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Birgit Von Schondorf


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Ein Teil von jener Kraft, die stets das Böse will und stets das Gute schafft.

-Goethe-
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Eine Move bin ich von keinem Land,
Meine Heimat nenne ich keinen Srrand,
Mich bindet nich...
EMPRESS ELIZABETH Those who have trusted where they ought not,
will surely mistrust where they ought not."
<...
ALEATHA ROMIG Investigation?" Isabelle laughed. "Now we're detectives? Maybe we should all have code names."
...
CASSANDRA CLARE They are completely different players. Birgit is a strong physical player. And she's like a shark. S...
CHARMAINE HOOPER Nichts kommt von selbst. Und nur wenig ist von Dauer. Darum — besinnt Euch auf Eure Kraft und dara...
WILLY BRANDT Wie befreit man die Erde von den Menschen? Indem man die Menschen von ihrer Menschlichkeit befreit.
RICK YANCEY Über des Propheten Gebein ist jedes Staubkorn
ein Pfeiler von Licht,
Aufrecht von der Ku...
AL-FAITURI Daher ist die Dichtkunst Sache von phantasiebegabten oder von leidenschaftlichen Naturen; die einen ...
ARISTOTLE Im Jahr 1970 noch protestierten Feministinnen gegen die Vergegenständlichung von Frauen in mondäne...
KATHLEEN BARRY Wäre ich ein Zimmermann, würde ich dir ein Fenster zu meiner Seele zimmern.
Wenn du hineinsch...
COLLEEN HOOVER I commend my soul to any god that can find it.
TERRY PRATCHETT In Begleitung von erlesenen Schmerzen.« Rincewind zögerte. Er war ziemlich sicher, die Bedeutung d...
TERRY PRATCHETT I'm not bitter about Hollywood's treatment of me, but of its treatment of Griffith, von Sternberg, B...
ORSON WELLES I came to Berlin not to visit its museums and galleries, its operas, its theaters... but for the sak...
BAYARD TAYLOR Like Prince von Bismarck in diplomacy, I have no secrets.
ALBERT J. NOCK I came from across the ocean and through the wilderness and landed here and found you hiding behind ...
GWENN WRIGHT You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there's still going to be somebody who hates...
DITA VON TEESE Students, eh? Love 'em or hate 'em, you can't hit them with a shovel!
TERRY PRATCHETT We can't just drop everything, sir!"
"Mister Lipwig. Is there something in the word 'tyrant' yo...
TERRY PRATCHETT Yet without Chaos there would be no Creation, and perhaps no Creator. That is the simple truth of al...
MICHAEL MOORCOCK The Führer's judgement will be proved right - again.'
'Of course it will, Erik.'
'He has ...
KEN FOLLETT (On Baron von Blixen:)

