Georg Ebers Quotes

Happiness is only the threshold to misery. When a friend refuses to share in joys.

Georg Ebers

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• Part of America's greatness is its willingness to care for those who are truly in need. But those who defraud the system take money and resources away not only from American taxpayers but also from those who truly need help.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Money
  • American
  • America

• We are evolving as one species - not only as Americans, Syrians, Russians, Chinese, and jihadists. We cannot attack one without inflicting forms of violence and destruction upon ourselves. This is our new reality.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Reality
  • Violence
  • Chinese

• I don't think there will ever be a time I don't write, and I hope there will never be a time I don't act.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Time
  • Hope
  • Think

• People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • People
  • Time
  • Want

• Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you're looking for, but sometimes a good explanation is all the rewrite you need.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Life
  • Good
  • May

• I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • People
  • Long
  • Power

• I was an umpire at little league softball games. I only lasted a few games because I wasn't one hundred percent clear on all the rules.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Games
  • Rules
  • Percent

• Athletes at all ages are bigger and stronger than ever before. And they are being encouraged - sometimes even incentivized, as we recently learned was the case on at least one National Football League team - to play to injure.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Team
  • Football
  • Stronger

• We cannot say no to what has already been approved by the citizens.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Say
  • Citizens
  • Been

• I never thought that I would sell to young people, but now girls who are 14 and 15 buy my shoes.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • People
  • Thought
  • Shoes

• I make out a play list for every character and buy the records they would listen to; it helps me find their personas. What they play, where they stay, who they lay, is my matrix for character development.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Character
  • Play
  • Development

• If I don't die in a plane crash or something, this country has a rare opportunity to watch a great talent grow.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Great
  • Country
  • Opportunity

• Men are likely to be quite generous, especially financially.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Generous
  • Financially

• 'You know, I'm a big believer in touch and digital reading, but I still think that some mixture of voice, the pen and a real keyboard - in other words a netbook - will be the mainstream on that.' quoted in (February 2010)5

  

  Bill Gates
  • Real
  • Words
  • Reading

• Last night I was east with them And west within Trying to be for you what you wanna see.

  

  Ben Folds
  • Trying
  • Night

• He who perceives death perceives a sense of the human comedy, and quickly becomes a poet.

  

  Lin Yutang
  • Death
  • Comedy

• Bitumen, the new national staple, is redefining the character and destiny of Canada. Rapid development of the tar sands has created a foreign policy that favours the export of bitumen to the United States and lax immigration standards that champion the import of global bitumen workers.

  

  Andrew Nikiforuk
  • Character
  • Destiny
  • Immigration

• A city one loves exists at no matter what distance, and its symphony is sometimes heard more clearly when one is away, as the music of an orchestra is more lucid to an audience that it sounds to the performers on the stage.

  

  Elliot Paul
  • Exists
  • Performers
  • Orchestra

• Models have a stigma that they can't act. You're also, to be quite blunt, you're tall and not a lot of actors are tall and when you are starting out you're obviously not the first one cast, so you're trying to fit into a mold. You're quite often not cast as the quirky best friend, but you don't have the experience to be cast as the lead. So it can be really tricky. One of the biggest things is just to get your people, so to speak, your agents and managers to take you seriously. That's one of the issues I had when I came out to LA.

  

  Tricia Helfer
  • Experience
  • Friend
  • Actors

• I want to go to college to study journalism. I want to speak French fluently, to travel. My mom was a journalist and it's in my blood.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • College
  • Mom
  • Study

• The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • May
  • Nature
  • Society

• My legs tightened up pretty much, and it was a hard last corner for me.

  

  Bonnie Blair
  • Up
  • Pretty

• Happiness is only the threshold to misery. When a friend refuses to share in joys.

  

  Georg Ebers
  • Friend
  • Happiness
  • Misery