Erich Maria Remarque Quotes

Do I walk? Have I feet still? I raise my eyes, I let them move round, and turn myself with them, one circle, one circle, and I stand in the midst. All is as usual. Only the Militiaman Stanislaus Katczinsky has died. Then I know nothing more.

Erich Maria Remarque

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• When you take on something like your footprint on the environment, you have to say, 'Where am I going to draw the circle around my level of responsibility and then where do I assume that others will take responsibility?'

  

  Sally Jewell
  • You
  • Responsibility
  • Environment

• My dad was a serious alcoholic, and ultimately, that's why he died. When you're a child of someone who struggled with things like that, you look for the common thread. Is there a pattern? Is there an inheritance of pathology in some way? That haunts me.

  

  K. Flay
  • Serious
  • Died
  • Inheritance

• I was really into the first 'Spider-Man' films with Tobey Maguire, so it's pretty cool how it all came full circle.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • Pretty
  • Cool
  • First

• I made the first Feist album in '98. So at that point, it was my nickname. It was as far as with my circle of friends, and just felt more accurate than two names.

  

  Feist
  • Friends
  • First
  • Circle

• You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Time
  • Work
  • She

• I know what I can know, and am not troubled about what I cannot know.

  

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte
  • I Know
  • Troubled

• We start to die when we no longer have the power to choose.

  

  Octavian Paler
  • Power
  • Die
  • Choose

• And I know it - I know it in my heart - Right now - Todd Hewitt - There's nothing we can't do together.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Heart
  • Together
  • I Know

• In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for 'Scientific American Frontiers.'

  

  Alan Alda
  • American
  • Mountain
  • Died

• Anyone I know who's almost died has come out of it, at least for a while, looking at things differently.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Looking
  • Died
  • Anyone

• I had known a couple of people who had died, but the loss of my mother contained something of the profoundly unknowable.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • People
  • Mother
  • Couple

• My musical development stopped when Frank Sinatra died.

  

  Alex Trebek
  • Development
  • Died
  • Frank Sinatra

• I know that you cannot hate other people without hating yourself.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Hate
  • I Know

• Do you recall what was revealed the day the music died?

  

  Don McLean
  • Music
  • Died
  • Recalls

• And I laughed so hard I think I died

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Thinking
  • Hard
  • Died

• Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Family
  • Husband
  • Grief

• I'm old school. I'm locked into my own little circle. If you cross the line, you're going to get bit. They'll always know where I'm coming from and once we hit the floor, there's no doubt.

  

  Eli Manning
  • School
  • Doubt
  • Circle

• The loveliest, sweetest flower that bloomed in paradise, and the first that died, has rarely blossomed since on mortal soil. It is so frail, so delicate, a thing, it is gone if it but look upon itself; and she who ventures to esteem it hers proves by that single thought she has it not.

  

  Elizabeth Fry
  • She
  • Single
  • Flower

• They will both be happy, and I do not grudge them their bliss; but I groan under my own misery: some of my suffering is very acute. Truly, I ought not to have been born: they should have smothered me at first cry.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Bliss
  • Grudge
  • Groan

• Morgan sighed. "I," she announced, "am so pathetic." "You are not," I said. "I am." She went over and straightened the cling wrap, corner to corner. "Do you know how many times I've brought in devilled eggs? This is, like, the only time I haven't been sobbing and that's only 'cause I cried all night. And Norman," she said, her voice rising to a wail, "sweet Norman, always just acts so surprised to see the eggs, and pleased, and he never, once, has ever acted like he knew what they meant."

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Night
  • Voice
  • Sweet

• I'm not afraid of being told 'no.'

  

  Emily Weiss

• I tend to be sort of quiet and shy and awkward in social situations.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Situation
  • Social
  • Quiet

• Do I walk? Have I feet still? I raise my eyes, I let them move round, and turn myself with them, one circle, one circle, and I stand in the midst. All is as usual. Only the Militiaman Stanislaus Katczinsky has died. Then I know nothing more.

  

  Erich Maria Remarque
  • Died
  • I Know
  • Circle