"to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right."

-- Iris Murdoch

#Understood Quotes #Humans Quotes #Oneself Quotes

“Certainly our goal is to leave Iraq, but we can't leave Iraq with our forces until we know that the Iraqi security forces are capable and efficient enough to defend the sovereignty of the nation.”

Source : Interview with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 4, 2004.
“If thereâ€™s a heaven for me, Iâ€™m sure it has a beach attached.”
“Ive known since I went to the national team when I was very young that I was a different bird.”
“I could Google image search 'the sky' and I would probably see beautiful images to knock my socks off. But I can't Google, you know, 'What does my friend look like today?' For you to be able to take a picture of yourself that you feel good enough about to share with the world - I think that's a great thing.”
“The next movie I do is not going to be in school.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The last collaborator is your audience ... when the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written. Things that seem to work well -- work in a sense of carry the story forward and be integral to the piece -- suddenly become a little less relevant or a little less functional or a little overlong or a little overweight or a little whatever. And so you start reshaping from an audience.”
“The more I come to understand music, the more I feel like a numbskull because there is always more to learn.”
“No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.”

Source : "A Reply to Kenneth Tynan: The Playwright's Role". The Observer, June 29, 1958.

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