Franz Kafka Quotes

Plenty of hope - for God - no end of hope - only not for us.

Franz Kafka

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• At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Work
  • She
  • Earth

• When I was drafted to Smackdown, I was like, 'Hell yes, I'm going to captain this ship.' Then I was like, 'Oh, wait, you're losing your best friend and travel partner and the person you enjoy having matches with the absolute most.' That's Charlotte. We travel together, and she is my best friend.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • She
  • Together
  • Friend

• I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Art
  • Funny
  • Dark

• Indeed, our British friends have decided to leave us - which is very sad for all of us - but life goes on, and the European Union as well goes on.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Sad

• I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.

  

  Fay Wray
  • People
  • Life
  • Care

• If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.

  

  Natalia Tena
  • Music
  • Words
  • Same

• 'Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case,' 'The Secret of the Old Clock,' 'Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret,' 'Flowers in the Attic,' 'Gone With the Wind' - these are the books that defined my childhood. They thrilled me. They made me feel like I wasn't alone in the world.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • World
  • God
  • Alone

• The true character of ministry is a servants heart.

  

  Harold Warner
  • Heart
  • Character
  • True

• Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • You
  • Beauty
  • Comedians

• Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered the element the most beautiful on the periodic table.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Done
  • Beautiful

• Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Spiritual

• Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Good
  • Write
  • Page

• The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Middle
  • East
  • Obviously

• Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Great
  • Small
  • Single

• Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • Taken
  • Artists
  • Very

• Performers are the neediest people in the world. Unless you've been in that goldfish bowl - nobody can judge unless they've worn those shoes.

  

  Olivia Hussey
  • People
  • World
  • Judge

• Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.

  

  Mae West
  • Man
  • Protect
  • Wants

• A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • Something
  • Consumer
  • Sore

• One challenge in this industry is that you adopt a certain look for a movie, and then people don't get to see the movie for a year!

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • People
  • Movie
  • Challenge

• There's always hope... even when there isn't faith. And sometimes, without hope or faith, there must be charity.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Hope
  • Faith
  • Charity

• I always hope people will like me, and I'm always afraid they will think I'm a fraud. I try harder than perhaps I should to make people like me, then it backfires. They think I'm a buffoon.

  

  Jay McInerney
  • People
  • Hope

• There is at the moment in the world a battle going on between those who are pursuing materialistic paths-globalizers of economic growth and those hell-bent on this 'big is better' idea-on the one hand, and on the other hand those who are dedicated to spiritual renewal, more small-scale development, more human scale, more sustainability, more crafts and arts. Where human beings are not just sold to companies and money and those kinds of things. Where human beings have a sacred path.

  

  Satish Kumar
  • World
  • God
  • Art

• The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

  

  Frank Norris
  • People
  • Life
  • Truth

• Plenty of hope - for God - no end of hope - only not for us.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • God
  • Hope