Carl von Clausewitz Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The whole Hollywood thing where people want to put me into this 'quirky-fashionista, daughter of' category makes me mad because it's promoting something that I don't believe in, and it's not who I am.
-
Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
-
I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
-
I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.
-
I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
-
When I arrived at Barcelona, I was following a dream, but I now realize sometimes it's better to be content with what you have rather than follow a dream which nearly kills you.
-
It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.
-
D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.
-
The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
-
It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
-
In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.
-
You've got to live in the moment. When it's over, it's over.
-
Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
-
Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.
-
Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.
-
Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
-
So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
-
Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
-
Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
-
If you have a difficult marriage, it's the hard times that make it better. If you have a relationship, it's the hard times that actually make it better, and that goes for life as well.
-
The fruit of wisdom is Christlikeness, peace, humility and love. And, the root of it is faith in Christ as the manifested wisdom of God
-
Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius, and he who carries that quality to absurdity has reached it; which is always a source of amusement to sensible people.
-
Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
