Werfel Quotes

#1. Everything in this world is primarily a matter of morals, and only very much later one of politics.

Franz Werfel

#2. If you only do what you know you can do- you never do very much.

Tom Krause

#3. He couldn't put on a coaching session to save his life. I've spoken to people about him and he can barely lay out cones.

Joey Barton

#4. Yes, death is strong, but look you, the strongest, Stronger is music than death.

Franz Werfel

#5. 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

#6. If you look at a map of Europe you will observe that Greece is a skeleton-like hand stretching its crooked fingers out into the Mediterranean Sea.

Will Durant

#7. Happiness is ... the grace of being permitted to unfold ... all the spiritual powers planted within us.

Franz Werfel

#8. Between too early and too late, there is never more than a moment.

Franz Werfel

#9. It seems essential to try to find some meaning to life and I guess Jungian philosophy is the one that's helped me understand myself and the world more than anything else.

Noah Taylor

#10. When was the last time you had a good belly-shaking-tear-jerking-snot-producing laugh?
That long?

Osayi Emokpae Lasisi

#11. Magnify the divine mystery and the holiness of mankind.

Franz Werfel

#12. The old sporadic fanaticism of religious hatred had been skillfully perverted into the cold, steady fanaticism of national hate.

Franz Werfel

#13. Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.

Franz Werfel

#14. I carried my Oscar to bed with me. My first and only three-way happened that night.

Halle Berry

#15. . . . failure is also the stern parent of truth. (p525)

Franz Werfel

#16. We belong far less to where we've come from than where we want to go.

Franz Werfel

#17. 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

#18. And mortal terror in a female was Z's favorite turn-on. He got off on it like most males favored crap from Victoria's Secret.

J.R. Ward

#19. False ideals cannot be shattered by criticism. Right ideals must take up the battle against them.

Franz Werfel

#20. The basic formula of all sin is: frustrated or neglected love.

Franz Werfel

#21. I think the challenges for me was to go into the studio with these incredible jazz players and come up to their level of excellence. That's always a challenge.

Rita Coolidge