Werfel And Werfel Quotes & Sayings

All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence. — Samuel Johnson

No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop your books and run like hell — Stephen Chbosky

Yes, death is strong, but look you, the strongest, Stronger is music than death. — Franz Werfel

Magnify the divine mystery and the holiness of mankind. — Franz Werfel

I regarded it more as an honor than a disgrace to be permitted to share this fate of the complete destruction of literary existence in Germany with such eminent contemporaries as Thomas Mann, Heinrich Mann, Werfel, Freud, Einstein, and many others whose work I consider incomparably more important than my own, — Stefan Zweig

For many people it is depressing even to move house. A lost fragment of life always remains. To move to another town, settle in a foreign country, is for everyone a major decision. But, to be suddenly driven forth, within twenty-four hours, from one's home, one's work, the reward of years of steady industry. To become a helpless prey of help. To be sent defenceless out to Asiatic highroads, with several thousand miles of dust, stones, and morass before one. To know that one will never again find a decently human habitation, never again sit down to a proper table. Yet this is all nothing. To be more shackled than any convict. To be counted as outside the law, a vagabond, whom anyone has the right to kill unpunished. — Franz Werfel

Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy. — Franz Werfel

Penny rolled over, got to her feet, trying to get control of her scattered mind, but Quinn was behind her now and had his powerful arm around her neck.
"I will snap your neck, Penny. I swear to God, I will snap your neck. Nothing you can do will stop me."
Penny went limp. "You think the king will let you get away with this, Quinn?" she hissed.
"Anyone messes with me, Penny, you or anyone else, and I go on strike. See how well you enjoy life without me and my crews. Without food. — Michael Grant

Between too early and too late, there is never more than a moment. — Franz Werfel

The lack of facts holds you back. The odds are stacked against a weak mind. — Kool Moe Dee

The essence of good manners consists in making it clear that one has no wish to hurt. When it is clearly necessary to hurt, it must be done in such a way as to make it evident that the necessity is felt to be regrettable. — Bertrand Russell

Every man and every nation at one time or other becomes the weak. That's why nobody should tolerate persecution, let alone extermination, as a precedent. (p581) — Franz Werfel

False ideals cannot be shattered by criticism. Right ideals must take up the battle against them. — Franz Werfel

We belong far less to where we've come from than where we want to go. — Franz Werfel

Your attitude defines your results and dictates your experience. — Kyle Barger

The basic formula of all sin is: frustrated or neglected love. — Franz Werfel

I am a Crank, Minho! I am a Crank! Why can't you get that through your bloody head? If you had the Flare and knew what you were about to go through, would you want your friends to stand around and watch? Huh? Would you want that? — James Dashner

Everything in this world is primarily a matter of morals, and only very much later one of politics. — Franz Werfel

Sometimes the house of the future is better built, lighter and larger than all the houses of the past, so that the image of the dream house is opposed to that of the childhood home. Late in life, with indomitable courage, we continue to say that we are going to do what we have not yet done: we are going to build a house. This dream house may be merely a dream of ownership, the embodiment of everything that is considered convenient, comfortable, healthy, sound, desirable, by other people. It must therefore satisfy both pride and reason, two irreconcilable terms. — Gaston Bachelard

Happiness is ... the grace of being permitted to unfold ... all the spiritual powers planted within us. — Franz Werfel

Like biblical literalists, Republicans assert that the Constitution is divinely inspired and inerrant. But also like biblical literalists, they are strangely selective about those portions of their favorite document that they care to heed, and they favor rewriting it when it stands in the way of their political agenda. — Mike Lofgren

I will always call Darmstadt, Indiana, home. — Richard Mourdock

I dropped you on your head when you were a baby," she shrugged so damn casually. "We can't be perfect, Laney. — Kimberly Lauren

Which road, which road did you take
That brought you here at last?

No road, no road did I take.
I leaped, I leaped from dream to dream.

— Franz Werfel

I think the gains to be achieved by a combination of reforms and labor market adjustments are going to be more permanent and will provide a basis for reducing unemployment and improving export performance, and sustaining growth, in a way that is more sound and permanent. — Lucas Papademos

Murder, arson, adultery, drugging and drinking, cruel politics
reading a book crammed with such activities can make the timid and yearning among us feel like the happiest people in the world. — Edith Pearlman

No one has a right to hoard things which he cannot use. — Carrie Jacobs-Bond

The old sporadic fanaticism of religious hatred had been skillfully perverted into the cold, steady fanaticism of national hate. — Franz Werfel

. . . failure is also the stern parent of truth. (p525) — Franz Werfel