Ernst Mach Quotes

Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called attributes.

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• Does anything really matter? We all end up in the same place. All that's left is our Wikipedia entry.

  

  Lorde
  • Up
  • Place
  • Wikipedia

• I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Children
  • Boredom
  • I See

• President Bush got an early Christmas gift. This week, President Bush was chosen as 'Person of the Year' by Time magazine. Not only that, Martha Stewart was chosen as person of the year by Doing Time magazine.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Time
  • Christmas
  • Gift

• The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again, pronounce a text, Cry hem; and reading what they never wrote Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene!

  

  William Cowper
  • Reading
  • Scene
  • Cry

• When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing, we are fighting a righteous battle, the direct reward of which is that we are kept from much evil.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Evil
  • Fighting
  • Battle

• Tom Jones is like igloo-cool.

  

  will.i.am
  • Toms
  • Igloos

• In solitude there grows what anyone brings into it, the inner beast too. Therefore solitude is inadvisable to many.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Solitude
  • Beast
  • Inadvisable

• They do not need the sun. Who needs the sun when the eyes glow? Darkness. A woolen fog has wrapped the earth, has dropped a heavy curtain. From far away, from beyond the curtain, comes the sound of drops falling on stone. Far, far away - the autumn, people, tomorrow. ("The North")

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Earth
  • Sun
  • Darkness

• If you have a task to perform and are vitally interested in it, excited and challenged by it, and then you will exert maximum energy. But in the excitement, the pain of fatigue dissipates, and the exuberance of what you hope to achieve overcomes the weariness.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Energy
  • Task

• I hope people start to look at their lives as the most powerful, creative act they will ever offer this world.

  

  Tom Shadyac
  • People
  • World
  • Powerful

• Eliminate agencies that perform redundant functions... Get rid of the Department of Commerce, the Department of Education, the Department of Energy.

  

  Rick Perry
  • Energy
  • Education
  • Function

• I'm still in the Midwest, but I'm in Columbus, Ohio, so I'm three and a half hours away from everybody. That's one of the reasons we're not as active as we'd like to be - it's an expensive chore for me to go down there just to talk or something.

  

  David Pajo
  • Reason
  • Something
  • Active

• We cannot all be great, but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.

  

  Harry Emerson Fosdick
  • Great

• Democratic leaders, whose power is ultimately dependent on popular support, are held accountable for failing to improve the lives of their citizens. Therefore, they have a powerful incentive to keep their societies peaceful and prosperous.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Power
  • Support
  • Powerful

• One of the surest ways of forming good combinations in war would be to order movements only after obtaining perfect information of the enemy's proceedings. In fact, how can any man say what he should do himself; if he is ignorant what his adversary is about?

  

  Antoine-Henri Jomini
  • Enemy
  • Information
  • Combinations

• There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original.

  

  Joseph Haydn
  • Original
  • Forced
  • Confuse

• Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called attributes.

  

  Ernst Mach
  • Attributes
  • Combinations
  • Colours