Almost 20 percent of the people living in Germany today have a foreign background. The problem is that Germany can’t really offer foreigners an identity because the Germans hardly have a national identity themselves. That is certainly a result of Auschwitz.
BASSAM TIBIDisappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.
More Uncategorized Quotes
-
-
Nothing born of sun and storms is ever weak in any form.
W. SHAYK -
That’s the fine balance of a fiction writer…to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still maintain some kind of artistic control.
ALAN LIGHTMAN -
Patriotism, in the trenches, was too remote a sentiment, and at once rejected as fit only for civilians, or prisoners. A new arrival who talked patriotism would soon be told to cut it out.
ROBERT GRAVES -
You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
ALAN BENNETT -
Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
GORE VIDAL -
I want to be a mature artist with a different kind of thinking.
MARIA CALLAS -
Filling my mind with pleasant thoughts is the quickest road to health.
LOUISE HAY -
Whenever you find a good idea, search for the owner to honour him!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN -
The greatest ability is dependability.
BOB JONES, SR. -
The years go by one after the other; time slips past us with out our being aware of it; we grow old like ordinary men and we shall end like them.
LOUIS XIV -
The more you extend kindness to yourself, the more it will become your automatic response to others.
WAYNE DYER -
When your intentions are very pure and clear, nature brings support to you.
SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR -
We just have to hope and pray that this man [Donald Trump] is changed in terms of how he views the world community.
AL SHARPTON -
Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time.
NAPOLEON HILL -
Since we’re all going to die, it’s obvious that when and how don’t matter.
ALBERT CAMUS