Erich Maria Remarque Quotes
It is just as much a matter of chance that I am still alive as that I might have been hit. In a bomb-proof dug-out I may be smashed to atoms and in the open may survive ten hour's bombardment unscratched. No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
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You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it.
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In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.
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I've always felt a bit hard done by in England – you know, I've won the Bisto three times in Ireland, but it has felt like nobody has even heard of me in my home country.
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In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it.
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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
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Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
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I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.
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Explosions are not comfortable.
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The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.
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I educated myself. To me, school was boring.
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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
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I would love to go to Ladakh - there are beautiful monasteries there and because I am from Himachal. I would love to go to Paris. I haven't been to New York, which I have heard a lot about. And, I would love to go to Kanyakumari. I think that would be interesting!
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I'm not on the radio all day long. I'm not on TV.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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I'm by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I've seen it save a lot of people's lives.
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I love doing the dishes... not for the act of cleaning but because I get to put my headphones in, listen to music, and ignore the world for an hour, and it's totally acceptable because I'm cleaning.
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I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.
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For god is nothing other than the eternally creative source of our relational power, our common strength, a god whose movement is to empower, bringing us into our own together, a god whose name in history is love.
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Indy, I have lots of great memories from there, and probably the part of me that doesn't feel quite as longing for it is that there is still a chance that I could do it again. It's not gone.
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I always felt I needed to teach to survive.
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I am still making my living reciting my verses for crowds who refuse to buy my books. I must do this, as all American rhymers must, however sick I may be of the sound of my own voice.
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I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation.
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It is just as much a matter of chance that I am still alive as that I might have been hit. In a bomb-proof dug-out I may be smashed to atoms and in the open may survive ten hour's bombardment unscratched. No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.
