Franz Kafka Quotes

'Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible,' she said, 'but that alone doesn't make it true.'

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• If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Man
  • Learning
  • Horse

• The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Life
  • Real
  • Debate

• Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Want

• The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Men
  • Business
  • Failure

• This love is silent.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Love Is

• Unlike some, I don't claim to hold the mystic key to the future. But judging from past events, it seems to me that those who want to prophesy the imminent end of America's unique global role have a harder case to make than those who think we will limp on for a while, making a mess of things as usual.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
  • America
  • Future
  • Past

• We've heard that the hookup culture is destroying us. We've heard that it's saving us. We've heard that it's racist. We've agonized over which one of these is true.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • True
  • Culture
  • Over

• To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Love
  • Mother
  • Professional

• No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Fly
  • New York
  • Paris

• It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.

  

  Madison Marlow
  • Up
  • Country
  • Song

• At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Writing
  • Beginning
  • Starting

• I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Me
  • Lucky
  • Diagnosed

• That was my challenge as an actress: to be a necessary part of the office without being too aggressive.

  

  Barbara Hale
  • Challenge
  • Without
  • Actress

• To me, my business is my life.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Life
  • Business
  • My Life

• My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Vision
  • Nation
  • India

• There are so many people in the world who cannot read English or French or whatever.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • World
  • English

• Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.

  

  Ed Townsend
  • Trust
  • Always
  • Obedience

• It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.

  

  Gabriele Nanni
  • God
  • Men
  • Power

• I have nothing against glamorous dressing.

  

  Dries van Noten

• Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What does not yield to use? How many find that the bitterness they had formerly dreaded has, unfortunately, through use alone, turned to sweetness?

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Time
  • Alone
  • Upside Down

• It's grossly unfair to judge Walter Payton solely on the yards he gains. He is a complete football player, better than Jim Brown, better than O.J. Simpson.

  

  Jim Finks
  • Football
  • Player
  • Judge

• I remember bringing some of my other friends to our table, and everyone at our table would look at them and ask me, 'What are you doing? Why'd you bring him?' It was annoying high school stuff that still goes on now. My high school was really bad.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • School
  • Why
  • Friends

• I really want to disappear, grow a beard, not talk to anyone, not make any friends... I just want to disappear and study.

  

  Rivers Cuomo Weezer
  • Friends
  • Study

• 'Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible,' she said, 'but that alone doesn't make it true.'

  

  Franz Kafka
  • She
  • True
  • Alone