Quotes About Nicht

#1. So poets keep on trying, and sooner or later the consecutive results of their self-dissatisfaction are clipped together with a giant paperclip by literary historians and called their oeuvres.

Wislawa Szymborska

#2. In a human development sense, our understanding of leadership has essentially "grown up" and moved past personal ego and a self-centered view of things.

Linda Fisher Thornton

#3. It's never occurred to me to worry about my health, or that I'll get old, or that people will stop laughing at me.

Frank Carson

#4. 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

#5. Der Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will.
Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#6. Mine is a misery which nothing can do away.

Jane Austen

#7. The spirit is the true self.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#8. The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else.

James Agate

#9. Mythology is to relate found truth to the living of a life.

Joseph Campbell

#10. 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

#11. Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past.
[Ger., Wer kann was Dummes, wer was Kluges denken,
Das nicht die Vorwelt schon gedacht.]

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#12. Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him! [Ger., Du bist noch nicht der Mann den Teufel festzuhalten.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#13. I don't know. I don't know what I'm supposed to be. Or how I find out.

Alexis Hall

#14. Gude nicht, and joy be wi' you a'.

Carolina Nairne

#15. It was well said of a certain German book that 'er lasst sich nicht lesen" - it does not permit itself to be read.

Edgar Allan Poe

#16. Ah Life,
Thou art a false truth!

Raheel Farooq

#17. Mircea leaned over to refill my wineglass, and a section of his bare chest showed under the robe, along with a hint of dusky nipple. It's a good thing I'm too stuffed to move, I thought hazily. I would so have jumped that.

Karen Chance

#18. These are modern times, nicht? Not our grandmother's days. There's more to life than finding some lord and master and being under his thumb. I swear I'll never live in such a prison!

Phyllis Edgerly Ring

#19. When you face yourself, you face the truth of who you are.

Stephen Richards

#20. Ruhe gibt es nicht, bis zum Schluss. Und dann? Auch am Schluss steht noch ein Fragezeichen.
(There is no peace until the end and even then there would still be a question mark.)

Klaus Mann

#21. Speculation, like nature, abhors a vacuum.

Baruch Spinoza

#22. When I came back from my first TED, very few people knew what it was. But around the time I was sitting down to write 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette,' in 2010, TED was exploding.

Maria Semple