Zitate

In wenigen Stunden werde ich im besseren Leben sein, bei meiner Mutter, und ich werde euch nicht vergessen, werde bei Gott um Trost und Ruhe für euch bitten. Und werde auf euch warten! Eins vor allem lege ich euch ans Herz: Vergesst Gott nicht!

So erklärt sich auch meine Gegnerschaft zum Nationalsozialismus. In der gegenwärtigen Zeit konnte ich mich also nicht damit begnügen nur ein stiller Gegner des Nationalsozialismus zu sein, sondern ich sah mich in der Sorge um das Schicksal zweier Völker verpflichtet, meinen Teil zur Veränderung der Verfassung des Reiches beizutragen.

Denn nichts ist schöner, als die Freiheit des Gedankens und die Selbstständigkeit des eigenen Willens, wenn man sie nicht fürchtet. Hier versucht man, uns sie zu rauben und sie uns vergessen zu machen oder sich von ihr zu trennen, aber das wird ihnen nicht gelingen!

Inmitten einer Welt der brutalen Negation erkenne ich die positiven Werte. Die Schatten sind um des Lichts willen da. Aber das erste ist das Licht.

Wenn ich auch nicht viel von Politik verstehe und auch nicht den Ehrgeiz habe, es zu tun, so habe ich doch ein bißchen ein Gefühl, was Recht und Unrecht ist. Denn dies hat ja mit Politik und Nationalität nichts zu tun.

Frieden ist nicht Abwesenheit von Krieg.

Früher durfte man verhältnismäßig wenig sagen, denn es wurde genau hingehört. Heute darf man alles sagen, denn keiner hört hin.

Der deutsche Polizist ist der demokratischste der Welt. Er prügelt ohne auf Geschlecht, Rasse und Religion zu achten.

I want to become one of the best players, so if you want to be one the best, you have to elevate all aspects of your game.

If you are going to do something, you have to do it for yourself, and that's what I try to do. I try to be authentic and try to be original, so that's what I try to be. A lot of people try to build big brands but have received bad advice, and they don't try to be authentic and real with themselves.

I was selling stuff probably since I could remember, like 6 or 7 years old. I was always out there helping my mom and dad sell watches, glasses, CDs, DVDs, stuff like that. Whatever we could put our hands on. I did it until I was around 17. But I was just doing it because I had to. There was no other option.

It's my nature to be fearless.

Whatever I try to do, I always try to give it my best and try to be a killer because, at the end of the day, if you don't work hard, you are not going to get food on your table.

When everyone at school is speaking one language, and a lot of your classmates' parents also speak it, and you go home and see that your community is different -there is a sense of shame attached to that. It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.

You know, failure hurts. Any kind of failure stings. If you live in the sting, you will - undoubtedly - fail. My way of getting past the sting is to say no, I'm just not going to let this get me down.

There are uses to adversity, and they don't reveal themselves until tested. Whether it's serious illness, financial hardship, or the simple constraint of parents who speak limited English, difficulty can tap unexpected strengths.

I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences.

We educated, privileged lawyers have a professional and moral duty to represent the underrepresented in our society, to ensure that justice exists for all, both legal and economic justice.

Is my body a temple, or is my life a temple? I'm definitely in the latter category, and I think my life has been better since thinking that way.

You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.

The truth is my love life has been a lot more turbulent than I have let on.

I have never thought about my sexuality being right or wrong. To me it has always been a case of finding the right person.

It takes so much strength to say to your ego, 'You know what? You're going to keep me lonely, so I have to ignore you.'

I never considered myself a writer. I'm a teacher. In a way, I feel kind of... kind of guilty for all the people who are writers who hope to be on the best-seller list someday, who live for that and don't get it, and it came to me as a kind of free gift, like God coming to Abraham and announcing, 'I've chosen you!'

Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

Die Liebe benötigt eine ganz besondere und unbegreifliche Mischung aus Verständnis und Missverständnis.

Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.

Ein Foto ist ein Geheimnis. Je mehr es dir sagt, desto weniger weißt du.

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.

This photographing is really the business of stealing.

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.

I am so like Donna it's funny. And most of my friends are guys too.

Ich gucke mir so ziemlich alles auf Netflix an, und wenn möglich, schaue ich alle Folgen einer Serie am Stück.

For me, personally, I watch pretty much everything on Netflix, and I watch all the episodes in a row, when I can.

Man will immer seinen Soulmate finden, seine große Liebe. Aber bis es so weit ist, muss man eine Menge Frösche küssen.

Sure you want to meet that soul mate and fall in love and have the big thing, but until that happens, you gotta kiss a lot of frogs.

I never think of myself as any kind of sex symbol, but I get letters from all over, all sorts. It's really cool. I get a lot from inmates, which is kind of scary. But the best was the guy who wanted to send me a plane ticket to fly me to his prom.

I like to think I'll just be walking down the street one day and stop and meet someone, like, 'Oh my God, you're awesome,' and then we start dating.

Man macht Filme um Menschen abzulenken, sie für etwas zu interessieren, zum Nachdenken zu bewegen und sie vielleicht sogar ein kleines bisschen besser zu machen.

You make a film to distract people, to interest them, perhaps to make them think, perhaps to help them be a little less naive, a little better than they were.

My father wanted me to be a pharmacist like himself. He had been a doctor, but he no longer believed in medicine; so he became a pharmacist, but he believed in that hardly more.

You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue.

There is no new wave, only the sea.

Dummheit ist viel faszinierender als Intelligenz. Intelligenz hat ihre Grenzen, Dummheit nicht.

Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.

Mit dem Alter verdient man sich das Recht, sich selbst treu zu bleiben.

With aging, you earn the right to be loyal to yourself.

Ich bin nicht sehr erfahren in der Politik. Aber ich habe gelernt, dass die größte Herausforderung jeder politischen Kampagne darin liegt, zu gewinnen ohne zu zeigen, dass man des Gewinnens unwürdig ist.

I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

Kommunismus ist ein korrumpierter Traum von Gerechtigkeit.

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.

Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.

My position has always been that the way people age and the signs that we show of aging is nature's way of tattooing. It's natural scarification, and the life you lead gives you the symbols and the emblems of your life, the road map you followed.