Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes

Geduld mit der Streitsucht der Einfältigen! Es ist nicht leicht zu begreifen, dass man nicht begreift.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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• Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • People
  • God
  • Bad

• I have this whole new audience now.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Audience
  • New
  • Now

• Nobody does remakes for the sake of it. As for me, I have not hard and fast rules with respect to remakes.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Respect
  • Me
  • Rules

• A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • King
  • Voice
  • Popular

• Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Great
  • Resources
  • Hubris

• Once in a while, I write in Malay and work on something fun that's more for the local Malaysian market, and when that happens, it's always something really special; it speaks volumes that I'm doing it for my fans who have been there for me since day one.

  

  Yuna
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Day

• I will not be able to rule without you. You and I have the same responsibility. I do, as Bolivia's number one servant. Servant - one who serves the nation, not one whom the nation serves.

  

  Carlos Mesa
  • Responsibility
  • Same
  • Nation

• I have no direct knowledge of this, but I suspect that Apple will launch a living room product that redefines people's expectations really strongly, and the notion of a separate console platform will disappear concurrent with Apple's announcement.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Apple

• For me, an aerial picture is no different than a close-up portrait. It's a question of framing and angle. Helicopters are great for that. But I've also used planes. Of course, I always have a harness.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Up
  • Great
  • Different

• With Pakistan being in my blood, I would certainly look at opportunities to travel there.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Travel
  • Blood
  • Opportunities

• Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment.

  

  Owen Feltham
  • Humanity
  • Moment
  • Ship

• You know I think that going into therapy is a very positive thing, and talking about it is really helpful, because the more you talk the more your fears fade, because you get it out.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Think
  • Know
  • Positive

• Everything can change, but Indian movies will not change much because we're so used to the dance and songs and everything. Even Americans are getting very attracted to all this.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Change
  • Dance
  • Movies

• There are some people, who place enormous value on their home and feel that it defines them, that a stain on the carpet is a personal defilement. There are others, and I think I am one of them, who are entirely indifferent to where they live.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • People
  • Live
  • Home

• I love that my friends are all freaks.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Love
  • Friends
  • Freaks

• The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.

  

  Audre Lorde
  • House

• We are a kind of posterity in respect to them.

  

  Benjamin Franklin
  • Respect

• I still try to treat football as a game even if there are now other considerations at stake, especially economic ones.

  

  Dimitri Payet
  • Game
  • Football

• I wore some stupid brocade dress to my prom.

  

  Leandra Medine
  • Stupid
  • Prom

• I believe that it is an honor beyond measure that Bar Ilan University and the Rennert Center would deem it proper to cast me among the ranks of our greatest defenders and champions. I know I do not deserve this distinction. I certainly do not believe that I have earned it. But I do know that since childhood I have strived to emulate the image of the watchman-or watchwoman-on the walls of Zion. And I pledge that I will continue throughout my life to strive to earn the distinction you bestow on me tonight.

  

  Caroline Glick
  • Life
  • Strive
  • Distinction

• Somehow, when you think about yourself in old age, you think you're going to be this completely different person that you don't even recognize - because you can't imagine it, you know?

  

  Emmylou Harris
  • Different
  • Age

• What man needs is not just the persistent posing of ultimate questions, but the sense of what is feasible, what is possible, what is correct, here and now. The philosopher, of all people, must, I think, be aware of the tension between what he claims to achieve and the reality in which he finds himself.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • People
  • Reality

• I'm fat! There's nothing else to call it.

  

  Kirstie Alley

• Geduld mit der Streitsucht der Einfältigen! Es ist nicht leicht zu begreifen, dass man nicht begreift.

  

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach