Top 37 Ist Quotes
#1. Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all. If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.
Milan Kundera
#2. I'm often asked - and occasionally in an accusatory way - 'Are you atheist?' And it's like, 'You know, the only 'ist' I am is a scientist, all right?' I don't associate with movements. I'm not an 'ism.' I just - I think for myself.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#3. I was a me-ist. I believed in the right to do whatever I wanted to do regardless of gender. Still do.
Suzi Quatro
#6. On examinations: Das Wissen ist der Tad der Forschung.
Knowledge is the death of research.
Nernst's motto.
Walther Nernst
#7. Religion is the opium of the people translated from the German Die Religion ... ist das Opium des Volkessometimes misquoted as opiate of the people.
Karl Marx
#8. I never considered Miles Davis a perfectionist; I always considered him as an excellence-ist, where deviation is actually kind of cool.
Charlie Trotter
#10. As a man is, so is his God; therefore God was so often an object of mockery.
[Ger., Wie einer ist, so ist sein Gott,
Darum ward Gott so oft zu Spott.]
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#11. I used to be such a militant city-ist, but more and more I've seen forests and nature and oceans, and I don't know any more if this is the awesomest way to live.
Regina Spektor
#12. For the nature of a women is closely allied to art.
[Ger., Denn das Naturell der Frauen
Ist so nah mit Kunst verwandt.]
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#14. Hollywood is sexist and age-ist, and that covers all the bases, I guess.
Kyra Sedgwick
#16. Aus so krummen Holze, als woraus der Mensch gemacht ist, kann nichts ganz Gerades gezimmert werden. Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing can ever be made.
Immanuel Kant
#17. Mr. Smith was an art-ist, as well as an in-vent-or, and he paint-ed a pic-ture of a riv-er which was so nat-ur-al that, as he was reach-ing a-cross it to paint some flow-ers on the op-po-site bank, he fell in-to the wa-ter and was drowned.
L. Frank Baum
#18. Mutter Erde ist keine Maschine
Henry Red Cloud is the direct 5th generation descendant of Chief Red Cloud
Henry Red Cloud
#19. There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste.
[Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.]
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#20. Absolutely, but let me qualify that-I consider myself an authentic feminist. Not as defined by the modern movement. And, let me clarify that a little bit more. I was an English major, so break it down: -ist means one who celebrates. As a feminist, I celebrate my femininity.
Christine O'Donnell
#21. Einmal ist keinmal. What happens but once might as well not have happened at all.
Milan Kundera
#22. No, no! The devil is an egotist,
And is not apt, without why or wherefore,
"For God's sake," others to assist.
[Ger., Nein, nein! Der Teufel ist ein Egoist
Und thut nicht leicht um Gottes Willen,
Was einem Andern nutzlich ist.]
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#23. I don't know, maybe I made it up. Anyway, it's an arbo-tree-ist, somebody who knows about trees.
George W. Bush
#25. He stood a few meters from the step and spoke with great conviction, great joy.
"Alles ist Scheisse," he announced.
All is shit.
Markus Zusak
#26. The assertion that you are in falsehood and I am in truth ist the most cruel thing one man can say to another
Leo Tolstoy
#27. A penny saved is of more value than a penny paid out (Der Sparpfennig ist reicher denn der Zinspfenning).
Martin Luther
#28. Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gatt gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk.
The dear God has made the whole numbers, all the rest is man's work.
Leopold Kronecker
#29. Wir sind nichts; was wir suchen ist alles. (We are nothing; what we search for is everything.)
Friedrich Holderlin
#30. To blow is not to play on the flute; you must move the fingers.
[Ger., Blasen ist nicht floten, ihr musst die Finger bewegen.]
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#31. Wo Hunger herrscht, ist auf die Dauer kein Friede."
("Where there is hunger, there cannot be lasting peace.)
Speech before the United Nations General Assembly, September 26, 1973
Willy Brandt
#32. Boston's "That is good" is Berlin's "Das ist gut." It's an excellent way to start and leaves the listener thinking, 'Hey, Ich kann do dis.' :D
David Sedaris
#33. Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest.
[Ger., Wo viel Licht is, ist starker Schatten.]
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#34. Die Welt der Kunst & Fantasie ist die wahre, the rest is a nightmare.
Arno Hintjens
#36. Charakter ist Schicksal. Historie ist Gott.
J.M. Coetzee
#37. Ein einziger dankbarer Gedanke gen Himmel ist das vollkommenste Gebet. One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
