Erich Auerbach Quotes

The way in which we view human life and society is the same whether we are concerned with things of the past or things of the present.

Erich Auerbach

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• In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost our way.'

  

  Ted Yoho
  • People
  • Country
  • Lost

• For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Friendship

• I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world.

  

  Ted Turner
  • World
  • Think
  • Man

• I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.

  

  Oliver Hudson
  • Great
  • Think
  • Want

• Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.

  

  Mackenzie Crook
  • Money
  • Star
  • Box

• Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Believe
  • Peace
  • Path

• Ultimately, when I go back to the stage, I want to be able to do everything. I want to be able to do music and comedy and all that stuff; that's what all this stuff is leading to.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Music
  • Want
  • Comedy

• When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Music
  • Age
  • Kid

• The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous lie.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Hate

• A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.

  

  Ward McAllister
  • Happy
  • Man
  • Rich

• Women are just much better at getting degrees than men. It seems that school at every level plays to the natural strengths of women more than it does to men.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Men
  • Women
  • School

• Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their grandchildren necessarily act with the same motivation.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Children
  • Movie
  • motivation

• I'm not really into movies on dates because you can't chat it up.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Up
  • You
  • Movies

• The stage is where I feel most comfortable, and I miss it all the time.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Time
  • Feel
  • Stage

• I didn't fit in at school, and I didn't fit in at home, and I didn't know why. I was often lonely.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • School
  • Why
  • Home

• It was hard to admit I had a problem when I still had money, property, prestige. How can I have a problem when I'm driving my new Mercedes, and it's paid for, and I have a house at Malibu?

  

  Edd Byrnes
  • Money
  • House
  • Problem

• I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it's a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Love
  • Winning
  • Losing

• I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where, for the first time in my life, I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Life
  • Time
  • Reading

• We need to make sure that there's art in the school. Why? Why should art be in the school? Because if art isn't in a school, then a guy like Steve Jobs doesn't get a chance to really express himself because in order for art to meet technology, you need art.

  

  LL Cool J
  • School
  • Art
  • Why

• Perhaps the critics are right: this generation may not produce literature equal to that of any past generation-who cares? The writer will be dead before anyone can judge him-but he must go on writing, reflecting disorder, defeat, despair, should that be all he sees at the moment, but ever searching for the elusive love, joy, and hope-qualities which, as in the act of life itself, are best when they have to be struggled for, and are not commonly come by with much ease, either by a critic's formula or by a critic's yearning.

  

  William Styron
  • Writing
  • Past
  • Joy

• Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Pretty
  • Well
  • Everybody

• Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Problems
  • Japan
  • Cowardice

• Ne mireris, si vulgus verius loquatur quam honoratiores; quia etiam tutius loquitur.

  

  Francis Bacon

• The way in which we view human life and society is the same whether we are concerned with things of the past or things of the present.

  

  Erich Auerbach
  • Past
  • Present
  • Human Life