You can't have a competitive, egalitarian meritocracy if only some of your citizens have the opp...
RUPERT MURDOCH

I try to keep in touch with the details... I also look at the product daily. That doesn't mean you i...
RUPERT MURDOCH

In a world as competitive as ours, the child who does not get a decent education is condemned to the...
RUPERT MURDOCH

My worry about the New York Times is that it's got the only position as a national elitist gener...
RUPERT MURDOCH You get days like that and you've just got to take it on the chin.
DAVID MURDOCH

It's been a long career, and I've made some mistakes along the way.
RUPERT MURDOCH

Look, the whole world wants to modernize, and when you look to what they mean by modernizing, they m...
RUPERT MURDOCH

It's a libel to say that I use my newspapers to support my other business interests. The fact is...
RUPERT MURDOCH

If the sea level rises 6 inches, that's a big deal... we can't mitigate that; we can't s...
RUPERT MURDOCH It's devastating. We wanted that bronze medal every bit as much as we wanted to win the semi-final. ...
DAVID MURDOCH Regardless of their record coming into the tournament, they beat the top teams in this tournament. T...
AMANDA MURDOCH We let down a little bit tonight and I know all the other girls feel the same. We're going to come b...
AMANDA MURDOCH We let up a little bit, but it was fun to start with the other three seniors. We all played together...
AMANDA MURDOCH

I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the f...
RUPERT MURDOCH

We do recognize the fact that the share price at the moment is rotten, ... There's some disconnect b...
RUPERT MURDOCH

No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be he...
RUPERT MURDOCH

For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my ...
RUPERT MURDOCH

I don't know what Icahn thinks he's doing. Icahn has gone out on a limb. Even if he succeeds in gett...
RUPERT MURDOCH

No leader will fight for values, for principles, if their government is a value-free vacuum. Moral r...
RUPERT MURDOCH I'm not a bad driver. And I never will be because I took lessons when I was quite a boy. I never...
RICHARD MURDOCH

Money is not the motivating force. It's nice to have money, but I don't live high. What I en...
RUPERT MURDOCH

I think it's too early to comment on that. I think you can certainly discern that we would certainly...
RUPERT MURDOCH

We said it was currently a policy of the board not to exit it (the poison pill) without going to sha...
RUPERT MURDOCH

From the beginning on, newspapers have prospered for one reason: giving readers the news that they w...
RUPERT MURDOCH

There has been no outcry,
RUPERT MURDOCH

There has been no outcry, I've had hundreds of phone calls, there has been one call about the poison...
RUPERT MURDOCH

Should Yahoo have betrayed a source like that? ... I think they were wrong.
RUPERT MURDOCH

Is there any other industry in this country which seeks to presume so completely to give the custome...
RUPERT MURDOCH

It will happen either in the last part of the year or the first month of next year,
RUPERT MURDOCH

It has the fastest growing audience. More importantly, broadband proliferation is at last real, mean...
RUPERT MURDOCH

Hopefully we will continue to improve our profits and improve our dividend.
RUPERT MURDOCH

Here (in the United States), we don't know. We may be forming a company with partners to build somet...
RUPERT MURDOCH

So to those of you who are wondering what our spending limit will be, my answer is this: We have a l...
RUPERT MURDOCH

I don't think we set that figure in concrete,
RUPERT MURDOCH

This is a time of fundamental change.
RUPERT MURDOCH

We see opportunities to participate in media developments across Europe.
RUPERT MURDOCH

This is a strategic move to further strengthen our book publishing business.
RUPERT MURDOCH

These shares don't carry rights and requirements. On the other hand, John's a friend and always woul...
RUPERT MURDOCH

The global media is on the internet,
RUPERT MURDOCH

without paying the proper premium.
RUPERT MURDOCH

sticky, fun and poised to be profitable.
RUPERT MURDOCH

For the second consecutive quarter, all of our primary content businesses, with the exception of fil...
RUPERT MURDOCH

I think we've got to do a better job at answering it. And there's a big job to do. But you're not go...
RUPERT MURDOCH

was committed solely to relaying the events fully, accurately and impartially.
RUPERT MURDOCH

