Franz Kafka Quotes

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

Franz Kafka

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• If you are socially isolated, you are more vulnerable to stereotypes and myths; you won't have the opportunity to have conversations with someone who has a different social background than you.

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • Different
  • Opportunity
  • Stereotypes

• Ultimately, when I go back to the stage, I want to be able to do everything. I want to be able to do music and comedy and all that stuff; that's what all this stuff is leading to.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Music
  • Want
  • Comedy

• I believe in something that maybe can be defined as the God in one's heart, in the heart of every human being, but not in a God who sits on high looking down on us and taking care of us and whom we bother with things trivial and weighty so that he will be good to us and arrange things for us here.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • Good
  • God
  • Believe

• Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Long
  • Where
  • Commerce

• What we have found is that we were the principal mediators in many cases between the Iraqis and their own security forces and their own government, and so you have to almost embrace that role.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • You
  • Government
  • Security

• We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Humanity
  • Learn
  • Understand

• Terrorism is a significant threat to peace and security, prosperity and people.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • People
  • Peace
  • Prosperity

• My mom used to tell me, 'If you read 50 books, I'll get you a motorbike.'

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Books

• I believe in a tongue-first exploration of the world. Food is our most immediate daily relationship to our ecosystem, and there is something delectable and intriguing about it.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • World
  • Believe
  • Food

• In 1984, George Orwell wrote of a world where the only colour to be found was in the propaganda posters. Such is the case in North Korea. Images of Kim Il-sung are depicted in vivid colours. Rays of yellow and orange emanate from his face: he is the sun.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • World
  • Sun
  • Face

• When I turned 30, I realised the value of time and with it, the other important things in life. That's when I did up my house, started spending time with my family and friends and did all that a normal girl would do. All these things I was balancing with my work.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepens his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • Great
  • Man
  • Growing

• And fear not lest Existence closing your Account, and mine, should know the like no more; The Eternal Saki from that Bowl has pour'd Millions of Bubbles like us, and will pour.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Fear
  • Bubbles

• Honey you came along and captured my heartNow my love is somewhere lost in your kissWhen I'm all alone it's you that I missGirl, a love like yours is hard to resist.

  

  Lionel Richie
  • Lost
  • Alone

• I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them I shall love and respect, but neither command nor obey. And we shall join our hands when we wish, or walk alone when we so desire.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Men
  • Friends
  • Respect

• Time has not grown so very old since the most prominent members of our profession, though admired by the public eye, and lauded by its tongue, were socially, viewed askance, and regarded as 'merely players.'

  

  Edwin Booth
  • Time

• The fatal facility of the octosyllabic verse.

  

  Lord Byron

• Laughter is the best medicine, y'know, besides medicine.

  

  Bo Burnham
  • Laughter

• I'm not going to stop going to the supermarket just because the paparazzi follow me. I love to cook and a cook needs her ingredients!

  

  Eva Longoria
  • I Love
  • Cook
  • Paparazzi

• Where would the Rockefellers be today if old John D. had gone on selling short-weight kerosene ... to widows and orphans instead of wisely deciding to mulct the whole country.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Country
  • Today

• It was a total dream of mine to have my voice on an album with Stevie Nicks.

  

  Charles Kelley Lady Antebellum
  • Dream

• Mysterious in the light of day, nature retains her veil, despite our clamours: That which she does not willingly display cannot be wrenched from her with levers, screws and hammers.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Light
  • Display
  • Hammers

• Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

  

  Franz Kafka