"... when caught unawares I usually tell the truth, and what's duller than that?"

-- Iris Murdoch

#Telling The Truth Quotes #Caught Quotes

“When you are in the mundane from what is deeper than your self, you realize the mundane to be more than your self, and your self opens. It opens in its structuring and in its form, enabling you as the form of your self to move in the deeper levels of the mundane”
“For an actress there is no greater gift than having a camera in front of you, listening to the most beautiful music in the world and just being looked at!”
“Winning medals wasn't the point of the Olympics. It's the participating that counts.”

Source : "The Olympics - Where Are They Headed?". Awake! Magazine, February 8, 1977.
“To love anyone is to hope in him for always. From the moment at which we begin to judge anyone, to limit our confidence in him, from the moment at which we identify him with what we know of him and so reduce him to that, we cease to love him and he ceases to be able to be better.”
“I can transform my entire life. The universe is an unbroken, continuous fabric within which I can create and intend my destiny.”
“The union of the Roman empire was dissolved; its genius was humbled in the dust; and armies of unknown barbarians, issuing from the frozen regions of the North, had established their victorious reign over the fairest provinces of Europe and Africa.”
“It will not be possible to solve the current crisis with euro bonds.”
“I love Christmas music and there's nothing like getting together with friends at Christmas time to celebrate with music the incredible reality of the Savior's birth.”

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