Franz Kafka Quotes

'Hey, there’s something falling down in there,' said the chief clerk. Gregor tried to suppose to himself that what had happened to him might some day also happen to the chief clerk. There was no denying that anything was possible.

Franz Kafka

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• I don't care if you are for having Mexico pay for the border wall, or you want to repeal and replace Obamacare, or if you want women to have complete access to reproductive rights - I don't care. The fact is, if you don't get the nuclear issue right, none of the other ones matter.

  

  Valerie Plame
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• There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

  

  Oscar Levant
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• I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.

  

  Vikas Swarup
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• I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.

  

  Warren G. Harding
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• As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
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• War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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• My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.

  

  Indira Gandhi
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• Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Family
  • Farm
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• It's not about where you were born or where you come from that makes you a good scientist. What you need are good teachers, co-students, facilities.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Good
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• I mean, it's fun for us to talk about issues. You know, there's no one issue we spend a lot of time on probably, because he gets to do that all day with somebody else who's a lot more expert at issues than I am.

  

  Laura Bush
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• I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Knowledge
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• No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Long
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  • Violence

• Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Done
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• You want to enjoy life, don't you? If you get your job done quickly and your job is fun, that's good isn't it? That's the purpose of life, partly. Your life is better.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Life
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• Mr. Wilder says he would rather have me help than any man he ever sawed with. And, believe me, I learned how to take care of hens and to make them lay.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
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• For an impression, I just find that I can do a lot of the people I love without much research, because I've already watched hours and hours of them on video and it seeped into my brain while I wasn't thinking about it.

  

  Kate McKinnon
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• There's no wrong time to make the right decision.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
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• Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory.

  

  Irena Sendler
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• That's one of my strengths, that I can adjust, and I can play with anyone.

  

  Draymond Green

• When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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• I remember my first actor that I really, really fell in love with was Tom Hanks. I suppose when I was growing up and getting more serious about acting, at that point, he was the biggest actor in the world.

  

  Iain De Caestecker
  • Up
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• The ladies--Heaven bless them!--are, as a general rule, coquettes from babyhood upwards.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
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• Do not be too sure, young fellows, That you are better than your ancestors.

  

  William Kean Seymour
  • Young
  • Fellows
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• 'Hey, there’s something falling down in there,' said the chief clerk. Gregor tried to suppose to himself that what had happened to him might some day also happen to the chief clerk. There was no denying that anything was possible.

  

  Franz Kafka