Six feet of amiable Swede and, to my knowledge, the toughest, most...
BERYL MARKHAM No one has characterized market mechanisms better than Friedrich von Hayek.
HERBERT SIMON It was two years ago during spring VON. No one came.
JEFF PULVER Mit deinen Augen, welche müde kaum
von der verbrauchten Schwelle sich befrein,
hebst du g...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Er macht mir Angst", gestand ich ihr.
Sie gab ein Prustton von sich. "Bei mir ist er die Liebe...
SAMANTHA YOUNG Try repeating “man is an animal" a few times, just to notice how unconvincing it sounds. There see...
ERNEST BECKER Ich bin gern erlöst von meinem Spiegelbild, von der Frage, wie ich aussehe. Auch ohne Spiegel weiß...
PAULINE DEBOK I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE »Ist euch schon mal aufgefallen, dass es keine Dynastie für Mörder, Vergewaltiger oder Diebe gibt...
NICOLE GOZDEK Nahestehende zu überleben erfordert eine besondere Art von Mut, sagte sie leise.
KATE MOSSE To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another. -G.W. Von Leibnitz.
G.W. VON LEIBNITZ If you asked an 18-year-old what they want to do with their life, and the options are 'Transform...
SHIA LABEOUF It's hard for any team when you lose world-class players, but you saw today that we have some young ...
BIRGIT PRINZ I was a little angry about being back 2-0, ... I think they were a little too slow ... just at the e...
BIRGIT PRINZ I was a little angry about being back 2-0. I think they were a little too slow ... just at the end w...
BIRGIT PRINZ I'm totally surprised. I never expected this big win.
BIRGIT PRINZ I was a little angry about being back 2-0, ... I think they were a little too slow .Ãâ�...
BIRGIT PRINZ Why stop? It's always good for players' confidence when they score.
BIRGIT PRINZ That was many spectators for a friendly game, and I think they have fun.
BIRGIT PRINZ In 1999, we were a little frightened, ... We were thinking, 'Don't give me the ball, don't give me t...
BIRGIT PRINZ uneven and dusty pitches which no-one in Germany would consider playing on.
BIRGIT PRINZ I will never forget the beaming faces of the children,
BIRGIT PRINZ I was a little angry about being back 2-0, ... I think they were a little too slow . . . just at t...
BIRGIT PRINZ Anyone 60 or older can join.
BIRGIT BRIGGS I know the seniors are in great hands with Leta and Angela. Leta has worked with the seniors since 1...
BIRGIT BRIGGS The building was home to the National Guard Armory until 1976 when plans to have a civic center in t...
BIRGIT BRIGGS The best advertisement for us is people telling people. If organizers have a successful event and th...
BIRGIT BRIGGS In the last few years we have more than doubled the events that take place at the center. We average...
BIRGIT BRIGGS No more rhymes now I mean it!”

“Anybody want a peanut?”

“AAHH!
WILLIAM GOLDMAN If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine. - Johann Christoph Friedrich v...
JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Faust complained about having two souls in his breast, but I harbor a whole crowd of them and they q...
OTTO VON BISMARCK Let them stew in their own grease (or juice). - Karl Otto von Schonhausen Bismarck,
KARL OTTO VON SCHONHAUSEN BISMARCK Religion ist nichts anderes als die Lehre davon, wie man frei von Erkenntnis gehorcht [...].
JULI ZEH Die derzeitigen und früheren Bewohner von Nulle wussten, wie abgründige Trauer den Geist zerfrisst...
KATE MOSSE Meistens herrschte die betäubende Stille von menschlichen Gehirnen, die sich allmählich in Schmelz...
TERRY PRATCHETT The Danish filmmakers are a unique breed of filmmakers, with the Dogme films and Lars von Trier.
PIERCE BROSNAN Beschwichtigend hob Rafael die Arme. „Ganz ruhig. Was ist passiert?“
Erbost schüttelte Sel...
MARTINA RIEMER Adrian!You Used compulsion on that guy. That.... I mean, it's....."

"Awesome?Yeah,I Know
RICHELLE MEAD Neue Bücher rochen nach Druckerschwärze, nach Leim, nach Erwartungen. Alte Bücher dufteten nach A...
KAI MEYER Two souls, alas! reside within my breast, and each withdraws from and repels its brother. [Ger.,...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE After the verb "To Love"..."To Help" is the most beautiful verb in the world. -Bertha Von Suttner.
BERTHA VON SUTTNER Birgit was unique! Her voice, her artistry, her sense of humor and her friendship were in a class of...
JAMES LEVINE Carl von Rokitansky is one of the founders of scientific medicine and systematized it, looking at wh...
ERIC KANDEL Buff: What are you doing now?

Bee-Bee: I don't know. You mean like now? Like right now? W...
ERIC BOGOSIAN Some people
Are worthy of a bullet straight
to the heart because that is where
cruelt...
ELLEN HOPKINS Taste of metal on my tongue. Poison the color of envy-
I'm delirious, you're delicious, I'm del...
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR I used to see dolphins as cute,
Smart and funny sea animals.
I know now that they're ast...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Ich wollte meine Augen öffnen, um Gideon ein letztes Mal anzusehen, aber ich schaffte es nicht.
KERSTIN GIER For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears. [Ger., Denn ein wanderndes Madchen ist immer v...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Wake up naked drinking coffee
Making plans to change the world
While the world is changing...
DAVE MATTHEWS A smile is hidden beneath the mustache, it crinkles the corners of his hooded eyes. “I didn’t. I...
GWENN WRIGHT Of course, if you get David Von Erich, The Bruiser, and Bruiser Brody on a card, I'll bet that would...
LARRY MATYSIK Odd, the words: ‘while away the time’.
How to hold it fast the harder thing.
Who is no...
RAINER MARIA RILKE After two solid weeks of waking up in Damen's bed, wrapped in Damen's arms, you'd think I'd have gro...
ALYSON NOEL Oppression

