Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes

In der Jugend lernt, im Alter versteht man.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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• In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.

  

  Becky G
  • Inspiration
  • motivation
  • Industry

• Whenever someone says to me, 'Are you for or against Common Core,' the first question I ask is, 'What do you think Common Core is?' You will get a different answer from every single person. You will literally get a different answer.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Different
  • Think
  • Me

• I'm very independent, creatively, always trying to push myself - and I think that comes from my mother.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Trying
  • Mother
  • Myself

• The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Will
  • Laws
  • Thieves

• There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Life
  • Good
  • Actor

• I still feel that in India we look upon sports as a recreational activity - which it is - but people have to understand that there is a career in sports. It's not just necessary to be a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer, as most of us Indians appear to think that our children should grow up to be.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • People
  • Up
  • Children

• My parents had no money, but they had strong values that I've carried throughout my life - things like not going into debt, never borrowing money, never leveraging, paying your bills on time, keeping your agreements, selling customers the right things, treating employees right, and growing things.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Life
  • Time
  • Money

• Nothing is an obstacle unless you say it is.

  

  Wally Amos
  • You
  • Nothing
  • Obstacle

• Many states favor joint custody.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Many
  • Favor
  • Custody

• History can never be covered up.

  

  Zhu Rongji
  • Up
  • History
  • Never

• My mother has a tremendous amount of pride and self-respect. She won't take assistance from anybody.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • She
  • Mother
  • Respect

• It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Happy
  • Lost
  • Youth

• Think about it: if the world could see how much adoption means from a cat's point of view, shelters would be empty.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • World
  • Cat
  • View

• Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges.

  

  Tacitus

• Keeping secrets was the beginning of freedom.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Freedom
  • Beginning

• Nature is more subtle, more deeply intertwined and more strangely integrated than any of our pictures of her - than any of our errors. It is not merely that our pictures are not full enough; each of our pictures in the end turns out to be so basically mistaken that the marvel is that it worked at all.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Nature

• Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.

  

  Colin Powell
  • People

• It is among the evils, and perhaps not the smallest, of democratical governments, that the people must feel before they will see. When this happens they are roused to action. Hence it is that those kinds of government are so slow.

  

  George Washington
  • People
  • Action
  • Kind

• I am not sure that you, the younger generations, will like to go to war that we went through. So, we learn as the mistakes are being committed.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • War
  • Mistakes
  • Generations

• [A] re-elected McConnell, with a Republican majority, would, he says, emulate his model of majority leadership - the 16 years under a Democrat, Montana'€™s Mike Mansfield. He, like McConnell, had a low emotional metabolism but a subtle sense of the Senate's singular role in the nation's constitutional equilibrium.

  

  George Will
  • Emotional
  • Republican
  • Notable

• Recently I was tenderly hugging one of our precious little five-year-old granddaughters and said to her, "I love you, sweetheart." She responded rather blandly: "I know." I asked, "How do you know that I love you?" Because! You're my grandfather!

  

  Russell M. Nelson
  • Years
  • Said
  • Littles

• In der Jugend lernt, im Alter versteht man.

  

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach