Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes

Die glücklichen Pessimisten! Welche Freude empfinden sie, so oft sie bewiesen haben, daß es keine Freude gibt.

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• My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete.

  

  T-Pain
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Change

• We have to stop rewarding bad behavior.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Bad
  • Stop
  • Behavior

• What you need to do is get that tape measure out, and start measuring that gut. Then you start working out and you start eating properly till that gut gets down close to it was when you were in your 20's. Then you'll find out what your weight should be.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Start
  • Down
  • Eating

• I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Trying
  • Write
  • Books

• I think of myself as a producer who tries to bring the best out of everyone, whether that be an artist, songwriter or a publicist.

  

  L.A. Reid
  • Myself
  • Best
  • Artist

• Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • People
  • Power
  • America

• Ignorance and prejudice make for bad advisers.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Bad
  • Ignorance
  • Prejudice

• From a spectator point of view, Test cricket is not important; people hardly watch Test cricket. But as a player, Tests are the real thing. You have to concentrate for five days. It's a lot of time, and not easy to do it day in and day out. If people have played 70-100 Tests, it's a lot of cricket, a lot of concentration and dedication.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• I learned not to depend on other people. I needed support, but it's you who has to go out and deliver.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • People
  • You
  • Support

• What's so special about this team is that we all have the same mentality, this sort of, 'We've been knocked down, let's get back up' mentality.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Up
  • Team
  • Same

• Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Country
  • Trying
  • Money

• I didn't get a phone call from Bill Clinton before I jumped in the race ... maybe it's because I hadn't given money to the foundation or donated to his wife's senate race.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Money
  • Wife
  • Foundation

• A woman in show business isn't honest with herself... so how can she be honest with another woman? We are, all of us, acting every minute of the day and night.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • She
  • Business
  • Night

• I was at a restaurant in Glasgow, and I was walking down the stairs. A woman passed me and said, 'Oh my God, what are you doing here?' I didn't know who she was, and I was like, 'Sorry?' She goes, 'Oh no, sorry, I follow you on Twitter. I just didn't expect to see you here.'

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • God
  • She
  • Woman

• I'm very happy with this new record. It's dealing with different aspects of love-it's me making a statement about people doing something with their lives. It is about caring for others.

  

  Barry White
  • People
  • Different
  • Happy

• In almost every photograph I have ever made, there is something I would do to complete it. I take that to be the spirit hole or the deliberate mistake that's in a Navajo rug to not be godlike, but to be human.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Mistake
  • Human
  • Almost

• Every film is hard to fund.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Film
  • Hard
  • Fund

• For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Environment
  • Player
  • Consequences

• Can anyone be so foolish as to believe that there are men whose feet are higher than their heads, or places where things may be hanging downwards, trees growing backwards, or rain falling upwards? Where is the marvel of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon if we are to allow of a hanging world at the Antipodes?

  

  Lactantius
  • World
  • Believe
  • Men

• Mr. LaLanne said he performed his exercises until he experienced 'muscle fatigue,' lifting weights until it was impossible for him to continue. It produced results and, as he put it, 'the ego in me' made the effort worthwhile.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Effort
  • Ego
  • Lifting

• God help those who do not help themselves.

  

  Wilson Mizner
  • Helping

• When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Country
  • Heart
  • Words

• In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that.

  

  Alvin Dark
  • Live
  • Remember
  • Game

• Die glücklichen Pessimisten! Welche Freude empfinden sie, so oft sie bewiesen haben, daß es keine Freude gibt.

  

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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