Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes

Believe flatterers and you’re lost; believe your enemies-and you despair.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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• Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

  

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• For decades, NRDC has created and supported policies that will ultimately end our reliance on fossil fuels.

  

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• I tend to wear all black. I like feeling sexy, feminine, effortless, and real.

  

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• Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.

  

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• Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.

  

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• I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.

  

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• I think I was more or less, convinced of that by just the press, the US press. By people who were pressuring you, saying that you gotta beat the Russian's, if you don't win anything else, win the Russian meet and so forth.

  

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• AppStudio is a native app builder that allows you to build the app and automatically deploy it on Android, iPhone, and Windows. It lets you design it once and then implement it anywhere.

  

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• I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.

  

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• I do realize that God has given me so many blessings in my life. I mean, not only with football, but with the family that He's blessed me with and the opportunity He's given me to grow up in a home that embraces God.

  

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• I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.

  

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• A lie to me is a dream that might come true.

  

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• I never trusted good-looking boys.

  

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• I cook everything from Italian to Cajun food. I have now mastered the roux for gumbo. I love cooking.

  

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• The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.

  

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• This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain was possible.

  

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• Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.

  

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• To play a match for the World Championship is the cherished dream of every chess player.

  

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• I always order soup, dessert, and a sandwich or whatever main course. But then the idea is you have to eat such a small portion of it and bring the rest home.

  

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• Our decade of change has unleashed the ingenuity, creativity, and character of the most extraordinary people in the world - the people of this state, who come from every corner of the globe.

  

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• Bookstores should be located not only on campuses or on main drags, but at the assembly plant's gates, also.

  

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• It takes a certain type of man to become a boxer, to fight for a living. To be able to have the confidence to hit another man, to control your fears. You must overcome the psychical aspect and believe in the art, the discipline of the sport. You need to study. You need to be smart.

  

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• Believe flatterers and you’re lost; believe your enemies-and you despair.

  

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
  • Believe
  • Lost