Michael Ende Quotes

Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time. Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it. Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.

Michael Ende

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• I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Attention
  • Like
  • Camera

• Nobody really believes in equality anyway.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Equality
  • Nobody
  • Anyway

• The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Great
  • Reality
  • Culture

• But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.

  

  Ralph Adams Cram
  • May
  • Soul
  • Freedom

• Looking beautiful isn't just about what you apply on your face. It's the little things you do that matter. A combination of a good diet, exercise, healthy habits, discipline, dancing etc. is what my beauty routine consists of. Also, I have no bad habits; I don't drink or smoke. All these contribute to me being fit and looking good.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Beautiful

• You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • People
  • Believe
  • Talent

• Government bonds have basically been sold in the domestic market, so there is some sense of stability, but the amount of public debt is really severe... Japan must manage its finances with a sense of urgency.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Government
  • Market
  • Urgency

• I'm pretty hard on myself in general.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Pretty
  • Myself
  • Hard

• I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Time
  • Good
  • Character

• As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Poetry
  • Human
  • Condition

• You know I feel very fortunate that my life has turned out the way that it has - whatever that means - I mean... you know, to say that I would be glad would mean that I planned it.

  

  Oliver Platt
  • Life
  • Know
  • My Life

• Sometimes audiences want to see what we're doing to their world. It's our obligation sometimes to reflect it.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • World
  • Want
  • Doing

• It is my strong hope that an environment will be created in which both of our countries can cooperate for the realization of a world without nuclear weapons.

  

  Yoshiro Mori
  • World
  • Hope
  • Strong

• It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.

  

  Alexander Hamilton
  • People
  • Good
  • Character

• I walked out of the show business in 1968 because I thought that would be good for the family. It took me some time to decide but I wanted to spend more time with my wife and two daughters who were always beside me. I wanted to do everything I could for them.

  

  Pete Best
  • Time
  • Good
  • Family

• There is probably no such thing as a level playing field in political campaigns.

  

  Deborah Tannen
  • Political

• Each day, we have the opportunity to learn something new, apologize for our mistakes, and become better.

  

  Lewis Howes
  • Opportunity

• The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.

  

  Jean de la Bruyere
  • Long
  • Death
  • Desire

• Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Art
  • Romantic

• Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.

  

  Don DeLillo
  • Truth
  • Waiting

• There are no ghosts, my love. Death is final. The soul is that ineffable combination of memory and personality which we carry through life...when life departs, the soul also dies. Except for what we leave in the memory of those who loved us.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Death

• Tisch has a great film program and a great acting program, but they are segregated; you don't really intertwine. My peers knew I liked acting, so they'd be like, 'Go get that guy Gubler. He'll be in your student film.' I was in the same building. I became their go-to guy. So I left NYU having been in probably one thousand short films.

  

  Matthew Gray Gubler
  • Great
  • Guy

• Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time. Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it. Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.

  

  Michael Ende
  • Life
  • Great
  • Mystery