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

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• 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
  • War
  • History

• 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

• Isaac and I are going to Israel to ride for peace enviromental justice and a safer world for us all.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • World
  • Peace
  • Justice

• The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status.

  

  Ma Jian
  • World
  • Stage
  • China

• 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

• How in the world any one weighing 185 pounds can be cute is beyond me.

  

  Vaughn Monroe
  • World
  • Me
  • Cute

• 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

• When you take the world record, a lot of people are going to go out there to get you, really. I kind of enjoy that. I like being chased.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • World
  • Enjoy

• 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

• My heart is in South Africa, through my mum. My mum being from here, me spending a lot of time here as well, I feel most connected to this part of the world.

  

  Roger Federer
  • World
  • Heart
  • Feels

• Sometimes you do get caught up in the midst of becoming... a product, a brand, and not having a say in any of that.

  

  Becky G
  • Up
  • You
  • Sometimes

• I'm so consistent that my director's cuts are usually 20-25 minutes longer than the released version of the movies.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Cutting
  • Directors
  • Minutes

• Conscious auto-suggestion, made with confidence, faith, and perseverance realizes itself automatically, in all matters within reason.

  

  Emile Coue
  • Faith
  • Reason
  • Confidence

• I know that when I'm writing, I always want to be directing.

  

  Edward Zwick
  • Writing

• 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