Muddle Quotes

• What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?

  Winston Churchill

  Giving, Gone, Noble

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.90, Da Capo Press

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• I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.

  Harold Wilson

  Middle, Messy, Middle Of The Road

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• Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it.

  Shel Silverstein

  Talking, Speak

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• Only fools think they're wise; the rest of us just muddle through as we can.

  Charles de Lint

  Wise, Wisdom, Thinking

  "The Ivory and the Horn". Book by Charles de Lint, 1995.

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• The Economic Problem...the problem of want and poverty and the economic struggle between classes and nations, is nothing but a frightful muddle, a transitory and unnecessary muddle.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Struggle, Class, Want

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• Adventures do occur, but not punctually.

  E. M. Forster

  Adventure

  E. M. Forster (2010). “A Passage to India”, p.25, RosettaBooks

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• Life was a damned muddle - a football game with everyone offside and the referee gotten rid of - everyone claiming the referee would have been on his side.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Life, Football, Games

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• My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs.

  Charles Dickens

  Giving, Tea, Cups

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy”, p.14, Booklassic

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• I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really - it's so boring.

  Tom Baker

  Disappointment, Doctors, Kind

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• This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing.

  Zane Grey

  Writing, Motion Pictures, Distracted

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• He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

  Iris Murdoch

  Intellectual, Literature, Sociologists

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• I don't think we should just 'muddle through' and ignore the question of life's meaning. Or better, perhaps, I don't think it is a question that can be ignored once the business of asking about the worth and significance of what one is doing - one's work, one's pleasures, one's ambitions and so on - has got going. You can't at any point stop the urge to ask Tolstoy's questions, '... and then what?', 'What's the point of that?'.

  David E. Cooper

  Ambition, Thinking, Asking

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes.

  Winston Churchill

  Noble, Use, Strive

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.90, Da Capo Press

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• Love is fragile. And we're not always its best caretakers. We just muddle through and do the best we can. And hope this fragile thing survives against all odds.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Song, Love Is, Odds

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Jun 05, 2011

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• We live our lives by philosophies, amid worldly affairs and occupations that totally absorb us and are a great distance from the manger. In all kinds of ways, God has to prod us and reach out to us again and again, so that we can manage to escape from the muddle of our thoughts and activities and discover the way that leads to him. But a path exists for all of us. The Lord provides everyone with tailor-made signals.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Philosophy, Distance

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• You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.

  E. M. Forster

  Romantic, Room With A View, True Love Is Forever

  E.M. Forster (2012). “A Room with a View”, p.166, Courier Corporation

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• Нe [Kurt Vonnegut] felt that life was largely a crap shoot and that we simply need to muddle on as best we can, being as kind and loving to one another as possible, right now. It's a pretty good philosophy, no matter what one's religious beliefs or lack of them.

  Michael Dirda

  Religious, Philosophy, Matter

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• You can’t save others from themselves because those who make a perpetual muddle of their lives don’t appreciate your interfering with the drama they’ve created. They want your poor-sweet-baby sympathy, but they don’t want to change.

  Sue Grafton

  Change, Sympathy, Baby

  Sue Grafton (2007). “T is for Trespass: A Kinsey Millhone Novel”, p.94, Penguin

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• It was one of those strange moments that came to him rarely, but never left. A moment that stamped itself on heart and brain, instantly recallable in every detail, for all of his life. There was no telling what made these moments different from any other, though he knew them when they came. He had seen sights more gruesome and more beautiful by far, and been left with no more than a fleeting muddle of their memory. But these-- the still moments, as he called them to himself-- they came with no warning, to print a random image of the most common things inside his brain, indelible.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Beautiful, Memories, Heart

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• All of us are vulnerable, and at times we all feel adrift. But somehow, we all muddle through.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Adrift, Vulnerable, Feels

  "Author Spotlight: Kevin J. Anderson & Sherrilyn Kenyon". Interview with Liz Argall, www.lightspeedmagazine.com. August 2016.

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• When water isn't rippled, it is naturally still. When a mirror isn't clouded, it is clear of itself. So the mind is not to be cleared; get rid of what muddles it, and its clarity will spontaneously appear. Pleasure need not be sought; get rid of what pains you, and pleasure is naturally there.

  Zicheng Hong

  Pain, Mirrors, Water

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• When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles... ...they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle bottle paddle battle.

  Dr. Seuss

  Fighting, Battle, Puddles

  Song: Fox In Socks

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• The TUC's new slogan 'a future that works' sets a profound challenge. Austerity and rapid deficit reduction is failing in its own terms, but even at its best it is short-sighted, muddle-through politics with no vision of a new economic model.

  Frances O'Grady

  Economic Models, Profound, Challenges

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• Many modern novels have a beginning, a muddle and an end.

  Philip Larkin

  Writing, Modern Novel, Ends

  'New Fiction' no. 15, January 1978 (the 'classic formula' for a novel)

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• There are going to be moments of deep, deep doubts, and you have to have faith that your initial idea was good and just muddle through.

  Ann Brashares

  Writing, Ideas, Doubt

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