Nergens Frans Quotes & Sayings

I'm a cage, in search of a bird. — Franz Kafka

The terrible thing is that one cannot be a Communist and not let oneself in for the shameful act of recantation. One cannot be a Communist and preserve an iota of one's personal integrity. — Milovan Djilas

And through all the misery, she said that some of us in this lifetime experience a moment of beauty beyond reckoning. I asked her what that was, and she said, If you're one of the lucky ones, you'll know it when you see it. You'll understand why the gods have made you suffer. Because that moment's reward will make your knees weak and everything you've suffered in life will pale in comparison. — Melina Marchetta

You think a few features scattered on your face make you plain? I am ugly to the core. All England knows it. And after reading through my papers, you must know it. You sifted through a mountain of my misdeeds. Of course you'd build a wall around your heart. You're a clever girl. How could you love this? How could anyone?"
~Ransom — Tessa Dare

To be able to work with people who I have respected and admired, to be a part of something like the Cannes Film Festival, is surreal and brilliant. — Luke Evans

Consider once before you give, twice before you receive, and a thousand times before you ask. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Who knows what would have become of me, if my parents had not had their influence on me. — Otto Schily

Democracy turns upon and devours itself. Universal suffrage, in theory the palladium of our liberties, becomes the assurance of our slavery. And that slavery will grow more and more abject and ignoble as the differential birth rate, the deliberate encouragement of mendicancy and the failure of popular education produce a larger and larger mass of prehensile half-wits, and so make the demagogues more and more secure. — H.L. Mencken

Such is the love of praise, so great the anxiety for victory. — Virgil

If only one fifth of your spells work you have real power. If only one fifth of your divinations work you have a serious disability. — Peter J. Carroll

I was born in 1949 - which seems like a long time ago ... Actually, it is a long time ago, when I think about it. — Rick Wakeman

God is either your worst enemy or your best friend. — Matthew Henry

There is no reason to change this system. I don't think we'll abandon it. For us the most important thing is to be compact in the back. That's the kind of game we have to play here and it will be very difficult to beat us. — Oliver Kahn