Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.
-
I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a 'mature' record means.
-
It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
-
The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.
-
Anytime I get to help the firefighters, I will. I'm real lucky to be in a position to help.
-
I think in life, if you continue to challenge yourself, you can pride yourself in what you continuously accomplish.
-
People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'
-
When a great artist gets my attention, I pursue it. If I don't, someone else will, you know what I'm saying?
-
I wasn't a comic book aficionado at all when I was a kid, but my cousin Weed was. Every time we went to visit him on the farm, he had two really fun things: comedy albums and comic books.
-
This is my homeland no one can kick me out.
-
Our house has a library - it seemed better use of the space than as a dining room! - and I try to spend as much time in there as possible. There's nothing better while reading or writing than to be surrounded by books.
-
To disclose too much of one's inventions and achievements is one and the same thing as to give up the fruit of one's ingenuity.
-
I'm more of a thriller-horror fan - things that could really happen. I don't like scary movies, the 'Saw' movies scare the crap out of me - I think I've seen two of them and I wanted to go crawl in a hole.
-
You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
-
I would be hard-pressed to look back at anything that I have done in my career and not say, 'I would have done that a little different' because hindsight is 20/20.
-
I love sports - if I'm not acting, I'm probably doing sports.
-
I am actually in poor health due to chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome, and my ability to work is greatly diminished right now, so I have to get better before I can start another big project.
-
If you don't love what you are doing, it could be misery.
-
All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.
-
I never realized how many holidays encroached on the collegiate training schedule. When I was training for the Olympics, only one holiday interested me, the Day After the Games.
-
I love preseason games. They are fun to me because you get to go out there with guys that are on the NFL field for the first time and playing against guys who are going to be on the field for the first time.
-
Having my first number one single and being able to travel to places I've never been before has been amazing. The tour was also fantastic. There are so many things which I've experienced this year which I never even dreamed of.
-
Der am unrechten Orte vertraute, wird dafür am unrechten Orte mißtrauen.
