Franz Kafka Quotes

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

Franz Kafka

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• Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Children
  • Technology
  • Car

• Right now, I'm not really thinking about marriage.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Thinking
  • Marriage
  • Now

• But since we've been fighting for first or second place, it's grabbed the media's attention. I enjoy racing them. They are a good team and when you beat them it's something to be proud of.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Good
  • Team
  • Attention

• I just fell into the job as a fashion editor at a teen magazine. I was there for two years, and I left there as a senior fashion editor at the age of 25.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Job
  • Age
  • Fashion

• I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.

  

  Dan Futterman
  • Actor
  • Writer
  • Pretend

• Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • World
  • Death
  • Christian

• I watched 'Rocky' and 'Raging Bull' and 'Taxi Driver' over and over again. They spoke to you, man.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Man
  • You
  • Rocky

• I am part of a team organising an Emma Hamilton exhibition for the National Maritime Museum for 2016, and the amount of planning is a revelation - borrowing from museums and collections all over the world.

  

  Kate Williams
  • World
  • Team
  • Planning

• I am very interested in Ayurvedic medicine and hope to explore it more someday. I only have a very superficial understanding of the whole thing right now. But learning what my body type is has shifted my whole self-care regime a bit, and I feel better because of it.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Learning
  • Body
  • Medicine

• Let's just say, if I weren't a model, I'd be a walking collage. I see my body as a blank canvas that's aching to be decorated; I find it all very fascinating.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Body
  • Model
  • Walking

• I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Hate
  • Always
  • Again

• The Metropolitan Opera, of course, is the gold standard in opera. The Met experience includes the huge stage, the vast audience, the elaborate sets. Anyone who saw 'Faust' there - I did - knows exactly what hell is like, complete with fire, smoke and terror.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Experience
  • Fire
  • Gold

• The U.N.'s humanitarian agencies rely on charitable donations from the public as well as the generosity of governments to continue their lifesaving work in response to natural disasters, armed conflicts and other emergencies.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Work
  • Response
  • Generosity

• Football matters so much to people, and they get very defensive - or angry.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Football
  • Angry

• We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Need
  • Fact
  • Russia

• I'm just a purist. What is important in my life is that I can do something that can influence many people and influence China's development. When I am myself, I am relaxed and happy and have a good result.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• Problems should be solved by talking and not in an aggressive manner.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Should
  • Problems
  • Talking

• There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • People
  • You
  • Know

• There's too many sounds in the world! The sounds of the earth are terrible! The roots squeezing and jostling one another through the clefts, and the crashing of the acorn from the oak. The cry of the little birdeen in under the silence of the hawk!

  

  Lady Gregory
  • World
  • Earth
  • Silence

• My parents were definitely on the incentive side of parenting. Like, they told me that my father had learned to read when he was three. So, of course, I thought I had to, too.

  

  Chelsea Clinton
  • Father
  • Parents

• I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses.

  

  Bill Walsh
  • Beginning

• In the beginning the gods did not at all reveal all things clearly to mortals, but by searching men in the course of time find them out better.

  

  Xenophanes
  • Time
  • Men
  • Science

• I wake at 5 or 5:30 most mornings, make myself a latte and grab a cookie, write until 10 or 11, go have my favorite meal, 'second breakfast,' or grab coffee with friends, or play basketball. Then, around noon, I begin apologizing via email for the manuscripts I can't get to.

  

  Jess Walter
  • Friends
  • Basketball
  • Coffee

• Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

  

  Franz Kafka
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