Now dreams
Are not available
To the dreamers,
Nor songs
To...
LANGSTON HUGHES Anders als die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika haben sich die meisten europäischen Nationalstaaten ...
NAVID KERMANI Aber ich wollte nicht genesen, wenn ich dafür das wenige, das mir von meinem Bruder geblieben war, ...
KATE MOSSE I had someone once who made every day mean something.
And now…. I am lost….
And nothin...
RANATA SUZUKI Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms. [Ger., Die Gaben Kommen von oben herab, in ...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Aha. Und deine Klamotten konnten das liebeskranke Gezicke nicht mehr hören und sind deshalb von dei...
JOSEPHINE ANGELINI Sie kannst du vielleicht täuschen, aber mich nicht."
Er sah mich von der Seite an. Offenbar h...
SAMANTHA YOUNG As a kid...
I used to be insecure and not talk to anyone.
But now that I'm all grown up......
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Neither sugar nor salt tastes particularly good by itself. Each is at its best when used to season o...
VERA NAZARIAN The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were li...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER A bird who hurt her wing,
now forgotten how to fly.

A song she used to sing,
bu...
LANG LEAV The administration has moved quickly and placed the Food and Drug Administration in good hands ... D...
BILLY TAUZIN I just read them for fun."
"Dictionaries?"
"Yes."
"That doesn't sound like fun. That ...
MAX BARRY Saying goodbye doesn't mean
You don't love him anymore,
Nor that you no longer will.
...
JOCELYN SORIANO Zwischen den Zeilen liest man nur, wenn man weiß, wie es ist, umgeben von Worten und Worten die eig...
LILLY LINDNER So. Jetzt läßt das Zucken nach. Jetzt liegst du still. Wir sind am Ende von Physiologie und Theolo...
ALFRED DöBLIN What will you do now?'

I think I will become a monk and devote my entire life to prayer a...
DAVID GEMMELL Clov: Why this farce, day after day?
Hamm: Routine. One never knows. [Pause.] Last night I saw...
SAMUEL BECKETT He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own. [Ger., Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Es ist oft kein geringes Zeichen von Humanität, einen Andern nicht beurteilen zu wollen und sich zu...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The only reason I'm friends with any of you is because I outgrew the von Trapps, one annoying Austri...
LISA MANTCHEV I KNOW I AM CLUELESS,
IT DOESN'T MEAN USELESS,
MY MOM SAYS I AM BLESSED,
EVEN THOUGH ...
MERLIN8THOMAS as long as there are
human beings about
there is never going to be
any peace
for...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Im okay Im okay now.
But you really need to listen to me
'cause im telling you the trut...
GERARD WAY

