Michael Ende Quotes

All that matters in life," the grey man went on, "is to climb the ladder of success, amount to something, own things. When a person climbs higher than the rest, amounts to more, owns more things, everything else comes automatically: friendship, love, respect, et cetera..." "Isn't there anyone who loves you?" Momo whispered.

Michael Ende

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• In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Business
  • You
  • Investment

• I make mistakes on a very grand scale.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Mistakes
  • Very
  • Scale

• What I like to call 'journalism of depth' is the media that regards the collective conscience of the masses to be its point of departure. It is the media that believes, as a matter of principle, in the potential capabilities of the people and respects their choices.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • People
  • Choices
  • Media

• You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • People
  • Time
  • Book

• I feel that, at this point in my career, I don't want to do another television show. I don't want to do a film.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Want
  • Career
  • Television

• When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Me

• I know now that what countries do at summits has the power to help girls in Pakistan, Nigeria or Afghanistan.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Power
  • Help
  • Know

• Trust me: I've been travelling, making movies, and spending the remainder of my time at home.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Time
  • Home
  • Trust

• I remember when we did 'Shaun of the Dead,' and when we were trying to get it off the ground in 2001 before we actually made it, a lot of people just didn't want to know.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • People
  • Trying
  • Remember

• If the Islamic world is so suffused with rage and hatred of us - for our wars, occupations, drone attacks, support of Israel, decadent culture, and tolerance of insults to Islam and the Prophet - why should we call for free elections, when the people will use those elections to vote into power rulers hostile to the United States?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• I keep my old friends, and get older with them, but push young. It's good to be surrounded by kids, because they keep you young.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Friends

• I always think that struggle can bring out the best in people - or the worst.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • People
  • Best
  • Struggle

• To have a second movie that you're proud of and that actually turned out the way you wanted, shot by shot, I realize I'm probably going to be able to do this for a little while for my living.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Movie
  • Proud
  • Living

• Without a function, we cease to be. So, I will write till I die.

  

  Farley Mowat
  • Die
  • Will
  • Without

• 'Star Trek' put sci-fi on the map and changed television, and 'Battlestar' has changed it in another direction by making it a little more mainstream and acceptable to people who wouldn't normally watch sci-fi.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • People
  • Star
  • Direction

• Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Life
  • Time
  • Busy

• I think that we're always drawn - particularly sophisticated people - are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • People
  • Think
  • Simplicity

• In terms of politics, I just look at people's policies, and sometimes I agree with something, sometimes I won't.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Politics

• We must eschew anything trivial. We must embrace all that is frivolous.... Trivial things take up all your time and dull your senses, whereas frivolity is meaningful, profound, worth living and dying for.... If we devote our lives to frivolity, the world will be a far, far better place. Humanity will be better able to fulfill its primary goal, that of having a good time.

  

  Cynthia Heimel
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• They all start competing against Lincoln as the greatest president. And the [library] building becomes the symbol, the memorial to that dream.

  

  Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • Dream
  • Library
  • Memorial

• Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Experience
  • History
  • Democracy

• Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil we have made through life.

  

  Cunningham Geikie
  • Character
  • Soul
  • Evil

• All that matters in life," the grey man went on, "is to climb the ladder of success, amount to something, own things. When a person climbs higher than the rest, amounts to more, owns more things, everything else comes automatically: friendship, love, respect, et cetera..." "Isn't there anyone who loves you?" Momo whispered.

  

  Michael Ende
  • Respect
  • Person
  • Everything