"German can take a lot more pathos than English can. When you say "pathetic" in English it's a disparaging term, but when you say "pathetisch" in German it's just a description, not necessarily negative. That says a lot already."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Daniel Kehlmann

#Negative Quotes #Description Quotes #Pathos Quotes

“Just look at the great Nelson Mandela. He came out of prison and saved his entire country. Some of the best people in the world have spent time in prison.”
“I just change with the times. I really don't have a say in what's going on. Music was here before me.”
“I would advocate that chocolate be covered by health insurance, but that is admittedly a very French public policy perspective.”

Source : Mireille Guiliano (2013). “French Women For All Seasons: A Year of Secrets, Recipes & Pleasure”, p.194, Random House
“Cancer has pizzazz, box office and glamour, and in actual dollars and prestige, even heart and mental can't hold a candle to it. It's a health dodge with a future and everybody who's anybody is jumping in...”
“It is in the quiet crucible of your personal, private sufferings that your noblest dreams are born and God's greatest gifts are given.”
“Another of Cicero's maxims was that if you must do something unpopular, you might as well do it wholeheartedly, for in politics there is no credit to be won by timidity.”
“The living model never answers well the idea or impressions the painter wishes to express; one must, therefore, learn to do without one, and for that, you must acquire facility, furnish one's memory to the point of infinitude, and make numerous drawings after the old masters.”
“That this gentleman [President John Adams] ought not to be the object of the federal wish, is, with me, reduced to demonstration. His administration has already very materially disgraced and sunk the government. There are defects in his character which must inevitably continue to do this more and more. And if he is supported by the federal party, his party must in the issue fall with him.”

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