Max Frisch Quotes

Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

Max Frisch

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• I've stammered all my life, and it's fair to say that my stammer has shaped my life. It's made me make some decisions that I'm sure I wouldn't have if I didn't suffer with this affliction.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Decisions

• I start the day with oatmeal with vanilla almond milk. If I don't, I'm dying by noon and eating everything in sight. On-set, I avoid crap and pack soup and salad. I cook pork chops or turkey tacos for dinner.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Day
  • Dying
  • Start

• To understand the hidden secret of the modern industrial world in which I find myself, I have to return to another world. That world is at once wartime Nice and the plantation - the sugar isles on which Europe's prosperity was built.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • World
  • Nice
  • Myself

• The first time I played a PGA Tour event at Tucson was 1975. I came off the course on Sunday feeling very good about myself. I'd finished at even par, and I knew I could play even better if I worked at it.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Time
  • Good
  • Feeling

• This love is silent.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Love Is

• It kind of scares me, the notion that we're going to be injecting ourselves into other countries' affairs when they're not posing a threat to our security. I wouldn't be telling Israel what to do.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Security
  • Countries
  • Notion

• I approach film no differently than I approach a role. I want to make sure the movie is right, the characters are right, I can really bring something to it as a visionary, a storyteller. It's great to point a camera, but can you tell a story?

  

  Larenz Tate
  • Great
  • Movie
  • Want

• Religion is a complex and often contradictory force in our world. It fosters hope and comfort but also doubt and guilt. It creates both community and exclusion. It brings societies together around shared belief and tears them apart through war. However, what unites the faithful, whatever their religion, is the unshakeable force of generosity.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • World
  • War
  • Together

• Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • American
  • Law
  • Justice

• APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Future
  • Past
  • Mistake

• I believe in conscientious capitalism; that's a kind of driving force with me.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Believe
  • Me
  • Force

• But all my life though, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise. I saw in later life that this spirit was an essential part of Satyagraha. It has often meant endangering my life and incurring the displeasure of friends. But truth is hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Friends

• I would not be surprised if there were another cause of AIDS and even that HIV is not involved.

  

  Walter Gilbert

• The old knowledge had been difficult but not distressing. It had been all paradox and myth, and it had made sense. The new knowledge was all fact and reason, and it made no sense.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Knowledge

• We'll attack anyone who tries to harm our citizens.

  

  Benjamin Netanyahu

• Let the corporations do as they please - pillage the environment, falsify their advertising, rig the securities markets - and it is none of the federal government's business to interfere with the will of heaven.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Business
  • Environment
  • Heaven

• In Salford, we had fish in our tap water. I remember, one hot summer day, running to the toilet at playtime and dunking our heads in a sink full of water. I remember putting my head in and seeing all these little fish in it.

  

  Bernard Sumner Joy Division
  • Remember
  • Running
  • Water

• My father is a huge horse racing fan, so I was introduced to the sport long before 'Seabiscuit.' But the role made me an even bigger fan. Horse racing is one of my favorite sports.

  

  Elizabeth Banks
  • Long
  • Father
  • Sports

• I think, bottom line, I have to be good enough to make the team. I have to bring something in and beat somebody else out, especially with a smaller roster for the Olympics.

  

  Megan Rapinoe
  • Good
  • Team

• But if the world is watching, we might as well tell the truth. And the truth is, the church doesn't offer a cure. It doesn't offer a quick fix. The church offers death and resurrection. The church offers the messy, inconvenient, gut-wrenching, never-ending work of healing and reconciliation.

  

  Rachel Grace Held
  • World
  • Work
  • Truth

• No one is accountable anymore for anything. No one did anything wrong. Well, you're to blame. That's to blame. This is to blame.

  

  Craig T. Nelson

• The conversation of most middle-class Americans, we are told, revolves around consumption: what to buy, what was just bought, where to eat, the price of the neighbor's house, what's on sale this week, our clothes or someone else's, the best car on the market this year, where to spend a vacation. Apparently we can't stop eating, shopping, or consuming. Success is measured not in terms of love, wisdom, and maturity but by the size of one's pile of possessions.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Conversation
  • Price
  • Americans

• Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

  

  Max Frisch