Franz Werfel Quotes

Zwischen zu früh und zu spät, liegt immer nur ein Augenblick.

Franz Werfel

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• I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Business
  • Nature
  • Career

• Once I can verify my account, I will have a Twitter.

  

  Zach Woodlee
  • Will
  • I Can
  • Twitter

• I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!

  

  Hannah Cowley
  • Life
  • Time
  • Late

• In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • People
  • Attention
  • Name

• I've always sort of believed that the future takes care of itself.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Future
  • Always
  • Care

• I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Want
  • Exist
  • Entertainment

• There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Relationship
  • Taken
  • Comfort

• I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Say
  • Movement
  • Intellectual

• You go through at least the first two years of Star Trek and you find some amazing stuff. Everything that was going on Gene put into the series. He just put strange costumes on the actors and painted them funny colours and left the same situation in.

  

  Majel Barrett
  • Funny
  • Amazing
  • Star

• You don't necessarily need a script or actors to tell a compelling tale. Finding a person at a key moment in his life and rendering the truth as you see it - that's the truest form of drama.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Drama

• My interest is not data, it's the world. And part of world development you can see in numbers. Others, like human rights, empowerment of women, it's very difficult to measure in numbers.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • World
  • Women
  • Human Rights

• When you like something, you find time to do it.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Time
  • You
  • Find

• 'We know a little place in the American Far West, where Charlie Briggs chops up the finest prairie-fed beef and tastes...' (pauses, and continues with a note of disgust in his voice) This is a lot of shit, you know that! You want one more? One more on the beef?

  

  Orson Welles
  • Up
  • American

• Through Plato, Aristotle came to believe in God; but Plato never attempted to prove His reality. Aristotle had to do so. Plato contemplated Him; Aristotle produced arguments to demonstrate Him. Plato never defined Him; but Aristotle thought God through logically, and concluded with entire satisfaction to himself that He was the Unmoved Mover.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • God
  • Believe
  • Reality

• A novelty loses nothing by the fact that it is a novelty; it rather gains something, and particularly if it meets the national fancy for the terse, the vivid, and, above all, the bold and imaginative.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Bold

• People look at me as this very, I don't know, Confucius-like wise person - which I'm not. They don't see all the shit that I've been through.

  

  Amy Tan
  • People
  • Wise

• I would recommend all men in choosing a profession to avoid any that may require an apology at every turn; either an apology or else a somewhat violent assertion of right.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Men
  • May
  • Apology

• People look at rights as if they were muscles - the more you exercise them, the better they get.

  

  Antonin Scalia
  • People
  • Exercise

• If you're doing something like 'Arcadia' by Tom Stoppard, which has been done millions and millions of times, and it's been played some unbelievably well-respected actors, there's a lot more pressure there. But I try not to think about all the other people who have done it before me. You've got to try and be original.

  

  Bel Powley
  • People
  • Done

• If I look at history, it seems that most wars and most cruel things have been done by men and not by women.

  

  Peter Zumthor
  • Men
  • Women
  • Done

• Too many of us hear without heeding, read without responding, confess without changing, profess without practicing, worship without witnessing, and seek without sharing.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Worship
  • Responding

• The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.

  

  Desiderius Erasmus
  • World
  • Men
  • Long

• Zwischen zu früh und zu spät, liegt immer nur ein Augenblick.

  

  Franz Werfel