Carl Schmitt Quotes

The exception is more interesting than the rule. The rule proves nothing; the exception proves everything. In the exception the power of real life breaks through the crust of a mechanism that has become torpid by repetition.

Carl Schmitt

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• Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • High
  • Muse
  • Conqueror

• My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • School
  • She
  • Mother

• Whenever you show up on a set where you haven't been from the beginning - at least myself - I'm kind of quiet. I just watch the politics and how everything unfolds.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Beginning

• All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Stop

• There's no safe Republican district. You can run, but you cannot hide.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • You
  • Run
  • Safe

• I'm gonna make my records, whether I release them as Bleachers or something else.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Something
  • Records
  • Release

• One of the saddest things I've seen in Amazonian cultures is people who were self-sufficient and happy that now think of themselves as poor and become dissatisfied with their lives. What worries me is outsiders trying to impose their values and materialism on the Piraha.

  

  Daniel Everett
  • People
  • Trying
  • Happy

• If we work so hard and put all the money in the hospital to buy medicine - it will be a disaster. Why we should work? So without a healthy environment of this Earth, no matter how much money you make, no matter how wonderful you are, you have a bad disaster.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Work
  • Money
  • Why

• There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Life
  • Black
  • Black-and-white

• It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • America
  • Myself
  • Doing

• If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Money
  • Freedom
  • Values

• Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Great
  • Men

• I've always - I grew up on the old-style traditional type of golf course, tree lined and all small greens, big undulations. And Oakmont just fit my eye.

  

  Paula Creamer
  • Up
  • Small
  • Style

• We are a diverse country, but we are one country. And we are at our best when we come together as Americans, not despite our differences, but in celebration of them.

  

  Jared Polis
  • Country
  • Together
  • Celebration

• Life is too short for a long story.

  

  Mary Wortley Montagu
  • Life
  • Long

• My biggest challenge in making 'The Devil Wears Prada' was simply to maintain a tone of sophistication and reality. It's about the fashion world, or it's set in the fashion world, and that's a world that's easy to mock. It's easy to satirise people trying to lose weight and choosing between fancy clothes.

  

  David Frankel
  • People
  • World
  • Trying

• I think the beauty of Catholicism is its consistency through both successes and difficulties. I've counted on my faith to give me strength through both training and competition - but also in school, with my family and everyday life.

  

  Katie Ledecky
  • Life
  • School
  • Family

• The only sound approach to collective bargaining is to work out an agreement that clarifies the rights and responsibilities of the parties, establishes principles and operates to the advantage of all concerned.

  

  Charles E. Wilson
  • Work

• Surfboards were everywhere. When I got my first new board, I was probably in kindergarten.

  

  Brandon Cruz

• We, as citizens or members of people's organisations...can preserve and nourish basic principles needed for long-term efforts aimed at transforming a totalitarian and war-torn society into a democratic one.

  

  Katarina Kruhonja
  • Term
  • Citizens
  • Members

• In the French culture, they talk politics. I didn't find it was part of our culture to have political arguments at the table. My husband's family will get into major politics, and it's not an aggressive thing. It's so interesting and you learn so much, whether it's Right or Left, and that to me has been really great.

  

  Kim Raver
  • Great
  • Family
  • Political

• I still find new things every night, which is the beauty and fun of live theater. It's a living, breathing art form.

  

  Brandon Uranowitz
  • Live
  • Art
  • Fun

• Even in making objects, as soon as you start to get the feeling that some form of craft is coming into place, you realize that everything is wrong. Because craft is really just a fetish. It is wasted energy. It's about the object, some space which has nothing to do with the human.

  

  Jeff Koons
  • Feeling
  • Energy
  • Space

• The exception is more interesting than the rule. The rule proves nothing; the exception proves everything. In the exception the power of real life breaks through the crust of a mechanism that has become torpid by repetition.

  

  Carl Schmitt
  • Interesting
  • Rule
  • Exception