Franz Kafka Quotes

Towards the avoidance of a piece of verbal confusion: What is intended to be actively destroyed must first of all have been firmly grasped; what crumbles away crumbles away, but cannot be destroyed.

Franz Kafka

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• Various circumstances, mainly to do with my military service, prevented me from doing a Ph.D., and I have often regretted it, though you do need to choose the 'right' supervisor in the 'right' discipline - no easy task when you are totally inexperienced.

  

  Yves Chauvin
  • Military
  • Service
  • Discipline

• Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Bad
  • Wise

• I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Power
  • Think
  • Globalization

• My favorite wrestler growing up was Dean Malenko. He was a very technical wrestler, and when I trained with Shawn Michaels, he wasn't that kind of a technical wrestler. So, when I finally met Regal in 2001, he was that kind of a wrestler, and all of a sudden, I could ask him things, and he would know what I was talking about and how to do it.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Know

• The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Control

• I'm not religious, so theres no church on Sunday.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Church
  • Religious
  • Sunday

• Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Thoughts
  • Thought

• One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Live
  • Change
  • Peace

• For me, Melania represents America. We're all reluctantly married to Donald Trump now. She is a vehicle to making fun of him. I can't do a Donald Trump impersonation, but I can impersonate her.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • She
  • America
  • Fun

• The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.

  

  Ovid
  • May
  • High
  • Man

• The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Art
  • Play
  • Interpretation

• I've learned that universal acceptance and appreciation is just an unrealistic goal.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Goal
  • Appreciation
  • Acceptance

• I am a very shy person who is just close to himself. So I would refrain from talking about my personal life.

  

  N. T. Rama Rao, Jr.
  • Life
  • Person
  • Personal

• What I love best in life is new starts.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Life
  • Best
  • New

• I was a bouncer for ten years in New York City.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • City
  • Years
  • New York

• In 1972, George Harrison invited me to accompany him on a trip to India.

  

  Gary Wright
  • India
  • Trip
  • Invited

• Well, this would be nice if it worked out, but I'm not selling the farm.

  

  Jill Clayburgh
  • Nice

• Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn't be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Grew Up
  • Whites
  • Charles Dickens

• I don't just whisper it, I say it and I say it: 'The United Nations is an anti-Semitic organization, an anti-Israel organization.'

  

  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
  • Organization
  • Anti-Semitic

• There are pretty girls all over the place. But there are still a lot of people standing strong, doing their thing in loving relationships, actually staying true. I wanted to write an honest love song from that point of view.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • People
  • True
  • Pretty

• I have to say I owe my career to the master composers of the Great American Songbook who have written such high-quality songs - the best popular music ever composed.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • Great
  • Music
  • American

• Towards the avoidance of a piece of verbal confusion: What is intended to be actively destroyed must first of all have been firmly grasped; what crumbles away crumbles away, but cannot be destroyed.

  

  Franz Kafka