Murkier Quotes

#1. It is useless to try to stir the dirt Out of the muddy water, As it will become murkier. But leave it alone, And if it should be cleared; It will become clear by itself.

Bruce Lee

#2. I'm not saying this in a condescending kind of way, but it's quite simple: The making of America was a heroic thing. Australia has a much murkier, much more complex view of its history. It's just full of all these open wounds we don't really know what to do with.

Nick Cave

#3. I had worked in politics with Johnson and Nixon before becoming a historian and biographer. I kept discovering these dirtier, murkier threads in American politics that led back to Vegas' gambling interests and criminal connections.

Roger Morris

#4. The Malfoys. The family you can always rely on to make the world a murkier place.

J.K. Rowling

#5. Maybe this is what life is like - we try to see clearly but what we see is never clear and is never going to be. The more we strive the murkier it becomes. All we are left with are approximations, nuances, multitudes of plausible explanations. Take your pick.

William Boyd

#6. I greatly enjoyed working as a freelance journalist, because it gets you out of the house, and it gets you talking to people, but it wasn't satisfying all of my cravings, and I knew that I needed to work with the other side of my brain - the darker, murkier side!

Kevin Barry

#7. It's probably weird to think about an addiction like it's a sentient being, but that's how it feels. Like it's something living inside you. Something you can't get rid of because killing it means killing you.

Ellen Hopkins

#8. Our real power in life comes from our true thinking!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#9. You see, that's what's so odd, how everyone thinks they're normal and the truth is no one in the world is normal at all. Isn't that wonderful?

Christopher Barzak

#10. It is pointless to be any less than all you can be.

Nick Bantock

#11. If I have sometimes seemed to make fun of Woman, I assure you it has only been for the purpose of egging her on.

James Thurber

#12. When you're in Jamaica, unless you're in a tourist spot, you don't hear Bob Marley; you mostly hear dance hall music.

Michael Franti

#13. Time doesn't heal, I had learned, it just keeps moving. And it takes us with it.

Ann Hood

#14. You can't have everything, I've often noticed it.

Samuel Beckett

#15. When we approach love and creativity with the level of conviction that the powers-that-be in the world today are approaching hatred and destruction, then and only then will we have a chance.

Marianne Williamson