My opinion is that the Northern States will manage somehow to muddle through.
It is this compulsion to look backwards at a time of crisis because one's got no idea of what lies ahead. There is a notion of security that somehow it must resemble the past. It's never going to. Just because we muddled through in the past doesn't mean we can automatically muddle through in the future.
I think it’s just as likely that someone could say that this place, right here, is heaven, hell and earth all at the same time. And we still wouldn’t know what to do differently. Everyone just muddles through, trying not to make too many mistakes.
I agree that obviously we cannot retreat from our position in Vietnam…. But we are going to have to muddle through for a while and see what we do.
Sober or blotto, this is your motto: keep muddling through.
The E.U. is more resilient than we give it credit for. We always muddle through.
The best thing to do is muddle through and maybe, over time, create a solution of that, if someone really wanted to exit, the legal basis on which you could exit. Because right now there almost doesn't exist one.
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.
Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.
Love is bumping along together with the people in your life and making mistakes and trying to make them right by virtue of the fact that these are people you actually love; you care about them enough to muddle through it with them.
We re all muddlers. The thing is to see is when one's got to stop muddling.
