Dame Elisabeth Murdoch Quotes

#1. In life you'll meet a lot of jerks. If they hurt you, tell yourself that it's because they're stupid. That will help keep you from reacting to their cruelty. Because there is nothing worse than bitterness and vengeance ... Always keep your dignity and be true to yourself.

Marjane Satrapi

#2. When you do a job like this you have to like having cold sweat on your back.

John Pomfret

#3. Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.

Homer

#4. When you have too many beers, you become like a control freak on everything.

Dion DiMucci

#5. Be hopeful in every hardship.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. Silence is no weakness of language.
It is, on the contrary, its strength.
It is the weakness of words not to know this.

Edmond Jabes

#7. We call it "Nature"; only reluctantly admitting ourselves to be "Nature" too.

Denise Levertov

#8. From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#9. A son may choose never to listen to a father, but a father, as Greene saw as well as anyone, is always bound to a son, and real disinheritance is hard. Another advantage virtual fathers have.

Pico Iyer

#10. When faced with trouble, never give up. You will win.

Lailah Gifty Akita