Walther Rathenau Quotes

Three hundred men, all of whom know one another, direct the economic destiny of Europe and choose their successors from among themselves.

Walther Rathenau

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• Music is my release.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Music
  • Release

• My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Bad
  • Son
  • Boy

• I'm still having fun, and I'm doing something and I'm seeing the world! I wasn't massively ambitious, but I did always want to do the best I could do.

  

  Kate Moss
  • World
  • Fun
  • Best

• Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity of outside appearance. The geometrical line is something absolutely distinct from the messiness, the confusion, and the accidental details of existing things.

  

  T. E. Hulme
  • Men
  • Pleasure
  • Details

• I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • People
  • Human
  • Turn

• I appreciate when people enjoy my work, but I don't like being recognized in public.

  

  Gabriel Basso
  • People
  • Work
  • Enjoy

• When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• Being asked to support humane meat means being asked to support the suffering of animals in transport, to approve of treatment that causes them palpable fear, their bodies shaking and their eyes wide as saucers, as they are slung by their legs into crates that are slammed onto the back of a truck.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Fear
  • Support
  • Eyes

• If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Kids
  • Write
  • Down

• The important thing is to build up my cardiovascular system, so I have the stamina to do stunts. To me, stepping over the line, taking a chance and succeeding is the ultimate freedom, be it in rock and roll or when executing a really challenging routine.

  

  Wendy O. Williams
  • Up
  • Important
  • Freedom

• When I was a kid, I always had my hair in two plaits. But for dancing, I had to have it in a bun because I did ballet.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Always
  • Hair
  • Kid

• Fashion intersects a lot with art and film and music, and that was appealing to me. I read a bunch of fashion blogs and wanted to be part of the community.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Music
  • Art
  • Community

• I feel like I'm the luckiest actress in the world.

  

  Kate Flannery
  • World
  • Like
  • Feel

• I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • Believe
  • Live

• I'm a very independent woman.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Woman
  • Independent
  • Independent Woman

• For me, I was really lucky to go to a city like Chicago where the team was struggling at the time, and I was able to go in and play right away.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Time
  • Team
  • Me

• Every day, women move mountains. It is an insult to have an international women's day.

  

  Waris Dirie
  • Women
  • Day
  • Mountains

• An inspiring word for me is to think of myself as limitless.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Think
  • Me
  • Word

• Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it's just a daisy in a jelly glass.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Beautiful
  • Always
  • Glass

• It teaches us how to run our lives individually. How to run our families, how to run our churches. But it teaches us how to run all our public policy and everything in society. And that's the reason, as your congressman, I hold the Holy Bible as being the major directions to me of how I vote in Washington, D.C., and I'll continue to do that.

  

  Paul Broun
  • Society
  • Bible

• I'd much rather be in the world than in some ivory tower somewhere.

  

  Andrew Garfield
  • World

• In backbends, one touches the body physically, mentally, intellectually, consciously and spiritually everywhere.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Body
  • Backbends

• I love going to work out now. It gets out aggression and my trainer really shakes it up so I don't get bored.

  

  Adriana Lima
  • Up
  • Work
  • Bored

• Three hundred men, all of whom know one another, direct the economic destiny of Europe and choose their successors from among themselves.

  

  Walther Rathenau
  • World
  • Destiny
  • Economic