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

• 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

• Dear gourmands! my bowels yearn towards them as a father's toward his children. They are so good natured! They have such sparkling eyes!

  

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  • Children
  • Food
  • Eye

• Since luck's a nine days' wonder, wait their end.

  

  Euripides
  • Wonder
  • Luck
  • Wait

• Oh dear, all those words again," thought Milo as he climbed into the wagon with Tock and the cabinet members. "How are you going to make it move? It doesn't have a--" "Be very quiet," advised the duke, "for it goes without saying.

  

  Norton Juster
  • Members
  • Dear
  • Cabinets

• Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Home
  • Fear
  • Action

• It is exactly the unattainability, which differentiates a dream from a goal: Goals are reachable, when you fight for them. Dreams are not. Athletes shouldn't dream, but set goals for themselves and fight for them.

  

  Fabian Cancellara
  • Dream
  • Fighting
  • Goals

• The applause of silence. is the only kind that counts.

  

  Alfred Jarry
  • Kind
  • Silence
  • Counts

• 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