#her

My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories - not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father's generation. It's a kind of inheritance, the memory of it. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#father #fought #generation #happened #i

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#love #love is #oneself #other #real

One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#get #marriage #public

The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#falling #falling in love #go #hardly #into

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#bad review #even #important #less #raining

In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#engage #example #excitement #feel #got

I am amazed that CNN can't get its act together. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#am #amazed #cnn #get #i

I can go into restaurants and a whole table will get up and clap if they recognize me, because they love Fox News. Other places - or even the same place - people will turn the other way. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#clap #even #fox #fox news #get

I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#curiosity #debts #duty #family #father

I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family - father, mother, children - is fundamental to our civilisation. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#children #civilisation #considered #crazy #family