Franz Kafka Quotes

When . . . some leisurely passer-by stopped . . . and spoke of cheating, that was in its way the stupidest lie ever invented by indifference and inborn malice, since it was not the hunger artist who was cheating, he was working honestly, but the world was cheating him of his reward.

Franz Kafka

• World
• Cheating

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• If you are a girl dressing up in the morning thinking about the whole world having a point of view on what you are wearing, it takes the pleasure out of getting dressed.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Up
  • World
  • Thinking

• In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • World
  • Running

• All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Time
  • World
  • Power

• Our own CIA has a storied history of interfering in elections. In the late '40s, we shoveled cash into France and Italy after World War II to defeat the Communists who had been part of the wartime resistance to the Nazis and Fascists.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World
  • History
  • War

• Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • World
  • Art
  • Soul

• I love Vegas. It's like going to Disneyland.

  

  Vanessa Marcil
  • Love
  • Like
  • Vegas

• Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • World
  • Country
  • Change

• Scandinavian crime fiction has become a great success all across the world and rightfully so. Sjowall and Wahloo ushered in a whole generation of Swedish crime writers, many of whom are now available in English.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • World
  • Great
  • Success

• Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.

  

  Jack Welch
  • World
  • Job
  • True

• I loved the idea of the Nerd as Hero, which Ghost World also had.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • World
  • Hero
  • Loved

• Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Proud
  • Beauty

• No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you're perceived to be doing, your job is never done. Every day, you get up and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Up
  • World
  • Trying

• I never get tired of performing to people who want to hear me. Hell, that's my handshake to the world. I'm doing just what I've wanted to do since that day I was 15 and heard Lenny Breau play the guitar.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • People
  • World
  • Day

• Whenever possible, I use local, fresh ingredients, just because it tastes and feels better to eat an egg or a tomato or a hamburger that wasn't flown halfway around the world, that didn't travel on a truck and get stuck in traffic jams, that hasn't been sitting in a supermarket's refrigerator case for days.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • World
  • Travel
  • Better

• There are certain places in the world that are kind of energy vortexes, which are phenomenal.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • World
  • Energy
  • Kind

• To grow up five miles outside of the greatest city in the world is a bizarre experience.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Up
  • World
  • Experience

• Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • World
  • Good
  • Single

• The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, 'What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?' And, 'How does creativity apply across the board?'

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.

  

  Mary McLeod Bethune
  • World

• I don't want my kids growing up believing that there is nothing destructive in the world.

  

  Chuck Connors
  • Up
  • World
  • Kids

• My graffiti really comes more from a May '68, sort of Situationist vibe than the hip-hop world. I think a real graffiti artist would find me a poser.

  

  Mike Mills
  • World
  • Real
  • Artist

• I'd just hit the Billboard thing, and I had a good feeling. About a month ago, I received a call that said I was in the running, that I'd made the final 25. So I just wanted to place.

  

  Arthur Godfrey
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Running

• I love Viola Davis. I call her 'Queen.' I think she's phenomenal. She's so raw and so bold. When I first saw her was in 'Doubt,' and she just changed everything for me. Her performance was unlike anything I had ever seen before, and I think she's phenomenal.

  

  Anna Diop
  • She
  • Doubt
  • Bold

• When . . . some leisurely passer-by stopped . . . and spoke of cheating, that was in its way the stupidest lie ever invented by indifference and inborn malice, since it was not the hunger artist who was cheating, he was working honestly, but the world was cheating him of his reward.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • World
  • Cheating