Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes
The world belongs to those who possess it, and is scorned by those to whom it should belong.
Quotes to Explore
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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If large numbers of people believe they have no shot at a better life in the future, they will work less hard and generate fewer new ideas and businesses. The economy, as a whole, will be poorer.
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Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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If something is mine, then I want to keep it.
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If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God's goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.
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Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
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Some day, I'd like to be known as the queen of containerboards.
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There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matter of principle is not a very fashionable thing in our society.
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Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.
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People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.
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The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
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Everything goes in waves. Evolution goes in waves. The ocean goes in waves. Energy goes in waves. Sound travels in waves.
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Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie it will be, because the way movie folk think is different from the way writers think, and I distrust what isn't done my way. This is what I call a healthy paranoia.
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There are a lot of people I dislike in the world. I mean, a lot. I don't follow any of them on Twitter.
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We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.
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The whole world seemed to be quiet and calm and I wanted to be the world and feel like that.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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The world belongs to those who possess it, and is scorned by those to whom it should belong.
