Quotes by Joseph Roth

“I think its our unique product selection and the idea that everything we sell only can be purchased at Ikea.”

“We have everything for the home under one roof. We intend our stores to sell only our products. That contributes to our uniqueness.”

“We need an area with a population of at least 2 million people to support one store. For many years, we were looking for a second Chicago-area location, and were thrilled with the opportunity in Bolingbrook.”

“In North America, we only plan on opening four to five stores a year, while other chains look to open that many in one metro area in a year.”

“Most of Northwest Indiana technically is within the Chicago media market.”

“We go where the location works for our customers and our store operations. We were not lured. We go where the location is attractive. If we wanted to go to places where things were free, we would be somewhere else. . . . If we can secure some assistance from a local municipality, we are always welcome to it, but it does not determine where within the market we go.”

“We hope to be fully enclosed by winter and cannot wait to open Ikea Canton,”

“We hope to be fully enclosed by winter and cannot wait to open Ikea Canton.”

“Opening stores is something we do very well and we are continuing to work with local organizations to not only handle those issues but also to help other area business to take advantage of our traffic.”

“You do a little, we do a little, we all save a lot.”

An indescribable sadness emanated from the white splendour of the staircase and balustrade; the blood-red, now almost black splendour of the carpets. The huge palms in their huge pots looked like they had recently arrived from the cemetery. Their dark green leaves also looked blackish, like wizened, perished weapons from olden days.

They talk about prohibition in America. What can one do in a country such as that?   What does one do in America when one is sad - without alcohol? asks Zwonimir.

Anyone called upon to view misery will view criminality differently. All state officials should be required to spend a month serving in a homeless shelter to learn love.

I might be capable of making figures that have heart, conscience, passion, emotion and decency. But theres no call for that at all in the world. People are only interested in monsters and freaks, so I give them their monsters. Monsters are what they want!

I am not a man of my time. In fact I find it hard not to declare myself its enemy. Not, as I often remark, that I fail to understand it. My comment is merely a pious one. Because I am easy-going I prefer not to be aggressive or hostile and therefore I say that I do not understand those matters which I ought to say I hate or despise. I have sharp hears but I pretend to be hard of hearing, finding as I do that is more elegant to feign this handicap than to admit that I have heard some vulgar sound

I am alone. My heart beats only for myself. The strikers mean nothing to me. I have nothing in common with the mob, nor with individuals. I am a cold person. In the war I did not feel I was part of my company. We all lay in the same mud and waited for the same death. But I could think only about my own life and death. I would step over corpses and it oftened saddened me that I could feel no pain.

He took the Captain as he was, and was fond of him, with his cheery heartlessness, his incapacity to think beyond a couple of thoughts, for which his skull was far too roomy, his insignificant love affairs and childish infatuations, and the pointless and unconnected remarks that came out of his mouth, seemingly at random. He was a mediocre officer, who didnt care about his comrades, his men, his career.

Morning birdsong filled the room. For all his high opinion of birds, privileged among Gods creatures, still, deep in his heart, the Emperor did not trust them, just as he did not trust artists.