Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by German Authors - Page 2

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

There are difficult matches from time to time, and that is absolutely normal. You have to stay calm and confident after them.

Every volcano is a powerful illustration of God's character. He is a Vesuvius of goodness, life, and energy.

I only focus on myself. I want to improve myself.

Corporate social responsibility is measured in terms of businesses improving conditions for their employees, shareholders, communities, and environment. But moral responsibility goes further, reflecting the need for corporations to address fundamental ethical issues such as inclusion, dignity, and equality.

Fishermen and coaches have one thing in common: both need to be very patient.

We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people.

Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward Heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.

Although humans see reality in colour, for me, black and white has always been connected to the image's deeper truth, to its most hidden meaning.

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.

He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.

War is like love; it always finds a way.

Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.

To give somebody your time is the biggest gift you can give.

I may not be the most physically tough player, but I think mentally I'm right up there.

The sweet quality is set opposite to the bitter, and is a gracious, amiable, blessed and pleasant quality, a refreshing of the life, an allaying of the fierceness. It maketh all pleasant and friendly in every creature; it maketh the vegetables of the earth fragrant and of good taste, affording fair, yellow, white and ruddy colours.

I assumed no one would ever listen to my music, and for quite a lot of years, I was right.

Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

I choose to be a goalkeeper.

I write my own lyrics; I can incorporate my own ideas. And yes, apparently, people think it's cool. That's pretty awesome.

I identify with my womanhood before anything else because that's what I deal with when I am alone.

There is a beauty in nature and culture that we no longer have access to. Those things you can't forget, you embroider... The further you tell, the further you travel from truth, which means, of course, that literature is a lie.

I've learned a tremendous amount over the years by watching designers work. I now have a good understanding of what sits well on the body, not to mention the importance of a great cut and quality.

You can't change what happened. But you can still change what will happen.

Once something is a passion, the motivation is there.

I come from a background where you don't show off the good things you do. It's modesty.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

The only journey is the one within.

VW grows with the challenges. We continue to do, even when times are tough.

There's so much going on in the world. There's so much information being thrown at us - so many things are being sold to us, and we're being told how we should appear and how to be more successful, blah, blah, blah. How does that manifest itself? In the pressures, the stress, this need to escape.

Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.

All knowledge of cultural reality, as may be seen, is always knowledge from particular points of view.

Sometimes my heart hurts so much, I beat it with my fists. I try to run. But you cannot run from this. It waits for you. Even when you think you have escaped it, it is there.

The goal is to win in F1. That is the aim.

One is either destroyed by adapting or for refusing to.

The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of changing their views to fit the facts, they try to change the facts to fit their views.

In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.

I liked Germany; I'm not into Berlin, it's too huge and empty and imposing, but Munich was good.

Black and white means photography to me. It's much easier to take a good color photograph, but you can get more drama into a black and white one.

I am what I am. I'm not going to get plastic surgery. I had this discussion with my younger son. We were at a dermatologist, and this dermatologist suggested to me that I wanted to avoid wrinkles. Those wrinkles show that I have laughed a lot in my life, why should I want to erase that? Why would I erase the traces of my life which I loved?

Do some selfless service for people who are in need. Consider the whole picture, not just our little selves.

The best way to investigate the elusive phenomenon called the creative process may well be to target all the misconceptions, to explain what the creative process is not.

Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national solidarity and the idea of international cooperation.

Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

You have to believe in the unrealistic to do something extraordinary - to create a miracle.

What's great about acting is that there's never a moment when you're like, 'OK, I got this, I understand this.' You're portraying life, and it's a craft that only gets better with time - kind of like playing a musical instrument: the more you get to play it, the better you are.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same.

I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I Love to play.

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War.

Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.

We need democracy - but right now democracy needs us! It needs self-assured citizens who have confidence and drive, common sense and decency, and who show solidarity with others.

God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.

I have done martial arts my whole life, so it comes easily, but I have never done proper sword fighting.

These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition.

Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.