Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by German Authors - Page 17

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.

I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

Happiness lies in moments, and while you have it, you're not even aware; only afterwards do you know you were happy.

The most important thing I learned during games is to be calmer, to try to smooth over other people's or my own mistakes, and not to tackle people unnecessarily. Patience was key for me.

In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take many small steps.

I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me.

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.

Diego Simeone, the coach from Atletico Madrid, was a very strong player as a midfielder.

People change with time. There are things that happened to a person in his childhood and years later they seem to him alien and strange. I am trying to decipher that child. Sometimes he is a stranger to me. When you think about when you were 14, don't you feel a certain alienation?

The question is not whether we are able to change but whether we are changing fast enough.

I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff.

The British claim to have a special relationship with the U.S., but if you mention this in Washington, no one knows what you are talking about.

My childhood ended in 1942. I was 12, and for the next three years, I lived under incessant bombings. It was a life of constant fear.

For Guardiola, the system and tactics can change but not the approach, attitude, or philosophy.

Film is a very, very powerful medium. It can either confirm the idea that things are wonderful the way they are, or it can reinforce the conception that things can be changed.

I played cello in my high school orchestra.

The aim of our studies is to prove that color is the most relative means of artistic expression, that we never really perceive what color is physically.

Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.

I've begun feeling that my responsibility is to the Earth. Our generation's war is climate change, so I've really been modifying how I eat and what I eat.

I like to visit my horse, have a walk with my dog.

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.

I want to show the world, the universe rather, that I am confidently beautiful with a heart.

Physiological psychology is, therefore, first of all psychology.

The strong man is strongest when alone.

I said, 'Wouldn't it be great if Matt Damon's character fell in love with a girl with a real butt?' They were like, 'Yeah sure, sure - here's your personal trainer.'

To dwell is to garden.

I don't wear gloves when I work in the garden.

I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time.

I didn't really know of 'Black Lightning' until I got the script and started to investigate - it wasn't a hero that I grew up with. So I didn't know if his powers were natural or if it was the suit, but those things are, for me, very important. I really like the idea that his powers are his - that whether he has the suit or not, he has them.

From my point of view, it is not the coach who becomes world champion, it is a team. Not just the players who played, but the whole squad, and also the team behind the team. Because if you want to achieve success, the whole team has to work perfectly, like a machine, and all the pieces of the puzzle need to fit together into one picture.

It was once religion which told us that we are all sinners because of original sin. It is now the ecology of our planet which pronounces us all to be sinners because of the excessive exploits of human inventiveness.

If you want to win the Champions League, you have to have talent, good players, luck in the draw, and, in certain moments, the right referee.

Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems.

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

The First Industrial Revolution used water and steam power to mechanize production. The Second used electric power to create mass production. The Third used electronics and information technology to automate production.

I think of the nudes as seed pods, like flowers or grasses. They are universal bodies.

Imperialism is not the creation of any one or any one group of states.

As early as December 1945, I accompanied my wife and a few relatives in their return from evacuation in the countryside to Cologne, where over the years we settled down in a destroyed house.

No amount of success is worth it to me if I can't share it with someone I love.

Explorations into chemistry were done in our basement, sometimes with friends, and my parents must have had quite a bit of confidence in my abilities when they allowed me to experiment with explosive mixtures.

I think video games are a great kind of entertainment. They have replaced a lot of games people normally play with their friends and neighbours, like Monopoly.

I try to stay away, but In-N-Out, you just can't compare it. It's the best. It's the best. It's healthy fast food; they do their own meat and their own salad.

As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must break all precept. All that we do is a means to an end, but love is an end in itself, because God is love.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

I think it's normal that, the first time you meet Federer or Murray or Djokovic, you're going to get nervous. But after a while, they become normal opponents, people you see every week. That's the way you have to think. You can't think of them as legends. When you see someone on court, you have to treat every opponent the same way.

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

Man has not really vanquished Shamanism and its spooks till he possesses the strength to lay aside not only the belief in ghosts or in spirits, but also the belief in the spirit.

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

Mourinho has a great personality and is just a cool guy.

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

The European Union arose on an economic foundation, and it turns out that even this is not a solid base. Cultural identity has been neglected.

Nervenstarke means that no matter the situation, I have to show my teammates that I remain prepared and confident and there for them. They have to feel my Nervenstarke.

Pep Guardiola, when he was at Bayern Munich, he was able to reply in German in his first press conference.

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

God has no grandchildren. He has only children, so being a born-again Christian is not an automatic thing.

Even if me and my manager Willi Weber would find it hard to leave behind our friends at BMW, there's a chance it could happen.

I love action films. It's my favorite genre.