Georg Ebers Quotes

True love does not paralyze, but doubles the high qualities of man.

Georg Ebers

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• Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • People
  • Desire
  • Talk

• Some kids go walking in the mountains, but I just went to the cinema. So when I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, even though this wasn't normal for Arab kids or anyone in the town, they were sort of expecting it and were very supportive.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Walking

• Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Real
  • Integrity
  • The Right Thing

• The one good thing is that I get a lot more good scripts coming through my letterbox. 'Vera Drake' raised my profile in one way, and then 'Harry Potter' in another.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Good
  • Way
  • More

• We need an honest politician in charge who doesn't care whether they are re-elected and is prepared to make the unpopular decisions.

  

  Peter Hargreaves

• The joy I felt as the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities (smallpox) was so excessive that I found myself in a kind of reverie.

  

  Edward Jenner
  • World
  • Joy
  • Instrument

• Allowing ourselves to become a nation of silent, secretive, timid citizens is likely to result in a system of democracy and justice that is neither very democratic nor very just.

  

  Dahlia Lithwick
  • Justice
  • Democracy
  • Citizens

• The world is not there to please you. It's up to you to please the world.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • World
  • Please

• If he failed the first time he took his driver's licence test, it was mainly because he started an argument with the examiner in an ill-timed effort to prove that nothing could be more humiliating to a rational creature than being required to encourage the development of a base conditional reflex by stopping at a red light when there was not an earthly soul around, heeled or wheeled. He was more circumspect the next time, and passed.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Time
  • Soul
  • Effort

• Was it that you wanted to pull my leg by transporting me to the frozen Himalayan heights of 'mahatmaship' and claiming for yourself absolution from having to follow my precepts?

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Precepts
  • Absolution
  • Transporting

• Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Mind
  • Subject
  • Preference

• Every time I see Peter Falk in the movie I think that would be great. We'd be fun together.

  

  Paul Reiser
  • Great
  • Movie
  • Fun

• This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Race Of People

• True love does not paralyze, but doubles the high qualities of man.

  

  Georg Ebers
  • Qualities
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