Berthold Auerbach Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
-
Peace is its own reward.
-
The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.
-
Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.
-
Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
-
I have never been to a museum in Hong Kong, or a movie or a play. I've never gone club-hopping. I've never taken the tram to Victoria Peak.
-
I took group lessons at a rink near my home. We first had to learn how to stand up on the ice wearing skates. Eventually we learned to move forward, but soon found out that it was not that easy to stop! So that was our next important lesson.
-
Can't even see without my vintage Versace frames. I don't go nowhere without them on. I can't even live without them. Every time I throw them on, I see all the haters, and I see where the money at.
-
Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.
-
If an alien race lands on the planet Earth tomorrow and asks me to prove I'm really here, what do I do? What do I give them? What do I tell them? What do I show them? I can't sing or dance. I can't paint. I've never built anything, and I've never contributed anything significant to the human race.
-
If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.
-
The one noticeable similarity with almost all serial killer victims is their short height and low weight.
-
One of the greatest fears of the Arab world is a direct conflict between Israel and the Islamic State.
-
In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the development of a new branch of knowledge.
-
Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.
-
What second love could she Olympias make out of her ruined first love? The second love that most women make out of their first love for husbands grows from a mutual and tacit sadness in both husband and wife that he is only in rare moments the man both would like him to be.
-
You ask, 'What about the innocent bystanders?' But we are in a time of revolution. If you are a bystander, you are not innocent.
-
There is a great Man living in this country - a composer. He has solved the problem how to preserve one's self and to learn. He responds to negligence by contempt. He is not forced to accept praise or blame. His name is Ives.
-
There was no escaping by means of any journey, however adventurous, one took one's problems and sorrows with one.
-
No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.
-
An army is to a chief what a sword is to a soldier. It is only worth anything in so far as it receives from him a certain impulsion (direction and vigour).
-
If I do continue to do fashion, I would want to radicalise it.
-
Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.
