Anna Seghers Quotes

Wait, I thought to myself! He wants to wait until everything that once was dear to him is trampled under foot.

Anna Seghers

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• I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Success
  • Know
  • Wait

• I have no special strategy. I can just wait to see what my opponent offers.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Special
  • Strategy
  • Wait

• This old notion that work is drudgery is nonsense. Most days, even back when Xerox was under siege, I could not wait to get to the office.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Work
  • Office
  • Wait

• There's like ten minutes when it's like, 'Okay, wait, who is this guy again?' And then, you know, I just put on the calculator watch and the glasses, and just be all, you know, inappropriate. And then it just works out fine.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Wait

• When my phone pops up with Dierks Bentley, I'm like, 'Oh my gosh!! Okay, wait. He's supposed to be, like, my friend. I'm supposed to be cool.'

  

  Madison Marlow
  • Up
  • Friend
  • Cool

• Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Best
  • Enemy
  • Wait

• What's near and dear to my heart is cooperative conservation.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Heart
  • Dear
  • Conservation

• Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • First
  • Wait
  • Second

• In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

  

  Douglas William Jerrold
  • Truth
  • Wait

• Dear God, I am only what you made me and I appreciate everything that you gave me, but like, I don't want to do it any more, sort of lost sight of what I'm doing it for.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • God
  • Want
  • Lost

• To wait is not to sit with folded hands, but to learn to do what we are told.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Learn
  • Wait
  • Sit

• And I look at her sitting there and she looks across the river and we wait as the dawn fully arrives, each of us knowing. Each of us knowing the other.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • River
  • Wait
  • Sitting

• Dear reader, true religion is not gloomy.

  

  Sara Willis
  • True
  • Reader
  • Dear

• It's better to wait for something that respects you than to go in so low that it diminishes what you've worked for.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Respect
  • Wait
  • Diminish

• I don't go back and look at the monitor between every take; I wait until I feel like we finally got it right: "Let me stop and look at that last one on the monitor."

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Stop
  • Wait
  • Monitor

• Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Dangerous
  • Worth

• While cats can be infuriating, little old women in fur coats, they make me laugh. Of course, dogs, horses and my highly social chickens are dear to me, too.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Women
  • Dog
  • Horse

• Wars are fought for oil wells and coaling stations; for control of the Dardanelles or the Suez Canal; for colonial pickings to buy cheap in and conquered markets to sell dear in. War is capitalism with the gloves off.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • War
  • Control
  • Capitalism

• We must not leap to the fatalistic conclusion that we are stuck with the conceptual scheme that we grew up in. We can change it, bit by bit, plank by plank, though meanwhile there is nothing to carry us along but the evolving conceptual scheme itself. The philosopher's task was well compared by Neurath to that of a mariner who must rebuild his ship on the open sea.

  

  Willard Van Orman Quine
  • Philosophical
  • Conclusion
  • Stuck

• Fundamental ideas play the most essential role in forming a physical theory. Books on physics are full of complicated mathematical formulae. But thought and ideas, not formulae, are the beginning of every physical theory. The ideas must later take the mathematical form of a quantitative theory, to make possible the comparison with experiment.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Ideas
  • Thought
  • Theory

• A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Purpose
  • Horse
  • Point Of View

• She said I do on day 482, and gave me a son on day 761.

  

  Chris Cagle
  • She
  • Day
  • Son

• Wait, I thought to myself! He wants to wait until everything that once was dear to him is trampled under foot.

  

  Anna Seghers
  • Wait
  • Dear
  • Trampled