"Every persisting marriage is based on fear', said Peregrine. 'Fear is fundamental, you dig down in human nature and what's at the bottom? Mean spiteful cruel self-regarding fear, whether it makes you to put the foot in it or whether it makes you to cower..."

-- Iris Murdoch

#Mean Quotes #Feet Quotes #Self Quotes

“Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In London it's easy not to be the focus of attention, especially when Sting lives in the house just behind you.”
“We're never trying to manipulate and mess with... When you finish the movie, you hope you did a good job but you never know.”

Source : Source: www.slashfilm.com
“There's no point starting something you don't intend to finish.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The U.N. has been so disappointing to date on the whole Rwanda issue that despite the people they've sent through, and I have no doubt their competence, in the end, the decision is going to be made by other people and not by them.”

Source : "Investigator details charges". "NBC News Investigates", www.nbcnews.com. December 2, 2004.
“I think happiness is overrated. Satisfied, at peace-those would be more realistic goals.”
“I'm constantly meeting people who said that they cast their first vote for me, or that they cut their eye teeth on the 1972 campaign, or that they didn't vote for me but admire my positions.”
“The phrase 'I just turn on my monkey and it makes me feel good' sounds very dirty, but I can't explain why. It's great to try to use expressions like that on the comics page. People want to complain but they can't, because they can't figure out quite what they should be complaining about.”

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