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BIRGIT PRINZ I was a little angry about being back 2-0. I think they were a little too slow ... just at the end w...
BIRGIT PRINZ I'm totally surprised. I never expected this big win.
BIRGIT PRINZ I was a little angry about being back 2-0, ... I think they were a little too slow .Ãâ�...
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BIRGIT PRINZ In 1999, we were a little frightened, ... We were thinking, 'Don't give me the ball, don't give me t...
BIRGIT PRINZ uneven and dusty pitches which no-one in Germany would consider playing on.
BIRGIT PRINZ I will never forget the beaming faces of the children,
BIRGIT PRINZ I was a little angry about being back 2-0, ... I think they were a little too slow . . . just at t...
BIRGIT PRINZ Anyone 60 or older can join.
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BIRGIT BRIGGS I'm at my best when people are depending on me. If it's just on me and I don't have noth...
VON MILLER I've had asthma my whole life. My mom used to hook the generator up to the Suburban and roll the...
VON MILLER It was measured and copied and photographed, and then someone would get the assignment to replicate ...
VON HARDESTY When I see somebody in a Prius, sure, you drive a Prius and you get good gas mileage, but you probab...
THEO VON What he wanted to do was close a vulnerability to the West; to have an intercontinental, long-range ...
VON HARDESTY He was throwing free and easy, he wasn't struggling with getting his velocity up and basically pitch...
VON HAYES Their pitchers made an adjustment and our hitters didn't. The name of this game is to adjust when th...
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CRISTIANE VON We didn't drive in a run. One was a balk and the other was an error. We missed so many opportunities...
VON HAYES Out of high school, I was, like, 202-205 pounds. My rookie season, I was, like, 245; my second year,...
VON MILLER The 'Road Rules' thing was just something that happened. It was never like when I was little...
THEO VON I got, like, 120 pairs of glasses and 800 pairs of sneakers.
VON MILLER They were found in tombs, beside children. Due to the custom of keeping objects with the dead, Egypt...
CRISTIANE VON I really don't look at myself as a defensive end or a linebacker or a cornerback or a safety. I ...
VON MILLER Oh, how I wish I was a woman—his woman.
A.R. VON As I recall, Gregg didn't have everyone. We got them at a good time. Besides, sum- mer time is summe...
VON GRAFFIN We finished tonight and I had talked about how we didn't finish in the other two games. We felt they...
VON GRAFFIN It's a phenomenal feat of human engineering.
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VON HARDESTY If the government were serious to begin with, we could have avoided a repeat of this type of disaste...
VON HERNANDEZ I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got marr...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG I don't believe in devils. Indifference and misunderstandings can create evil situations. Most o...
MAX VON SYDOW Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ My parents led this double life. They were in the underground movement to bring down the Nazis. My f...
VERUSCHKA VON LEHNDORFF I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to...
VERUSCHKA VON LEHNDORFF It has not been hard to grow older, because I believe if you have something you believe in, that wil...
VERUSCHKA VON LEHNDORFF Fame, I mean, it's like a bubble, in a way. It's like something glittery, and it goes, and i...
VERUSCHKA VON LEHNDORFF In the Sixties, fashion was about liberation. It was about setting women free; it wasn't about b...
VERUSCHKA VON LEHNDORFF Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be.
ROGER VON OECH A vacation spot out of season always has a very special magic.
MAX VON SYDOW Politics is the art of the next best.
OTTO VON BISMARCK Politics is not an exact science.
OTTO VON BISMARCK Politics ruins the character.
OTTO VON BISMARCK Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
OTTO VON BISMARCK A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or rig...
OTTO VON BISMARCK When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of...
OTTO VON BISMARCK To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
OTTO VON BISMARCK No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
OTTO VON BISMARCK A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and g...
OTTO VON BISMARCK I am not very tough with raising my children, but you can argue that to be more tough will help your...
LARS VON TRIER If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots...
LARS VON TRIER You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You ...
LARS VON TRIER When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour...
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LARS VON TRIER Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join ...
LARS VON TRIER I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.
LARS VON TRIER More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas goo...
LARS VON TRIER I know that I cannot be with a person for three hours without saying at least ten things that would ...
LARS VON TRIER I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology.
LARS VON TRIER I'm happy that I'm alive. I feel like someone coming back from Vietnam, you know; I'm su...
LARS VON TRIER I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinkin...
LARS VON TRIER I would say that I am a poor Christian; I'm not a believer. It was this idea very early in my li...
LARS VON TRIER I always do something that I've never done before.
LARS VON TRIER When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth arou...
LARS VON TRIER It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.
LARS VON TRIER Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made wi...
LARS VON TRIER When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
LARS VON TRIER Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself...
LARS VON TRIER My films are about ideals that clash with the world. Every time it's a man in the lead, they hav...
LARS VON TRIER If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
LARS VON TRIER If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misus...
LARS VON TRIER I'm having a vacation, and it's so beautiful, and maybe I'll never get another film idea...
LARS VON TRIER Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.
LARS VON TRIER That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, ...
LARS VON TRIER Political correctness kills discussion.
LARS VON TRIER I have been a Professor Emeritus since 1958, and have continued my scientific studies.
KARL VON FRISCH I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910.
KARL VON FRISCH I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.
KARL VON FRISCH After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vie...
KARL VON FRISCH For both reasons, owing to the thermal motion and to the working together of various wavelengths, fa...
MAX VON LAUE While we maintain the unity of the human species, we at the same time repel the depressing assumptio...
ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT Love therefore
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet,...
MANFRED VON RICHTHOFEN When I started performing, there was no Internet; I didn't really have anything to copy. I kind ...
DITA VON TEESE In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stag...
ADELBERT VON CHAMISSO It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.
ROGER VON OECH Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just t...
JOHANN VON GOETHE We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
WERNER VON BRAUN Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.
ROGER VON OECH The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populat...
WERNER VON BRAUN To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Against stupidity the very gods fight in vain.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Dare to be wrong and to dream.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957 There are three less...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The sam...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Anyone taken as an individual, is tolerably sensible and reasonable- as a member of a crowd, he at o...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Mankind is made great or little by its own will.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and c...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an indispensable and stimulating law ...
FRIEDRICH VON BERNHARDI War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political inter...
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ Without any formal personal finance education or trustworthy resources to tell them otherwise, the m...
ALEXA VON TOBEL Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best
OTTO VON BISMARCK Truth lives on in the midst of deception.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings. The earthquake means go...
LUDWIG VON MISES They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Life is the childhood of our immortality.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER We are shaped and fashioned by what whom we love.
JOHANN VON GOETHE If I love you, what business is it of yours?
JOHANN VON GOETHE Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unp...
JOHANN VON GOETHE That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have...
JOHANN VON GOETHE I'm very good at breaking up with people. Very good. It requires a lot of skill, but what you do...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG At eighty-eight how do you feel when getting up in the morning?...Amazed!
LUDWIG VON MISES He who considers too much will perform little.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER What shall he fear that does not fear death.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Soon is the struggle past, and to the earth,
To the eternal sun, I render back
These atoms, jo...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yield!
Against stupidity the very gods
Themselves contend i...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER War is the province of danger.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political inter...
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must be...
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fa...
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ Politics is the womb in which war develops.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ A conqueror is always a lover of peace.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often ten...
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ To secure peace is to prepare for war.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be consid...
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ Freedom exists only with power.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Before you can do something you must first be something.
JOHANN VON GOETHE How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do th...
JOHANN VON GOETHE The deed is everything, the glory is naught.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnes...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult t...
JOHANN VON GOETHE When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking t...
JOHANN VON GOETHE A useless life is an early death.
JOHANN VON GOETHE A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL There is only one greater folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God, and tha...
OTTO VON BISMARCK CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table ...
OTTO VON BISMARCK Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think ...
OTTO VON BISMARCK A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right ...
OTTO VON BISMARCK The people who think that the power of big business is enormous are mistaken
LUDWIG VON MISES The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you ha...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER If any man wishes to write a clear style, let him first be clear in his thoughts.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Every author in some degree portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
JOHANN VON GOETHE He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.
JOHANN VON GOETHE A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of sol...
JOHANN VON GOETHE In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL I wonder if you know yet that you’ll leave me. That you are a child playing with matches and I hav...
CLEMENTINE VON RADICS If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that u...
JOHANN VON GOETHE What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerful...
JOHANN VON GOETHE We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reac...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER If you treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Girls we love for what they are; men for what they promise to be.
JOHANN VON GOETHE The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish; the impressions remain ...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Maturity consists in no longer being taken in by oneself.
KAJETAN VON SCHLAGGENBERG The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the m...
JOHANN VON GOETHE The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally i...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
JOHANN VON GOETHE A clever man commits no minor blunders.
JOHANN VON GOETHE The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his fail...
JOHANN VON GOETHE The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
JOHANN VON GOETHE The right man is the one that seizes the moment.
JOHANN VON GOETHE No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a pr...
JOHANN VON GOETHE The unnatural, that too is natural.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always righ...
JOHANN VON GOETHE In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is ...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.
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