Carl von Clausewitz Quotes

Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.

Carl von Clausewitz

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• I hated school. I travelled so much in my early years that I didn't understand the process. I felt suffocated - not like I was some grandiose artist; I just felt like an alien.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • School
  • Artist
  • Process

• I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Good
  • Family
  • Happy

• The Tea Party people say they're angry about socialism, but maybe they're really angry about capitalism. If there's a sense of being looked down upon, it's that sense of failure that's built into a system that assures everyone they can make it to the top, but then reserves the top for only a tiny fraction of the strivers.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Party
  • Failure

• Your belief system tends to be a function of how you were raised. Being raised in the Midwest and in a relatively conservative household, my views were shaped by my upbringing, by my Christian faith.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • Faith
  • Christian
  • Belief

• To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Love
  • Mother
  • Professional

• Obama's presence opened a new field for writers, and what began as curiosity about the man himself eventually expanded into curiosity about the community he had so consciously made his home and all the old, fitfully slumbering questions he'd awakened about American identity.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Home
  • American
  • Community

• Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is the catholic church.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • People
  • Church
  • Jesus

• Most people don't know how to tell stories.

  

  Ted Rall
  • People
  • Know
  • Most

• When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Woman
  • Feet
  • Maturity

• A great ratatouille is one in which the vegetables interact with each other but are still discernible from each other. The trick is to cook them just right: not over, not under.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Great
  • Right
  • Vegetables

• Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Want
  • Become
  • Offer

• My next-door neighbor's two dogs have created more shovel-ready jobs than this current administration.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Door
  • Two
  • Neighbor

• What's beautiful is all that counts, pal. That's all that counts.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Beautiful
  • Counts
  • Pal

• I have a record of wanting to make sure that campaigns are open and financing is fair, but it can't just be one sided.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Open
  • Fair
  • Wanting

• Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Man
  • Reason
  • Racism

• People talk about retiring. I never said that r-word. People though I went away after the Olympic Games. I took time off to do something I've always wanted to be - a mother.

  Gail Devers
  • People
  • Time
  • Mother

• Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • God
  • Man
  • Free

• For yesterday and for all tomorrows, we dance the best we know.

  

  Kate Seredy
  • Know
  • Best
  • Dance

• This is a people's war, and to win it, the people should know as much about it as they can.

  

  Elmer Davis
  • People
  • War

• I've always been inspired by Patti LuPone.

  

  Alice Ripley
  • Inspired

• I always do get a little bit paranoid when I get a lot of attention. But I get used to it.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Attention
  • Littles
  • Used

• I was kind of a slap hitter, trying to get base hits, hit line drives, stay below a certain trajectory with my ball.

  

  Ben Zobrist
  • Trying

• Any other town you go to there's this little devil and a little angel on your shoulder. A little good advice, a little bad advice.You go to Las Vegas, there's like a devil and a devil and they're just battling it out the whole time. It's like, "Smoke some crack!" "Get a hooker!" And then I go, "YEA! Yea, this is a good town. Smoke some crack and get a hooker! Alright!"

  

  Bill Burr
  • Funny
  • Advice
  • Devil

• Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz