Franz Kafka Quotes
You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
Quotes to Explore
-
There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
-
We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.
-
I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
-
I was vegetarian for a long time, and in the last four years I started eating chicken and fish. I feel like it really built up my strength a lot.
-
You have to find out how to become the character.
-
A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
-
Where love is, there God is also.
-
Elves are cool, man.
-
I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.
-
I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
-
Boy, I'll tell you, when the Rams drafted me No. 1, it surprised me. I was walking on air for days.
-
There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
-
Sufficient for me is that honour which is not seen of men but is felt in the heart, as faithful is He who hath promised and who never lies.
-
With 'The Social Network,' I got into it at first because frankly I thought there was a cool courtroom drama to be had with the intellectual properties. And then what further drew me in was that the most extraordinary social networking device ever created was created by the world's most antisocial person. I liked that story.
-
And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher.
-
When you're really close to someone, they can make fun of you a lot and get away with it. But they sort of poke you in all of the right places.
-
Unless you consider yourself some sort of human brand, which I don't, you have to deal with the fact that different people are going to like different aspects of your work. It's not consistent. I am not consistent. But I feel OK with that.
-
Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director.
-
In July, 1892, fate suddenly granted me financial independence.
-
Obviously, it's not a performance that we're proud of. But nobody's going in the tank, or giving up. We're going to come out next week and have a lot of our problems fixed.
-
One is that that's the way we started and we thought there would be more value and less confusion if the business model was just based on delivering news that's of value to Web sites.
-
Everybody knows that our cities were built to be destroyed.
-
My personal story is that my father was a heroin addict and a heroin dealer and has been in and out of prison my entire life, he's been arrested sixty times. I also have an older brother addicted to crack cocaine who's been in and out of prison so it was really important for me to tell a story that shows the humanity and the journey of a man getting of our prison and trying to re-acclimate into society. It's apart of our community that we have stereotypes and ideas about but we don't actually know much about it, unless we know someone personally.
-
You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
