Murray Kempton Quotes

People change,' she said 'Oh, no they don't. Look at me. I've never changed. It's like those sticks of rock: bite it all the way down, you'll still read Brighton. That's human nature.

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them.

We can never see who someone really is underneath the skin.

Our deep desires define us, really.

No matter what, if I'm playing or not playing, I'm still going to be the same person, be that leader.

The germs of all things are in every heart, and the greatest criminals as well as the greatest heroes are but different modes of ourselves.

Is not life exactly what it ought to be, in a certain sense? Isn't it only the naive who find all of this baffling? If you've a notion of what man's heart is, wouldn't you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth to build a civilization is simply man's frantic and frightened attempt to hide himself from himself?

The human heart is a factory of idols...Everyon e of us is, from his mother's womb, expert in inventing idols.

Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?

My Christian faith is at the very heart of who I am.

No matter where you go you are what you are player and you can try to change but that's just the top layer man you was who you was before you got here

Each thing lives according to its kind; the heart by love, the intellect by truth, the higher nature of man by intimate communion with God.

She waited for the train to pass. Then she said, "I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.

What's more important that spiritual life? It seems to me it's the bedrock of everything essential about being human.

What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.

Human beings are not things needing to be motivated and controlled; they are four dimensional - body, mind, heart, and spirit.

Is man, indeed, a walrus at heart?

The priests and the scientists are right about one thing: At our heart, at our base, we are no better than animals.

We have hearts within, Warm, live, improvident, indecent hearts.

You're just trying on different identities, like everyone in those Shakespeare plays. And the people we pretend at, they're already in us. That's why we pretend them in the first place.

We can't love our neighbors till we know how crooked their hearts are.

Man is concentric: you have to take fold after fold off of him before you get to the centre of his personality. You must get below his animal nature, habits, customs, affections, daily life, and sometimes go away down into the heart of the man, before you know what is really in him. But when you get into the last core of these concentric rings of personality you find a sense of the infinite-a consciousness of immortality linked to something higher and better.

Never say you know the last word about any human heart.

A warrior may change his metal, but not his heart.

A stupid man behaves stupidly, not because he wants to, or tries to, or is motivated to, but simply because he is what he is.