Ernst Otto Fischer Quotes

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

Ernst Otto Fischer

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• I am very much a girly girl as well as being this tough, athletic fighter. I grew up a tomboy. I got my first four wheeler when I was eight. I got my first dirt bike shortly after. So, I have a lot of these manly qualities, I guess you would say. But, I also like to go get dressed up every weekend.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Girl
  • Bike
  • Fighter

• The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Opportunity
  • Space
  • Eyes

• I moved about 45 minutes from West Hollywood, and I live surrounded by nature and the wilderness, but I constantly find myself walking around, like in the commercial, saying, 'Can you hear me now?'

  

  Olga Fonda
  • Live
  • Nature
  • Myself

• I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Painting
  • Canvas
  • Ever

• In the 1960s, and stretching back to the 1930s, it was felt by many economists that easy money is a reliable way to increase employment.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Money
  • Easy
  • Economists

• I love action movies.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Love
  • Action
  • Movies

• A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Love
  • Comfort
  • Scholar

• Growing up, I wasn't the most vocal kid in the world. I feel like I learned through observation, and usually, when you're watching things, you're not speaking. That sort of metastasized in a way that I began to participate less and less in the world.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Up
  • World
  • You

• Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap - let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • American
  • Mother
  • Justice

• The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

  

  Carl Rogers
  • Life
  • Good
  • Destination

• I was going to France to do my masters and my Ph.D., but I didn't know how to say, 'bonjour.' You really feel like a baby, starting everything from scratch.

  

  Zeresenay Alemseged
  • Know
  • Baby
  • Starting

• I just missed out on qualifying for the Sydney Olympics in 2000.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Just
  • Missed
  • Sydney

• What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Will
  • Just
  • Meet

• Our modern religious horizon and our conception of the character of a religious leader and teacher are so different that it is not easy to understand men who saw the province of religion chiefly in the broad reaches of civic affairs and international relations.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Men
  • Different
  • Character

• What do you mean, you 'don't believe in homosexuality?' It's not like the Easter Bunny, your belief isn't necessary.

  

  Lea DeLaria
  • Believe
  • Easter

• There's no reason any company should be limited by its physical environment.

  

  Joe Gebbia
  • Environment

• I'm really lucky in that I can do lots of different things. It must be really hard to just be a poet or just be a novelist - a constant cycle of effort and exhaustion and recuperation.

  

  Mark Haddon
  • Different
  • Effort

• If I were mayor, I'd invite everyone to have free boat trips on the river and free balloon rides over the city. I'd let the elderly in residential homes wander free.

  

  Jane Birkin
  • Free
  • City
  • River

• I think it's crazy, crazy that book tours lose so much money. They shouldn't. Book tours should be part of what keeps independent bookstores vibrant and profitable.

  

  John Green
  • Money
  • Book
  • Crazy

• My soul is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches, its eyes wide open far-off things, and listens at the shores of the great silence.

  

  Antonio Machado
  • Great
  • Soul
  • Eyes

• Bitcoin has the potential to destroy credit cards and banks as we know it. Maybe that is a good thing or a bad thing, but I like the idea that if someone needs to remit payments, they can do it without being gouged.

  

  Garry Tan
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Credit

• When I was growing up, Green Day had just come out.

  

  Deryck Whibley Sum 41
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Green

• As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.

  

  Kajol
  • Work
  • You
  • Expectations

• To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

  

  Ernst Otto Fischer
  • Literature
  • Dreams
  • Prosperity