Karlfried Graf Durckheim Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Israel is a piece of real estate that neither Jew or Arab will let go of; neither will leave these shores. And so they will have to learn to live together.
-
Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out with them.
-
Giving only 50% of your fortune is not enough.
-
Enough to using Texas as a political laboratory for testing far-right ideas. Enough to using Texas as a workshop for fattening the wallets of their special interest friends and supporters. And enough of politicians listening only to each other, rather than real Texans.
-
Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.
-
I'm here today because I refused to be unhappy. I took a chance.
-
I've always had a problem with conventional punctuation of dialogue because it does seem to me to set it off too much from the narrative. I mean, in life, things don't stop while somebody says something, and then stuff starts up again; it's all happening at once.
-
If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available.
-
Today in India there are all sections of people, as the BJP realized when the poor voted them out.
-
A man in debt is so far a slave.
-
Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.
-
I was madder than a Keebler elf getting demoted to fudge-packer.
-
I think I've had extremes of being unable to exist outside of my own head, and then I only am existing for other people... There's a middle ground where I should take care of myself and other people.
-
I'm the great-great-grandson of a sheep stealer.
-
Are you sick and tired of these moralizing moralizers imposing their morality on the rest of us? I know I am.
-
I learned from my dad that when you walk in front of an audience, they are the kings and queens, and you're but the jester.
-
An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
-
I missed a lot of family weddings and funerals because we were out on the road and had these big gigs, and you can't pull out of these gigs at the last minute because too many people are counting on it. It got to the point where I was consumed with that.
-
Power's a strange thing, lad. It's a drug people like me crave it.
-
Let sleeping dogs lie - who wants to rouse 'em?
-
The longer I spent time on 'The Daily Show,' standing in front of a green screen pretending to report from war zones and hot spots around the world - most often from somewhere in the Middle East - the more I began to realize that 'The Daily Show' was radicalizing me.
-
Usually, in daily life, we are motivated to do something, then we do it. But when mood is low, we have to do something before the motivation comes.
-
For the true student, everything that happens in daily life is a test.
