Eduard Suess Quotes

We are prone to forget that the planet may be measured by man, but not according to man.

Eduard Suess

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• I kept writing all these ballads; they're me speaking about life. But how am I gonna do the live show I wanna do if I don't have something I can dance to?

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Live

• Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.

  

  D. W. Griffith
  • Life
  • World
  • Remember

• Modes are infinite, and laws are infinite.

  

  Mahavira
  • Laws
  • Infinite
  • Modes

• Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Child

• There is definitely a need for increasing capacity in higher education; a large part of this is being met in the technical education segment by the private sector and in the non-technical by the state sector. In the public sector, we will do whatever we can afford.

  

  Pallam Raju
  • Education
  • Need
  • Will

• Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus.

  

  Lactantius
  • Free
  • Guilty
  • Fierce

• We must set up large refugee camps outside the E.U. with armed security and financial support provided by the Union.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Up
  • Support
  • Financial

• Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Simple
  • Thoughts
  • Eye

• I think it's really important to remind, reinforce people that their lives have value, you know? That their lives have worth.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • People
  • Important
  • Value

• I can never wink at the audience.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Never
  • Audience
  • I Can

• Short boots are cool, in my humble opinion. They say, 'Hey! Winter is over, but summer hasn't yet arrived - so enjoy this halfway point!'

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Cool
  • Opinion
  • Summer

• Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Future
  • Reality
  • inspirational

• Trump brings power to those who hate their lack of it, and his message is tonic to communities that have felt nothing but decline for decades.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Power
  • Hate
  • Trump

• It's so ironic - when you finally achieve recognition, you hide behind dark glasses.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Dark
  • Recognition
  • Ironic

• I like those stories that capture the brutality of life, but there's still some kind of melancholy romance.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Life
  • Kind
  • Capture

• Yeah, I think that a play is a huge commitment, and I think that what it requires of you is a lot, so it really makes you dig in and find things, and it just makes you sharp, 'cause it's live. Really, to me, it separates the men from the boys. I always say it's like the frontlines of acting, when you're on stage.

  

  Yul Vazquez
  • Men
  • Live
  • Commitment

• Making men live in three worlds at once - past, present and future has been the chief harm organized religion has done.

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • Men
  • Live
  • Done

• Who could believe in prophecies of Daniel or of Miller that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds?

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • World
  • Believe
  • Faith

• Every man is, no doubt, by nature, first and principally recommended to his own care; and as he is fitter to take care of himself than of any other person, it is fit and right that it should be so.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Nature
  • Doubt

• The battle is long, but that's football, sport.

  

  Claudio Ranieri
  • Long
  • Football

• Most people consider life a battle, but it is not a battle, it is a game.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • People
  • Life
  • Game

• Things that came before, people and things and experiences – that does mean something to me. It doesn't mean I don't embrace the new, but I don't forget the past, either.

  

  Vera Wang
  • People
  • Past
  • Things

• A critical feature of the EU(European Union) in general and EMU in particular is that there is no legitimate way for a member to withdraw... The American experience with the secession of the South may contain some lessons about the danger of a treaty or constitution that has no exits.

  

  Martin Feldstein
  • May
  • Experience
  • American

• We are prone to forget that the planet may be measured by man, but not according to man.

  

  Eduard Suess
  • May
  • Forget
  • Planets