We are 99 percent there.
RUPERT MURDOCH

Israel in the World
RUPERT MURDOCH

safeguard national culture.
RUPERT MURDOCH

It wasn't Gavin we were worried about but Charlotte. She was refusing to appear on MTV.
RUPERT MURDOCH

You can't build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted e...
RUPERT MURDOCH

have started to look like dying elephants.
RUPERT MURDOCH

I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse ...
RUPERT MURDOCH Nothing in Belle and Sebastian has been calculated, down to what we're having for lunch. It was only...
STUART MURDOCH

People begin to resent the rich only when they conclude that the system is rigged.
RUPERT MURDOCH

I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television....
RUPERT MURDOCH

Thankfully, Australia has emerged from its inauspicious colonial beginnings to become a proud nation...
RUPERT MURDOCH

Scarcely a day goes by without some claim that new technologies are fast writing newsprint's obi...
RUPERT MURDOCH I take my hand back, like a leaf letting go. It hurts too much to hang on. So why does it hurt so mu...
EMILY MURDOCH

Somebody talked me into writing an autobiography about six or seven years ago. And I said I'd tr...
RUPERT MURDOCH My emotions swirl like leaves caught in the breath of a dust devil, and the only thing I can seem to...
EMILY MURDOCH

If the head man in a company is not working 12 hours a day, doing things, taking risks, but also sta...
RUPERT MURDOCH I went to a foot specialist recently and she said:
"You've broken a bone, it's healed funny." STUART MURDOCH It made it hard to come back.
DAVID MURDOCH It is hard to take because the chance was there. It will be with me for a long time but I am hoping ...
DAVID MURDOCH We really couldn't have done any more. We trained our hearts out and prepared as well as we could an...
DAVID MURDOCH That's fine. It's what we expected. We get a chance to get our revenge on Finland. We are going in v...
DAVID MURDOCH It feels fantastic to finally get started after all the build-up. We are not quite used to the ice y...
DAVID MURDOCH I'm happy because I've got a great team behind me.
DAVID MURDOCH We are all getting on fine and our third place in the European Championships showed we can play well...
DAVID MURDOCH We are all very well and looking forward to it. We had a really excellent four or five days of inten...
DAVID MURDOCH We've beaten all our opposition at different times, so we know we are capable of beating them on the...
DAVID MURDOCH

We all know growth is absolutely vital to a free society. No one should want Australia to be a stag-...
RUPERT MURDOCH The whole rationale is being driven by the consumer. They want the whole home solution with the best...
JAMES MURDOCH We've reached a point where integration into a home entertainment platform will be both viable and a...
JAMES MURDOCH This positions Sky very well to take a leading position in what we think is a very attractive and fa...
JAMES MURDOCH Today?s offer reflects the exciting opportunities that now exist to combine quality entertainment wi...
JAMES MURDOCH Taiwan is Asia's most well-established and vibrant cable market,
JAMES MURDOCH I am sure he will help us build Sky's reputation as the nation's number one entertainment choice,
JAMES MURDOCH I fully intend to be here for the long term. It is a strategy that's going to take a lot of work. I'...
JAMES MURDOCH My hope and my intention is that as long as the board is satisfied with the work that I'm doing that...
JAMES MURDOCH I fully intend to be here (at Sky) in the long term, I'm fully committed. So you're stuck with me,
JAMES MURDOCH [It will] blow people backwards out of their living room.
JAMES MURDOCH

~In motivating people, YOU've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope,...
RUPERT MURDOCH

Journalists should think of themselves as outside the Establishment, and owners can't be too wor...
RUPERT MURDOCH The things most likely to get earwigs are dahlias.
RICHARD MURDOCH I would just like my children to be able to eat fish when they grow up. Now, I don't think there...
JAMES MURDOCH If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together.… there is something you must always remember....
EMILY MURDOCH

Great personal style is an extreme curiosity about yourself.
IRIS APFEL I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writ...
IRIS JOHANSEN I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' wr...
IRIS JOHANSEN The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound...
IRIS JOHANSEN I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
IRIS JOHANSEN

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

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