Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes

Misanthropy is a suit of armor lined with thorns.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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• It delights me that I don't fit the stereotype of an actress.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Me
  • Actress
  • Stereotype

• The fact is that since you're a divine creation who originated in the world of Spirit, you have exactly the right amount of smarts to accomplish all that you need and want to do while you're here on earth. It's all perfect... and so are you!

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • World
  • Want
  • Earth

• I've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as you go.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Different
  • You
  • Learn

• While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.

  

  Randy Forbes
  • Wisdom
  • Never
  • Humor

• God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • God
  • Believe
  • Die

• The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Food
  • Water
  • Cooking

• I saw 'The Artist.' It's really beautiful and it's all done to the letter with all the silent film techniques. The costumes were amazing and the dog is so good.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Good
  • Done
  • Beautiful

• Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Want
  • Never
  • Hotel

• I really do miss playing basketball. I don't play a lot of pick-up games. But I do like using basketball as a form of cross training.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Up
  • Play
  • Training

• We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion.

  

  Farley Mowat
  • Good
  • God
  • Important

• I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Always
  • Kid
  • Ever

• I'm happy to be here. I'm happy to be anywhere. I'm not kidding.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Happy
  • Here
  • Kidding

• I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive.

  

  Barbara Cook
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Thought

• I grew up in the church.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Up
  • Church
  • Grew

• You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Feeling
  • You
  • Feel

• I don't need to be a frontman all the time, and in fact, the older I get, the less of an urge it is inside me to play that role. I've still got it inside me, and I do occasionally allow it out.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • Time
  • Me
  • Play

• Americans spend more money on Botox, face lifts and tummy tucks than on the age-old scourges of polio, small pox and malaria.

  

  Victor Davis Hanson
  • Money
  • Age
  • Small

• Americans deserve a better tomorrow, today.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Today
  • Better
  • Tomorrow

• Sporting culture is needed where marks are given to students for sports in schools, jobs are assured for sportsperson, and sponsors are willing to support them through rough times.

  

  Gagan Narang
  • Culture
  • Support
  • Sports

• Fascism was an explosion against intolerable conditions, against remediable wrongs which the old world failed to remedy. It was a movement to secure national renaissance by people who felt themselves threatened with decline into decadence and death and were determined to live, and live greatly.

  

  Oswald Mosley
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• The total quantity of all the forces capable of work in the whole universe remains eternal and unchanged throughout all their changes. All change in nature amounts to this, that force can change its form and locality, without its quantity being changed. The universe possesses, once for all, a store of force which is not altered by any change of phenomena, can neither be increased nor diminished, and which maintains any change which takes place on it.

  

  Hermann von Helmholtz
  • Universe
  • Force
  • Changes

• The Imperial Service could win a war without coffee, but would prefer not to have to.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • War
  • Winning
  • Coffee

• Misanthropy is a suit of armor lined with thorns.

  

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach