Franz Kafka Quotes

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

Franz Kafka

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• The wonderful thing about modern medicine is that so many of these complaints that used to signify old age and decline can be coped with.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Age
  • Medicine
  • Old Age

• A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women
  • Man
  • Fear

• Never in a million years would I imagine Calvin Klein flying me out to my first men's fashion show.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Men
  • Fashion
  • Flying

• My father was military, so I traveled a lot, so I had 13 to 15 first days in new schools. Bullies transcend culture, unfortunately, and I had to deal with them wherever I went. I knew how to defend myself. But I didn't know how to fight.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Father
  • Culture
  • Myself

• Both of my parents were super music lovers when I was growing up - they had a massive record and tape collection. I think my dad even had a couple of laser discs, but that was a short-lived thing.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • Up
  • Music
  • Parents

• I'm not comparing myself to Bobby Kennedy by any stretch, but he was opposed by the liberal establishment, too. Eleanor Roosevelt was the biggest opponent to him running.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Running
  • Myself
  • Him

• I've got a great eye for color. I'm like a chick.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Great
  • Eye
  • Color

• I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Up
  • Music
  • Church

• People are thrown off by someone who looks feminine, but is also strong. It's not that pretty girls aren't smart, it's that women aren't strong.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • People
  • Women
  • Pretty

• I do have a side of me that would just love to be stuck in the woods and have to stick it out and be really resourceful.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Love
  • Side
  • Stuck

• I grew up in a family that despised not only communism but collectivism, socialism, and any 'ism' that deprived the individual of his or her natural rights.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Up
  • Family
  • Socialism

• All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Value
  • Things
  • Human

• I read myths and fairy tales and books about them a great deal now, but I very seldom read novels. I find modern novels bore me. I can read Tolstoy and the Russians, but mostly I read comparative mythology and comparative religion. I need matter to carry with me.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Great

• I fall in love too terribly hardFor love to ever last.

  

  Sammy Cahn
  • Fall

• What expressions we used – in part taken over and in part newly invented! - above all, the famous 'wholly other' breaking in upon us ‘perpendicularly from above,’ the not less famous 'infinite qualitative distinction' between God and man, the vacuum, the mathematical point, and the tangent in which alone they must meet.

  

  Karl Barth
  • God
  • Alone
  • Taken

• Democracy needs support and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies. Democratic nations should... come together in an association designed to help each other and promote what is a universal value - democracy.

  

  Benazir Bhutto
  • Together
  • Help
  • Support

• Ψευδηγορεῖν γὰρ οὐκ ἐπίσταται στόματὸ Δῖον, ἀλλὰ πᾶν ἔπος τελεῖ.

  

  Aeschylus

• The more I look at most of the art movements, it’s all occultism, when you get down to it. The Surrealists were openly talking about being magicians.

  

  Alan Moore
  • Art

• I pay two full-time assistants in my studio, plus consultants who are architects, engineers, and landscape architects, as well as lighting designers.

  

  Janet Echelman
  • Time

• Men should be able to see themselves in female characters and female strength, just as much as women are able to see themselves in male characters.

  

  Maya Hawke
  • Men
  • Women

• If you've got a guitar and a lot of soul, just bang something out and mean it. You're the superstar.

  

  Krist Novoselic Nirvana
  • Soul

• Since the beginning of the internet era, it has been pretty widely accepted that when you join an online service, whatever data you put into it belongs to you.

  

  Daniel Lyons
  • Pretty
  • Beginning
  • Service

• Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

  

  Franz Kafka