Matter Quote by Iris Murdoch Download Open image “Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.” — Iris Murdoch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Matter Temperament
Most people are good only so long as they believe others to be so. — Christian Friedrich Hebbel Copy Share Image
Being good is commendable, but only when it is combined with doing good is it useful. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The person who always stresses on being good is really not sure about his being good. — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
It's easy to be good when things are great; it's tough to be good when they're not. — Jon Taffer Copy Share Image
Being good is something that one must choose over and over again, every day, throughout the day, for the rest of one’s life. — Cate Tiernan Copy Share Image
Good is towing the line, being behaved, being quiet, being passive, fitting in, being liked, and great is being messy, having a belly, speaking… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Some people are just naturally good. I always found ways to become good. — Rulon Gardner Copy Share Image
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the time.” — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. in the middle they are acted. this is why all the… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
I have used the word "attention," which I borrow from Simone Weil, to express the idea of a just and loving gaze directed upon… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
being homosexual doesn't determine a man's whole character any more than being heterosexual does. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“Oh if only I could take my mother away and never know of these things again. But it was impossible, the machine would go… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
When you step out and do a song in a musical, the easier thing to do is make it funny. But when those transitions… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence. — Brian Herbert Copy Share Image
My only close-to-game-plan is to follow good writing. If the writing is in TV or if it's in theater or in film, that's it.… — Adam Driver Copy Share Image
I've always been of the idea that is doesn't really matter where you are geographically - with 'Lonerism,' we made half the album in… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
Personally, I prefer contemporary films, but the market calls for more period choices, especially since China opened up a cinema market in Hong Kong.… — Donnie Yen Copy Share Image
You need to remind people that you vote, you matter, and that they can't succeed without your help. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I happen to think it's the politics that makes you electable, but the reason for that is politicians sometimes talk about electability as if… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
I think everyone will agree that it doesn't matter how we get to an international tournament. We are going to do whatever it takes. — John McGinn Copy Share Image
“Which people take the time to care for their souls, these days? I reckon not many. But...hear this: I think that maybe in our… — Susan Fletcher Copy Share Image
