Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes

Die jetzigen Menschen sind zum tadeln geboren. Vom ganzen Achilles sehen sie nur die Ferse.

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• Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • People
  • Good
  • Power

• First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Guy
  • Kind
  • First

• Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • May
  • Foresight
  • Undoubtedly

• I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't mind if people think, either. I think the brain is a very sexy organ.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • People
  • Mind
  • Feeling

• Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Perfect

• I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Parent

• To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina... means a lot to me.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Work
  • American
  • True

• I would not say that female cosmonauts are not welcomed in the Russian space program. I must say, however, that all spaceflight hardware, including spacesuits and spacecraft comfort assuring systems, were designed mostly by men and for men.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Men
  • Space
  • Comfort

• The lies of the empire and the treason of the quislings shall be defeated.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Lies
  • Defeated
  • Empire

• I certainly support civil unions.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Support
  • Certainly
  • Unions

• When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • Up
  • School
  • She

• When I started acting almost 50 years ago, it wasn't about fame. It was about acting.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Years
  • Acting
  • Fame

• Eating together is the most intimate form of kinship. By scripting a work where we share the same kind of food with fish, I'm scripting our interrelationship with them.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • Work
  • Together
  • Food

• I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Life
  • Prayer
  • Sin

• Sarah Corvus in 'Bionic Woman' was one of my favorite characters I've ever played, ever, for reasons that are very similar to Nikki in 'Sexy Evil Genius.' I felt that that show was taken away from me too soon, and I really wanted to dive back into that mind frame again.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Mind
  • Taken
  • Evil

• But working with Dre, I grew up with his music, so I'm still like more a fan.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Up
  • Music
  • Working

• I am a character actress. Well, let's say, I am a leading character actress who does interesting, odd parts.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Actress

• Sometimes you need other people to embody situations so that you can talk about things that for you are important. And I think that being able to hope for the future is what builds in us the strength to just get rid of things that, in the past, can hurt.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • People
  • Important
  • Hope

• An album is a thing you take time out and go work on.

  

  Courtney Barnett
  • Time
  • Work

• It's painful, man, for my daughters to say they're scared of me.

  

  Tony Dorsett
  • Scared
  • Daughters

• When I die, I want to be buried in a long long-sleeve black Ralph Lauren dress and brown chunky boots. I want my hair styled like his models, long hair that flows. I also want natural makeup with a light pink lip.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Long
  • Black
  • Light

• Death is, in some ways, unacceptable. It’s just an astonishing fact of our being here that we die; but I think worse than that is if we live long enough, we lose everyone we love in this world. I mean people die and disappear, and we’re left with this stark mystery: just the sheer not knowing of what happened to them.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • World
  • Long

• Ah, could the soul, like the body, have a mirror! It has,--a friend.

  

  William R. Alger
  • Soul
  • Friend
  • Body

• Die jetzigen Menschen sind zum tadeln geboren. Vom ganzen Achilles sehen sie nur die Ferse.

  

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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