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

• Respect
• Person
• Everything
• Loves
• Matters
• Amount
• Climb
• Whispered
• Automatically
• Amounts

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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

• 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

• Jewel-Like the immortal does not boast of its length of years but of the scintillating point of the moment.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore

• A self-willed man obeys a different law, the one law I, too, hold absolutely sacred - the human law in himself, his own individual will.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Different
  • Law

• Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.

  

  Peggy Noonan
  • Great
  • Magic

• We had punks literally protesting Fugazi. I respect a boycott. I respect a conscionable boycott, but of all bands to boycott? Fight crime. If you really want to get out there, go fight crime.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Want
  • Respect
  • Band

• Researchers, treatment providers - we all have a stake in the drug hysteria game.

  

  Carl Hart
  • Game
  • Drug

• When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Evidence
  • Object
  • Mastership

• 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