Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes

Theorie und Praxis sind Eins wie Seele und Leib, und wie Seele und Leib liegen sie großenteils mit einander in Streit.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • House
  • Crime
  • White

• The Temptations still stand today, not in spite of those who left us, but because of them.

  

  Otis Williams The Temptations
  • Today
  • Stand
  • Left

• I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Writing
  • Remember
  • Songs

• Governments getting involved in sports activities would ultimately damage sports.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Sports
  • Involved
  • Activities

• To have a sense of style, it shows you know yourself. People like that.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Style
  • Yourself

• I envy the sensibility in Europe, appreciating beauty in women as they age. I'm going to go that way. I might dye my gray hair for a bit, but beyond that the buck stops. I'm not having any work done.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Work
  • Women
  • Done

• My feminism, as intended by me, extends to empowering women to make legal choices, not to judge the legal choices they make. My fight is for rights.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Women
  • Choices
  • Judge

• Every moment there is creation, every moment destruction. There is no absolute creation, no absolute destruction. Both are movement, and that is eternal.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Moment
  • Creation
  • Movement

• If I were to do a movie about Apollo 13, I'd be at NASA studying what it took to go into space. It's part of your job to go deep, to interview the right people.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • People
  • Job
  • Movie

• Like everyone else, I want to go on dancing forever, but I know the day is going to come when I will have to be doing something else.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Want
  • Day
  • Forever

• I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather than a hat.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Hat

• I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the end of the day, people are more important than paintings.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• Films are big hits when they touch a lot of people. Things are not funny in a vacuum, they're funny because we respond to some personal dislocation, some embarrassment, some humiliation, some pain we've suffered, or some desire we have.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • Funny
  • Desire

• I don't guess anybody would think much of what Joe did nowadays, including myself. But he was supposed to be a leader, so he had to live by the rules. It was the hardest thing I ever had to do, and it was to the greatest athlete I ever coached.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Live
  • Athlete

• Much learning shows how little mortals know;Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy.

  

  Edward Young
  • Learning

• Constantly and, if it be possible, on the occasion of every impression on the soul, apply to it the principles of Physic, of Ethic, and of Dialectic.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Soul

• Electric eels I might add do it, Though it shocks 'em I know...

  

  Cole Porter

• I have found the most beautiful side of the flowers in the fallen flowers.

  

  Antonio Porchia
  • Beautiful

• The tension between public and private science is powerful.

  

  Wil S. Hylton
  • Powerful
  • Public
  • Tension

• Truth lives in the spaces between words. It defies translation.

  

  Ashok K. Banker
  • Truth
  • Words
  • Lives

• For after the rain when with never a stain The pavilion of Heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams Build up the blue dome of air, I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Up
  • Heaven
  • Air

• What else could he possibly have done? What choices did he ever have?

  

  Tabitha Suzuma
  • Done
  • Choices

• Theorie und Praxis sind Eins wie Seele und Leib, und wie Seele und Leib liegen sie großenteils mit einander in Streit.

  

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach