Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by German Authors - Page 19

At the end of the day, the true value proposition of education is employment.

I used to think then that I was Bohemian, but I know now that I am not. I prefer order and precision to untidiness and looseness.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

Frank Williams says I'm nothing but a money-grabber. I can only laugh at that.

An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.

I used to buy nice clothes and drive a nice car when I couldn't afford it. But I spent all my money doing it, and now I don't have to. I like nice things. I like to travel in a certain style. I like to live in a nice place.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

Coming up with ideas isn't hard. The real challenge is finding the time to actually build something and then finding a home for it.

In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.

You have to go to the limit every day as a player, or others will take over.

I was born December 21, 1917, in Cologne, on the Rhine, the son of the sculptor and cabinet-maker, Viktor Boell, and his wife, Maria, nee Hermanns.

Physiology seeks to derive the processes in our own nervous system from general physical forces, without considering whether these processes are or are not accompanied by processes of consciousness.

I definitely always took my problems and turned them into music, and the more I can make myself feel happy, the better. But yeah, I definitely feel like music was always a place for me to, like, escape to. I just love songs that are fantasy.

Perhaps I'm just fickle by nature and get tired of countries the way other women do of husbands or lovers.

In the very beginning, we went on tours with Rammstein in really small clubs. We didn't even have a record out. We played in restaurants and pubs in the south of Germany.

An internship with Pep Guardiola would be a huge present.

When I started, I was a striker for the first few months. Our goalkeeper didn't show up once, and the team was asked who wanted to fill in for him. No-one really wanted to, but I thought it would be an interesting challenge, so I agreed to do it.

Solutions must be based on compromises.

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

This is a paradox of man: compared to God, man is nothing; yet we are everything to God.

Man, your head is haunted; you have wheels in your head! You imagine great things, and depict to yourself a whole world of gods that has an existence for you, a spirit-realm to which you suppose yourself to be called, an ideal that beckons to you. You have a fixed idea!

Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.

One of the most fun parts about my job is that when the music gets recorded live at the end of the project and real musicians play it, I still get goosebumps every single time.

I am not a dreamer. I am a football romantic.

He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love.

Life on our planet has been a constant series of cataclysmic events, and we are more suitable for extinction than a trilobite or a reptile. So we will vanish. There's no doubt in my heart.

I believe I can even yet remember when I saw the stars for the first time.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

I'm born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.

Saying goodbye is very emotional.

Well, the first time I met The Beatles was through my former boyfriend, Klaus Voormann, who saw them one night when he was wandering around Hamburg and then he heard this beautiful sound of rock 'n' roll music.

Of course the Premier League is the most difficult league in the world because it's so even. I think you can't really compare other leagues with the Premier League. In the Premier League, every team can beat every team, and in football, that's something where you can have surprises.

The things I do, I do from the heart and out of love and respect for our planet and all living things. And I draw my courage from my love for justice and truth, and I calm my fears by comforting those who are more scared than me. And I try to do my best to make the world a better place, one small action at a time, as good as I can.

As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression.

My mother tongue is German.

But at the same time, the commonplace statement about them is true: every character is the hero of his own story. Each has a justification for his actions that is convincing to him. It's fun to give these people voices.

As far as my relationship with President Putin is concerned, it's fine.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

I would love to make a really cool Spanish song, definitely.

Because of our Turkish roots, we still have a very strong relationship with Turkey.

Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.

We are only puppets, our strings are being pulled by unknown forces.

In my opinion, love is not about gender, it's not about religion. Love has no borders and no boundaries.

The presentation of the Golden Badge of the Movement is the highest honor the Third Reich has to offer.

Although I hold a German passport, I feel very much alienated when I'm there.

Once a year, I gather a group of friends to go fishing.

When you are thrown onto the stage at 17 in such an enormous way, it becomes living on the edge because every step you take, every word you speak, every action you do becomes headline news. And it became, for me, life or death.

All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.

Everything is entertainment; criticism is now entertainment and it seems that the French directors have woken up one day and suddenly realised that they were not backed up any more.

I love being pregnant. You can do whatever you want.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

My dad and I speak better when we play together.

Rather, I believe that it is very good, if, with the aid of his songs, we can be reminded, among other things, of the social conditions under which Schubert had to work.

There's something not right with a person's soul when they judge another human being to be less adequate because of their gender or skin color.

I was so astonished that another had penetrated so deeply into the secrets of my soul, and that he knew what I did not know myself, that when I recovered from it he had already been long upon the street.

I was certainly no Maradona. I was a very fast player. When I saw a space, I used it. When I went past somebody, he didn't catch up with me again. I was a player who came with a run-up. What Maradona could see in a small space, I saw over long distances.

A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness.

During the first season of European football at Hoffenheim after we lost the Champions League knockout game to Liverpool, I changed a lot of players between Bundesliga matches and the Europa League for fresh legs. I learnt that we needed more stability. You need to keep five or six of the same places to give you structure, to be your spine.