Franz Kafka Quotes

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Franz Kafka

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• I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • Want
  • See
  • News

• He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Heart
  • True
  • Imagination

• In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Past
  • Season
  • Colleagues

• I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Beginning
  • Writers
  • Influenced

• I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Up
  • Family
  • Man

• The special thing about 'Lost Girl' is it can be campy at times, but the show doesn't take itself too seriously, which is what separates it from other sci-fi TV shows. I love that.

  

  Rachel Skarsten
  • Love
  • Girl
  • Lost

• Any story that I can consider worth telling is one that you could tell in words.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Words
  • You
  • Story

• I actually like pole dancing! It gives you so much confidence. I never thought I'd do it, but now I'm really into it.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • You
  • Confidence
  • Thought

• It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginations. It really makes me angry.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Women
  • Me
  • Angry

• YouTube is a problem. It has very big traffic, but it refuses to contribute to the weight of that traffic.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Problem
  • YouTube
  • Traffic

• The working men have no country. We cannot take away from them what they have not got.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Men
  • Country

• Today war seems to have undergone a change of meaning, insofar as it is not a war of religion but a war of interests, not a war of conflicting cultures or civilizations but a war of national areas, not a war of human beings but a technical struggle of machines one against another and all against the non–combatant population.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • War
  • Today
  • Struggle

• Every time that I wanted to give up, if I saw an interesting textile, print what ever, suddenly I would see a collection.

  

  Anna Sui
  • Up
  • Time
  • Interesting

• In Barnette, we held that a public school student could not be compelled to recite the Pledge; we did not even hint that she could not be compelled to observe respectful silence. . . . Logically, that ought to be the next target for the Court's bulldozer.

  

  Antonin Scalia
  • School
  • She
  • Silence

• You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it's hopeless. Time Regained is Paradise Lost, and Time Lost is Paradise Regained. Let the dead bury their dead. If you want to live at every moment as it presents itself, you've got to die to every other moment.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Time
  • Good
  • Live

• 'Tout de même,' said Poirot, 'since I cannot find anything, eh bien, then the logic falls out of the window.'

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Find
  • Logic
  • Poirot

• Richer am I than he who owns Great fleets and argosies; I have a share in every ship Won by the inland breeze, To loiter on yon airy road Above the apple-trees. I freight them with my untold dreams; Each bears my own picked crew; And nobler cargoes wait for them Than ever India knew, - My ships that sail into the East Across that outlet blue.

  

  Lucy Larcom
  • Great
  • Road
  • Blue

• Some of those early Kinks songs, we were barely in tune.

  

  Dave Davies The Kinks

• You have to make difficult choices in your life, and you just have to be happy with them.

  

  Lori Loughlin
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Choices

• In my opinion, that's one of the hardest things to do in songwriting: crafting a song that speaks to you but, at its core, is a simple concept.

  

  Chris Young
  • Song
  • Simple
  • Opinion

• I'm empty, here at the edge of the sky.

  

  Du Fu
  • Sky
  • Empty
  • Edge

• I never knew that the lower classes had such white skins.

  

  George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
  • White
  • Skins
  • Classes

• I like to think that it isn't weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness, a stand against oblivion and despair.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Thinking
  • Kindness
  • Despair

• Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

  

  Franz Kafka