Paul Murray quote: "The achievement of maturity, psychologically speaking, might be said to be the realization and acceptance that we simply cannot live independently from the world, and so we must live within it, with whatever compromises that might entail."

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

I don’t mind crack,” I said. “I like crack as much as the next man. But it’s not doing a thi...
PAUL MURRAY

Mrs. P.? Oh no. She’s the help. Bosnian, you know. Or is it Serbian? An absolute treasure, anyway....
PAUL MURRAY

What I don’t understand,’ Geoff says, ‘is why did the first fish, like the one who started lan...
PAUL MURRAY

When I came to again—parched, pain rampaging through my intestines—I was in my bed. The little b...
PAUL MURRAY

Their faith in him is at once touching and alarming -- their trust that they are safe simply because...
PAUL MURRAY

Maybe instead of strings it's stories things are made of, an infinite number of tiny vibrating stori...
PAUL MURRAY

History, in the end, is only another kind of story, and stories are different from the truth. The tr...
PAUL MURRAY

To hear people talk, you would think no one ever did anything but love each other. But when you look...
PAUL MURRAY

Never frown even when ur sad, coz u never know whose falling in love with ur smile!
PAUL MURRAY

Fix that hair! Close that mind! Repeat after me! Page me the second the old man croaks it! Now, are ...
PAUL MURRAY

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

I only meant, you know, you shouldn’t be wasting your time on imbeciles. I know how hard it is to ...
PAUL MURRAY

On the trail of another man, the biographer must put up with finding himself at every turn; any biog...
PAUL MURRAY KENDALL

[The biographer] must be as ruthless as a board meeting smelling out embezzlement, as suspicious as ...
PAUL MURRAY KENDALL

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

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

The successful entrepreneurs on the free market will be the ones most adept at anticipating future b...
MURRAY ROTHBARD

You might not think that's cricket, and it's not, it's motor racing.
MURRAY WALKER

You can cut the tension with a cricket stump.
MURRAY WALKER

We were sitting there watching the coffin being nailed shut, and what was inside was imagination and...
BRUCE MURRAY

You cannot deny someone a job based on media reports.
BRUCE MURRAY

I'm very happy to have him here. There are checks and balances in place,
BRUCE MURRAY

I was obviously aware of the problems that have erupted. We chatted about these issues,
BRUCE MURRAY

Once completed, it (China's monitoring and evaluation system) will be one of the most extensive func...
BRUCE MURRAY

This is the best venture I've ever gone into, when it comes to actually getting something out of a p...
BRUCE MURRAY

He's honestly the best person I think I know. As an NBA player and someone that's lasted that long, ...
BRUCE MURRAY

We are all serious about our sports, but we are more serious about making sure the kids have good li...
BRUCE MURRAY

One of the best things about running the camp is to be able to have small teams. There's a lot of on...
BRUCE MURRAY

(But) I had no concerns about his competency in the areas of surgical pathology. He's fit in quite n...
BRUCE MURRAY

I have just one black and white photograph left of my mother when she was younger. She was 17 when i...
LIZ MURRAY

While deficits are often inflationary and always pernicious, curing them by raising taxes is equival...
MURRAY ROTHBARD

Effective stream-of-consciousness narration is the product of verbal precision, not just of literal ...
ALBERT MURRAY

I don't know if it was too much sun or whether the players took it for granted.
BRYAN MURRAY

I don't know if it was too much sun or whether the players took it for granted. We know we're not go...
BRYAN MURRAY

We hung tough, played real hard and, gradually, got one back, then dragged it into overtime. It was ...
BRYAN MURRAY

Bryan played very hard tonight, very well. He was moving the puck and he was very responsible. They ...
BRYAN MURRAY

The commentary afterward pointed it out to the league. It wouldn't have been a focal point,
BRYAN MURRAY

We played for the first five minutes in the first [period]. Then we were careless, we were casual an...
BRYAN MURRAY

As of right now, he's planning on playing the rest of the games this week, then we'll look and see w...
BRYAN MURRAY

The penalty kill for the most part has been really good. Special teams in this league, including you...
BRYAN MURRAY

There's no question - our best players have to match their best players. That's what happens on hock...
BRYAN MURRAY

Washington came out hard today and played very forcible, aggressive and really chased the puck.
BRYAN MURRAY

We identified (global warming) as a big source of uncertainty. There's a lack of data and a lot of u...
BRIAN MURRAY

He never really seemed to take off as decisively as he has this year. We can put in a lot more desig...
BRIAN MURRAY

She's a tough kid -- probably the majority of kids wouldn't have been able to play with the level of...
BRIAN MURRAY

The state is the owner. They will be responsible (for the cleanup) before the town takes over, ... W...
BRIAN MURRAY

[With prompting from Hayworth and Arizona Rep. John Shadegg, the House Committee on Homeland Securit...
BRIAN MURRAY

[Congress is also stirring the pot. When funding questions were raised with the DHS,] initially, the...
BRIAN MURRAY

All the fields have been plowed in the United States. If you want to enter new markets, you have to ...
BRIAN MURRAY

It's too soon for that. But that's something we have in our agenda for the first half of next year.
BRIAN MURRAY

He's unbelievable. He jumps up and comes down with it. He's not super fast but he's fast enough.
BRIAN MURRAY

It's a nice coincidence. It provides a nice campus atmosphere. Parents, teachers and administrators ...
BRIAN MURRAY

Obviously a club that struggles as badly as this one on the field for points there is going to be sp...
BOB MURRAY

I don't know if this is a true measurement. We scored 45 points against a team that I think was in t...
BOB MURRAY

I think they're doing whatever it takes for them to make a case for declaring impasse in hopes that ...
BOB MURRAY

Last year, we started a JV program and separated the JV from the varsity, ... I was able to concentr...
BOB MURRAY

I guess the more common approach has been, if they feel a guy has come in and isn't properly conditi...
BOB MURRAY

As chairman, I take responsibility for what has proven to be an unsuccessful and heartbreaking seaso...
BOB MURRAY

Sunderland supporters have been incredibly tolerant and supportive in the last few months, which hav...
BOB MURRAY

The club did not return to the Premiership just to make up the numbers and whilst we fully expected ...
BOB MURRAY

The achievement of maturity, psychologically speaking, might be said to be the realization and acceptance that we simply cannot live independently from the world, and so we must live within it, with whatever compromises that might entail.

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The achievement of maturity, psychologically speaking, might be said to be the realization and acceptance that we simply cannot live independently from the world, and so we must live within it, with whatever compromises that might entail.

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