Franz Werfel Quotes

Happiness is … the grace of being permitted to unfold … all the spiritual powers planted within us.

Franz Werfel

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• The most important role of a leader is to set a clear direction, be transparent about how to get there and to stay the course.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Important
  • Leader
  • Direction

• A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Never
  • Roots
  • Filmmaker

• I actually have a fear of the water because I nearly drowned. I got caught in a rip tide, and I wasn't a good swimmer because that was when I was emigrating from England to Australia.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Good
  • Fear
  • Water

• You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Life
  • Done
  • Job

• Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Children
  • Nature
  • Education

• A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • World
  • Die
  • Struggle

• I'm kind of long in the tooth to fly in in a cape now, so I'd have to be, like, the voice of reason or somebody. 'Don't do that, super-fellow!'

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Long
  • Kind
  • Voice

• My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd participated in rattlesnake round-ups and swum with copperheads.

  

  Edmund White
  • Father
  • Young
  • Cowboy

• I have glaucoma, so use eye drops both morning and night.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Night
  • Morning
  • Eye

• Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Children
  • Future
  • Success

• It's never crowded along the extra mile.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Never
  • Crowded
  • Mile

• Nowadays in pop, there's not a lot of men that are singing big and loud and high - it's not as common as it once was.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Men
  • High
  • Singing

• I wouldn't trade or change a thing, and I've had some hard times.

  

  BeBe Winans
  • Change
  • Hard
  • Hard Times

• A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Different
  • Movie
  • Want

• After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.

  

  Gabriel Medina
  • God
  • Family
  • Day

• My parents said marrying was an optimistic thing to do in pessimistic times.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Parents
  • Said
  • Times

• Individuals with kidney disease who are able to obtain treatment early experience a higher quality of life and are able to maintain more of their day-to-day activities, including keeping their jobs.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Quality

• But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Bad
  • Corruption
  • Dictatorship

• democracy ... begins from the ground up. Anything living grows from the bottom up. Everything dangerous, like bombs, gets dropped from the sky down.

  

  Vandana Shiva
  • Up
  • Democracy
  • Sky

• Ireland is a place that's beautiful and interesting, but I remember when I went there as a teenager with my parents, I was like, "Okay, I'll go to Ireland with my parents. It's going to be green." I think people underestimate it, in that it's, "Oh, it's green," and then you get there, and it's like, "Wow, it is green!" It's, "Oh, there's Irish music," and then you get there, and you're like, "Oh, this Irish music is amazing!" You underestimate it.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Thinking
  • Beautiful
  • Interesting

• The culinary tradition in my family is very strong. My mother, a very wise woman, spent the better part of her life in a kitchen. It's a very strong part of her identity. I grew up there next to the fire.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Life
  • Up
  • Family

• Why did I keep hitching myself to dreams as big as that Montana sky? I was like Rooster Jim's chickens, with no way to fly that high.

  

  Kirby Larson
  • Why
  • High
  • Sky

• Happiness is … the grace of being permitted to unfold … all the spiritual powers planted within us.

  

  Franz Werfel
  • Spiritual