Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by German Authors - Page 16

I still do not know where the notes will come from when I accept a commission for a new work.

The most important thing is not stagnating, to keep improving.

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

Huddersfield isn't one of the biggest fishes in the Championship and to get bigger you have to find new ways. I've been surprised by how open-minded and innovative everybody is at this club, not only the players but the whole staff, the whole management.

Food is a passion for me, especially Italian cuisine. I prefer to have somebody cook for me, but I can do some very nice pasta dishes.

Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual.

It's mostly Mars Bars and peanuts and cheese and you go to the fridge and there's Red Bull and Beer. It's not like people are holding me down and pouring beer in my face.

I long for the time of no more departures. It has something to do with age, probably.

Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.

There are a few things that make me angry. Mostly things not going my way.

The SS, as such, behaved no more criminally than any other social groups would behave when taking part in political events.

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.

My quest, through the magic of light and shadow, is to isolate, to simplify, and to give emphasis to form with the greatest clarity.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

In the most intimate, hidden and innermost ground of the soul, God is always essentially, actively, and substantially present. Here the soul possesses everything by grace which God possesses by nature.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

I used to be a drummer in a band, and I really loved playing the drums, so I look forward to the right opportunity to do that at some point. Maybe even on TV. Every single live performance I'm doing on TV, I want it to be different and unique.

The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life.

A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.

You shouldn't drink two litres of Coca Cola every day.

The way Germans work is that they are slow to warm up but when they do they are your friend for life and very loyal.

Films are very influential, and I especially feel a responsibility to tell stories that have been pushed aside. Being able to shed light on issues that need to be brought to the world.

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

That generation of Germans, along with volunteers from Denmark, Holland, even England and the Free India division and so on, we Europeans were alert and awake to the danger of Bolshevism.

Bose-Einstein condensation is one of the most intriguing phenomena predicted by quantum statistical mechanics.

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

Technically, maybe I learned most of all from George Stevens, and among his movies I learned the most from 'A Place in the Sun.' It's a lesson in moviemaking.

Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.

All writers are mimics, and I'm not interested in picking up somebody else's style or voice.

Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.

A community having the breadth and scope of a people still cannot claim to be an ethnic community unless and until there emerges from its mentality a distinctive culture particularized by the community's special character.

If you have an opponent who is clearly better than you, then OK, you have something to analyse.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Jurgen Klopp is the perfect role model. He has won so much at Liverpool and for Borussia Dortmund but also he worked for a long period at Mainz 05.

In the developed world, we are surrounded by electronics - from the computers on our desks to the smart phones in our pockets to the thermostats in our homes to our data in the virtual cloud.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

Nobody told me to leave Liverpool. I didn't run away from Liverpool.

The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.

Everything is interconnected. The moment you take philosophy, psychology, religion and business and look at the underlying commonalities, that's when you start looking at business in a different way.

Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.

And I was very, very much influenced by the films of Jean Cocteau and by Sartre and everything that came out of France because it was closer than America or England.

The production of natural resources in agriculture, forestry and fisheries, stable natural hydrological cycles, fertile soils, a balanced climate and numerous other vital ecosystem services can only be permanently secured through the protection and sustainable use of biological diversity.

I don't have a radio or TV going all the time. It's very important to have awareness, to know when you tense up and then to stop that.

Dying people often become childish.

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.

When you are young and you play football, you must play in the street. When you go to a club at the age of five, and the coach says you must pass this, eat this, drink this... it's not a life. Young people must train for themselves, play football every day, and not have three coaches, with each one saying this and this.

I just started playing football because it's fun for me, it's the best thing for me.

Always upbeat, always happy, always putting you in a good mood. That's what I want to achieve with my music.

I hope Gunter Grass will continue helping the SPD in campaigns and that he will otherwise remain with us as a provocative literary figure, as well.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

My dad is Arab. I'm not Muslim, but half of family is, so I see a lot of injustice happening in the portrayal of Muslims that they don't have any heroes.

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

The existing system will be quickest and most radically overthrown by the annihilation of its exponents. Therefore, massacres of the enemies of the people must be set in motion.

The uncertainty principle refers to the degree of indeterminateness in the possible present knowledge of the simultaneous values of various quantities with which the quantum theory deals; it does not restrict, for example, the exactness of a position measurement alone or a velocity measurement alone.

I found that jazz musicians, possibly more than their classical counterparts, wear long-standing friendships easily and gracefully.

I'm super supportive of locally grown foods and farmers. Here in L.A., I know all of my farmers markets and go there weekly.