Ludwig von Mises Quotes

The proof of a theory is in its reasoning, not in its sponsorship

Ludwig von Mises

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• I'm obsessed. I've always needed to know what's going on but now it's a must.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Know
  • Now
  • Going

• For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Book
  • Working
  • Process

• Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • History
  • Me
  • Matter

• One of the writers I most admire is Hilary Mantel because in the middle of her career, she just changed paths entirely and became just a totally different novelist.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Different
  • She
  • Career

• The challenge is sort of capturing the issues that Oregonians feel strongly about and moving forward on those.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Moving
  • Challenge
  • Moving Forward

• Love is the beauty of the soul.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Soul
  • Beauty
  • For Her

• I represent the Democratic party... I've never been nor do I ever plan to be a John McCain supporter. I support Barack Obama.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Support
  • Party
  • Plan

• Every film is a puzzle really, from an editorial point of view.

  

  Walter Murch
  • View
  • Point Of View
  • Puzzle

• Going from a child actor to an adult actor is not an easy thing, and I was sort of lost in a no man's land for a while, trying to figure out who I was as a person, and going from a young actor to an adult actor.

  

  C. Thomas Howell
  • Trying
  • Man
  • Lost

• I live in a swimsuit so I'm really comfortable with my body.

  

  Natalie Coughlin
  • Live
  • Body
  • Comfortable

• My family was Jehovah's Witnesses, which is a really tough religion. It kind of deterred me from religion for a long time. They still practice, but I don't. But I always remained spiritual, and had a belief that there is a God. I'm trying to find my way, you know?

  

  Ja Rule
  • Time
  • God
  • Long

• In school, I was playing old men and women, babies, Russian people, and all sorts of weird parts - a lot of comedy - and that's sort of like home to me.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• With directors, some have a kind of in-built ability to just know how to work with actors and get the best out of actors, and some don't have a clue about acting. I think it'd be a good idea if directors put themselves in front of the camera, or even went on a six-week drama course, just to know a little bit about what that feels like.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Good
  • Work
  • Best

• I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Life
  • Character
  • Myself

• Remember, my dear Evelina, nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things.

  

  Frances Burney
  • Remember
  • Beautiful

• Larry's 2nd Law of Language Redesign: Larry gets the colon.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Law

• The Hudson's Bay Company, before their misfortunes in the late war, had been much more fortunate than the Royal African Company.

  

  Adam Smith
  • War

• My father gave me an old Olympia portable when I was in fourth grade. Our ancestors came from Ireland. Our family stories of immigration helped me understand more about my characters in 'The Lemon Orchard.'

  

  Luanne Rice
  • Family
  • Father
  • Immigration

• Often for me, if I hear a song I know, it clicks for me and I hear it in a different way and I think, "I could sing that song. I've got something to say about that song. Wanting to connect with an audience and wanting them to rethink songs; it is actually important to do songs they're familiar with. Also, I love those songs. In a way, I think I've changed people's perceptions of what a cabaret show like this could be.

  

  Alan Cumming
  • People
  • Different
  • Important

• If all you're doing is making money, you have a luxurious but empty life.

  

  Amanda Donohoe
  • Life
  • Money

• It's a big tree, but it has ramified and exfoliated, ... would be an enormous disruption.

  

  Charles Fried
  • Tree
  • Disruption
  • Exfoliated

• My peak? Would I even have one? I hardly had had anything you could call a life. A few ripples, some rises and falls. But that's it. Almost nothing. Nothing born of nothing. I'd loved and been loved, but I had nothing to show. It was a singularly plain, featureless landscape. I felt like I was in a video game. A surrogate Pacman, crunching blindly through a labyrinth of dotted lines. The only certainty was my death.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Death
  • Loved
  • Video Games

• The proof of a theory is in its reasoning, not in its sponsorship

  

  Ludwig von Mises