Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes
Wenn Du durchaus nur die Wahl hast, zwischen einer Unwahrheit und einer Grobheit, dann wähle die Grobheit. Wenn jedoch die Wahl getroffen werden muß zwischen einer Unwahrheit und einer Grausamkeit, dann wähle die Unwahrheit.
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I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.'
Nadia Comaneci
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I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.
Sally Ride
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I have one of these bodies. When I was younger, I could never put weight on, and now that I'm a little older, there's a natural sort of chubbiness coming. But honestly, if I work out for a week, it drops off in no time.
Idris Elba
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I've never had a problem finding a team, a league, or a pickup game. Actually, I'm not sure I want soccer to get bigger. We have so many teams in San Francisco that there aren't enough fields.
Rabih Alameddine
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I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
Barbra Streisand
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It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.
Felix Bloch
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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
Samuel Johnson
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I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.
Fiona Apple
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Believe me, it would be a long, long, cold day before I decide to warm up next to Rupert Murdoch.
Irwin Winkler
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To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina... means a lot to me.
Zoe Saldana
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And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet.
Jackson Browne
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I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.
Paddy Ashdown
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Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together.
Jack Nicklaus
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Certain writers look down their noses at plot, and I think I might have been one of them until I tried it.
Patrick deWitt
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And I think there's something about conservatives frankly - and the Left, when it comes to their channels of persuasion, are unpersuasive. They are, most of them are hate-filled, obscenity-clogged rants of anger and hatred.
Karl Rove
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There's nothing that can replace quality programs in a non-profit.
Adam Braun
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I certainly support civil unions.
Carly Fiorina
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When I was 18, I left Dublin and moved to Paris. I didn't speak French. I didn't know anyone. I felt like a fish out of water.
Caitriona Balfe
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From the day war conquered the skies, nothing could check its progress.
Ferdinand Buisson
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The truth was that for some months he had been going through that partitioning of the things of youth wherein it is decided whether or not to die for what one no longer believes.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.
Viktor Yushchenko
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Le véritable lieu de naissance est celui où l'on a porté pour la première fois un coup d'oeil intelligent sur soi-même: mes premières patries ont été des livres.
Marguerite Yourcenar
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Wenn Du durchaus nur die Wahl hast, zwischen einer Unwahrheit und einer Grobheit, dann wähle die Grobheit. Wenn jedoch die Wahl getroffen werden muß zwischen einer Unwahrheit und einer Grausamkeit, dann wähle die Unwahrheit.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach