Erich Maria Remarque Quotes

You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminal—no one will see it. But when a button is missing—everyone sees that.

Erich Maria Remarque

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• Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Desire
  • Principle
  • Obsession

• I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.

  

  Carl Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Good
  • Actor
  • Say

• The electronics industry expanded rapidly and the seeds for the semiconductor and software revolution were planted. The postwar period also saw the suburbanization of America, the rise of the homeowner, the build-out of the interstate highway system, and the rise of automobile culture. Credit availability expanded dramatically.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • America
  • Culture
  • Period

• We cannot afford to spend millions and millions over nuclear arms when there is poverty and unemployment all around us.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Poverty
  • U.S.
  • Unemployment

• I'm a person who has a lot of energy. So, yes, I don't really stop to rest or de-stress. I just keep going. I figure that if you don't stop, then you'll never notice how tired you are.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Energy
  • Stop
  • Rest

• The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Ended

• There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Nothing
  • Holocaust
  • Compares

• The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Long
  • Devil
  • Adversity

• If you're an outsider looking into my life, you're thinking, 'That dude is crazy. He's literally crazy.'

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Crazy

• I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Think
  • Growing
  • Loss

• Globalization is the economic treason that dare not speak it name.

  

  Pat Buchanan

• Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and cons of an argument, and carefully figure them out, and he might test them in public.

  

  David Herbert Donald
  • Up

• I'm not a politician.

  

  Eric Braeden

• We're not really for anything but a better America, a stronger country. And we do support our soldiers.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Country
  • America
  • Support

• I think I'm a pretty average person, and I respond to positive things, so I write for myself.

  

  Janet Evanovich
  • Pretty
  • Positive

• I remember seeing my father only twice as a child for brief visits. As I grew up, I invented a father who was larger than life - stronger, smarter, more handsome, and even holier than other men.

  

  Kathryn Harrison
  • Life
  • Up
  • Men

• I think every band is a little cautious when the drummer starts to write tunes.

  

  Matt Cameron Soundgarden
  • Band

• I'm in the acting business. That's the ego business.

  

  Betty White
  • Business
  • Ego

• I was one of the first post-studio artists. I used to do my works in the streets. I used to find them in the streets, and I used to leave them in the streets.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Artists
  • Works
  • Streets

• By being discontented, the spirit searches for ways to improve its condition and for a better channel for expressing itself. This sense of discontent is the engine that drives all creativity and innovation... Our blue moments are a necessary part of our human evolution.

  

  Chin-Ning Chu
  • Moments
  • Creativity
  • Blue

• He's a gypsy killer. He has a special gypsy killing knife.

  

  Coco J. Ginger
  • Killer

• You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminal—no one will see it. But when a button is missing—everyone sees that.

  

  Erich Maria Remarque
  • Missing
  • Button
  • Archangel