Franz Kafka Quotes

Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

Franz Kafka

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• You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Myself
  • Positive
  • Yourself

• Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Age
  • Now
  • Jazz

• The beautiful thing is that ageism just doesn't exist on 'EastEnders.' The show saved me.

  

  Barbara Windsor
  • Beautiful
  • Me
  • Show

• It's a coincidence that most of the films I have done are to do with social causes.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Done
  • Social
  • Coincidence

• If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Fiction

• I've only dressed in drag three or four times.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Times
  • Three
  • Dressed

• Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?

  

  Ted Olson
  • Way
  • Marriage
  • Sex

• Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Science
  • Marketing
  • Bachelor

• I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.

  

  Samina Baig
  • Important
  • Women
  • Country

• If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Water
  • Same
  • Beer

• But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.

  

  Origen
  • Good
  • God
  • Change

• It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Wish
  • Enough
  • Just

• If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • People
  • Work
  • Pretty

• Everything I say is true.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • True
  • Everything
  • Say

• From a spinner's perspective, in India it was never easy for me to judge where to stand: how far forward, how far back, because on Indian wickets the ball does not carry as much as abroad. That is true of slip fielding in general. I wouldn't say only for spinner – even for a fast bowler, that holds true.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • True
  • Judge
  • Perspective

• There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Life
  • Work
  • You

• We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • People
  • Great
  • Dreams

• It's just my goal to deliver the best story I can, and I want to make sure each book is better than the last, and in order to do that, I have to take chances.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Book
  • Best
  • Goal

• No, no, I don't watch football. The last time I tried watching was the last Super Bowl. The problem I have is, you know, the graphic nature of my imagination; when I watch and see them meeting head onto head, helmet onto helmet, what flashes through my mind is what's going on in their brains. It's like torture to me.

  

  Bennet Omalu
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Nature

• Reality is the richest thing there is, the most important thing there is. Our imagination allows us to live an artificial life that is wonderful, extremely rich, but I don't believe any artist would dare to say that artifice is better than real life.

  

  Mario Vargas Llosa
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Important

• You can't give up! If you give up, you're like everybody else.

  

  Chris Evert
  • Up

• I loved the writing process. I loved it.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Writing
  • Process
  • Loved

• Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Imagination