Franz Kafka Quotes

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Franz Kafka

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• The more success you get, you start to be harder on yourself or more afraid of the looking glass. You have to learn to build a thicker skin because people are paying more attention.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • Success
  • Attention

• During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Town

• A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Experience
  • Way
  • Better

• I thought if I put my book up on the Internet as a file that you could download, and I told people about it, maybe some people would download it and read it, and maybe I could get some response.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • People
  • Up
  • Book

• The kids can see that there are more parts to me than just being their mom; I wear a couple of different hats and have other roles to play.

  

  Laura Leighton
  • Kids
  • Play
  • Mom

• I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Parents
  • Perfect
  • Safety

• I am not a dumb animal to be browbeaten, cowed, lashed, coerced or goaded into anything I do not think is right.

  

  Earle Combs
  • Animal
  • Right
  • Dumb

• Writing is, by its nature, interior work. So being forced to be around people is a great gift for a novelist. You get to be reminded, daily, of how people think, how they speak, how they live; the things they worry about, the things they hope for, the things they fear.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Management
  • Go
  • Yale

• The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.

  

  Nancy Astor
  • People
  • Life
  • Change

• Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.

  

  Fannie Flagg
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Water

• I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Trying
  • Myself
  • Accomplish

• Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.

  

  Tacitus
  • Good
  • Done
  • Friends

• If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Believe
  • Beautiful
  • Smart

• In order to do 'Amores Perros,' I had to skip some time at drama school, so the director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu came up with a great Latin American solution, which was to say I had a tropical disease and had to stay in Mexico for a while. Everyone believed me.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Young
  • Losing
  • Sibling

• Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Why
  • Always
  • Environmental

• I love New York. Love it.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Love
  • New
  • New York

• What I find interesting is that the people that follow your Twitters are called 'followers.' Talk about false idolatry, right?

  

  Emilio Estevez
  • People
  • Interesting

• There is no difference in the destination, the only difference is in the journey.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Journey
  • Destination

• Sin is, somehow, at the root of all human misery. Sin is what keeps us from God and from life. It is in the face of every battered woman, the cry of every neglected child, the despair of every addict, the death of every victim of every war.

  

  John Ortberg
  • Life
  • God
  • War

• I always knew I would sing. I just didn't know if I would be successful or not. But I sang at school, I sang at parties, I sang at church. Everyone always asked me to sing. I'd be playing football with my friends, and my parents would ask me to sing for their guests. I was never very happy about that because I wanted to play football.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • School
  • Friends
  • Happy

• My family were really happy for me that I'm going to such a big club as Manchester United. They definitely were a bit nervous because of my high price, but I'm going to stay focused on proving my worth.

  

  Anthony Martial
  • Family
  • Happy
  • High

• Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Happy