Franz Kafka Quotes

Why do we complain about the Fall? It is not on its account that we were expelled from Paradise, but on account of the Tree of Life, lest we might eat of it.

Franz Kafka

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• You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.

  

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• We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.

  

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• When you promise something, you must fulfill it.

  

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• You need to have camaraderie in the clubhouse. Wherever you're working, be it a baseball team or at a business, you want to walk in there and say, 'Geez, it's great to be at work. Let's go get 'em,' as opposed to walking in there knowing there's going to be a commotion.

  

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• I just want to do my job.

  

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• Having companies like PotashCorp based in Saskatoon or Cameco based in Saskatoon that have worldwide presence but have the head office jobs, the head office managers and head office employees in your local economy are important from a job creation and wealth creation point of view.

  

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• The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.

  

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• I am not in the business of suppressing books.

  

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• Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.

  

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  • Life
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• Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.

  

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  • World
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• We sometimes think that being a celebrity is the same as being a role model. But a role model is actually someone you can touch, talk to and dream with.

  

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• My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joint called Utah Coal & Lumber that was one of only two or three restaurants at that time. Park City was a sleepy little mining town, with not a condo in sight.

  

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• In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

  

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• We are not in the regime of Aurangzeb. We are in the regime of rule of law. When rule of law is concerned, it applies to government, it applies to Supreme Court, it applies to everybody.

  

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  • Law
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• I just try to get away with as much as I can. I don't think that's very radical in the art world.

  

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  • World
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• Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.

  

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• How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.

  

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• I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.

  

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• Okay, so, sometimes in life, I can be a score-keeper - someone who keeps track of what he gives and what he gets in return. An annoying quality, to say the least, and I'm sure my wife has your sympathy, but it's made me highly attuned to when and where credit is due.

  

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• You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.

  

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  • Time
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  • Routine

• There are many things that people do happily that I can't imagine why they would do it... But I have to say that even though I am critical or judgmental of society at large, I'm not critical of people individually. We are who we are.

  

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  • People
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  • Critical

• The Italians have shown consistently that they live by the rule of law. They have given these undertakings and we expect them to abide by them.

  

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  • Live
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• The Greek people deserve an economy that is not burdened forever by a heavy bureaucracy and a bloated public sector.

  

  Charles Dallara
  • People
  • Forever
  • Greek

• Why do we complain about the Fall? It is not on its account that we were expelled from Paradise, but on account of the Tree of Life, lest we might eat of it.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Life
  • Why
  • Fall