Fanny Lewald Quotes

I fought windmills with such heavy weapons that I risked dislocating my arm.

Fanny Lewald

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• All it takes is one drink to mess with the way you drive - it clouds your judgment and slows your reflexes. Don't take any chances. It just isn't worth it.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Judgment
  • Drink
  • Clouds

• God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to those who are faithful to him, let us hold fast to him with all our soul, our heart, our strength, and so enjoy his light and see his glory and possess the grace of supernatural joy.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Good
  • God
  • Heart

• This country wants to laugh. We want to, and we need to. I'm happy to oblige.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Country
  • Happy
  • Laugh

• There are no free lunches in life. You have to earn it. I am paying my dues. People have accused me of having it easy because I am Amitabh Bachchan's son. Yes, I am his son, and I've never run away from it. I work hard to make him proud.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.

  

  Olin Miller
  • Enemy
  • Forgiveness
  • Forgive

• At age 26, I was chairman of UB Group but living like a 26-year-old. I lived my age. Which youngster doesn't like a Ferrari? Which youngster doesn't like a good time?... but my contemporaries were R. S. Goenka and Dhirubhai Ambani, captains of the industry but twice my age. You wouldn't necessarily expect them to be driving around in Ferraris.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Time
  • Good
  • Age

• That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Die
  • Wish
  • I Wish

• I hate to see people frustrated or leave a company for an opportunity they could easily have had at their current company if they had only asked.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Hate

• People who want to be a star get their teeth capped. People who want to be an actor get to work.

  

  Gary Ross
  • People
  • Work
  • Want

• The proliferation of bans fuels stereotypes and discriminates against a community.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Community
  • Stereotypes

• The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • World
  • Man
  • Dreams

• The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Heart
  • Nature
  • Memory

• I try to get over to Iraq and Afghanistan as much as I can.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Try
  • I Can
  • Afghanistan

• It's part of the magic of 'Game of Thrones,' all the secrets.

  

  Faye Marsay
  • Game
  • Magic
  • Secrets

• I grew up in Chicago, IL. I've got three siblings.

  

  Lamorne Morris
  • Up
  • Chicago
  • Three

• I really believe at the end of the day, regardless of how noble you are or how patriotic the film might be, it has to serve as entertainment in order for your audiences to come into the theatre and watch it. Otherwise, audiences will wait and see it a few months later when it is premiered on television.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Believe
  • Day
  • End

• 'You're such a liar.''But I’m a beautiful liar, don’t you think?' She flashed her best smile at her friend.'I don’t understand what men see in women anyway,' her friend answered. 'Hexes or no hexes, as long as a woman has her clothes on a man can’t see what he’s interested in anyhow.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Men
  • Long
  • Women

• I think lobbying is really an honest profession. Lobbying means trying to persuade Congress to accept your point of view. Sometimes you can give them a lot of facts they didn't have before.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • Trying

• When I get bored, I'll zone out, and I'll just sit in front of my computer and start writing any random song that comes to mind.

  

  JC Chasez NSYNC
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Song

• Life was so easy before I became an actor. I could talk to anyone, and no one bothered. I keep thinking to myself, 'Should I not be myself,' but I won't do that.

  

  Anushka Sharma
  • Life
  • Thinking

• I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes takes something from me and gives something to it. Oh, if it were only the other way! If the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now! Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day—mock me horribly!

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Die
  • Picture
  • Beauty

• When you become famous, they don't give you a handbook.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Giving
  • Famous
  • Fame

• Narratives have the same power, I think. Some readers of my novels ask me, "Why do you understand me?". That's a huge pleasure of mine because it means that readers and I can make our narratives relative.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Pleasure
  • Novels
  • Readers

• I fought windmills with such heavy weapons that I risked dislocating my arm.

  

  Fanny Lewald