Baronin Von Quotes

I've noticed that men get unhappy about women talking about something other than men, or love, or babies. ~ Margarethe Von Trotta

Man ... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what to seek and what to avoid. For the rest, man is a confused creature; he knows not whence he comes or whither he goes, he knows little of the world, and above all, he knows little of himself. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It might have been the entrance to some holy place, so strange and solemn was the quiet; and looking from out of its shadows to the brightness shining at the upper end where the sun was flooding the bracken with happy morning radiance, I felt suddenly that my walk had ceased to be a common thing, and that I was going up into the temple of God to pray. ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim

The greatest danger to liberty today comes from the men who are most needed and most powerful in modern government, namely, the efficient expert administrators exclusively concerned with what they regard as the public good. ~ Friedrich August Von Hayek

For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

For even if we know very little that is certain about spirit or soul, the true nature of the body, of materiality, is totally unknown and incomprehensible to us. ~ Wilhelm Von Humboldt

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father. ~ Roger Von Oech

I believe that the time has arrived for medical investigation of the problems of manned rocket flight, for it will not be the engineering problems but rather the limits of the human frame that will make the final decision as to whether manned space flight will eventually become a reality. ~ Wernher Von Braun

Whoever aspiring, struggles on, for him there is salvation. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Now we're detectives? Maybe we should all have code names."
"Good idea," said Jace. "I shall be Baron Hotschaft Von Hugenstein."
Alec spit his water back into his glass. ~ Cassandra Clare

Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order. ~ Friedrich August Von Hayek

Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It is almost more important how a person takes his fate than what it is. And the best way is with gratitude while trying to improve it for the good of others and themselves. ~ Wilhelm Von Humboldt

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior. ~ Carl Von Clausewitz

I love beautiful women. I love to show their personality, their sexuality. There's a fashion side to my erotic pictures: I love beautiful shoes and jewellery. But the erotic work I do is too daring and provocative for a fashion magazine. It's more fun, and if you have the right girl who likes it, more exciting, too. It's fashion photography, but with fewer clothes. ~ Ellen Von Unwerth

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Every combat is the bloody and destructive measuring of the strength of forces, physical and moral; whoever at the close has the greatest amount of both left is the conqueror. ~ Carl Von Clausewitz

Simplicity and sexiness, that's what people want. At a price that's not outrageous. ~ Diane Von Furstenberg

Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty. Government is a guarantor of liberty and is compatible with liberty only if its range is adequately restricted to the preservation of economic freedom. Where there is no market economy, the best-intentioned provisions of constitutions and laws remain a dead letter. ~ Ludwig Von Mises

Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Everyone knows I married a prince, and then I married a billionaire. ~ Diane Von Furstenberg

Repression by brute force is always a confession of the inability to make use of the better weapons of the intellect - better because they alone give promise of final success. ~ Ludwig Von Mises

Besides the pleasure derived from acquired knowledge, there lurks in the mind of man, and tinged with a shade of sadness, an unsatisfactory longing for something beyond the present, a striving towards regions yet unknown and unopened. ~ Wilhelm Von Humboldt

But you cannot deny, that man and woman are mortal enemies, in your serene sunlit world as well as in our foggy one. In love there is union into a single being for a short time only, capable of only one thought, one sensation, one will, in order to be then further disunited. And you know this better than I; whichever of the two fails to subjugate will soon feel the feet of the other on his neck - ~ Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

Everyone carries a part of society on his shoulders; no one is relieved of his share of responsibility by others. And no one can find a safe way out for himself if society is sweeping toward destruction. Therefore, everyone, in his own interests, must thrust himself vigorously into the intellectual battle. None can stand aside with unconcern; the interest of everyone hangs on the result. Whether he chooses or not, every man is drawn into the great historical struggle, the decisive battle into which our epoch has plunged us. ~ Ludwig Von Mises

When everyone zigs, zag. Life is all about trying to get somewhere first. ~ Alexa Von Tobel

I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible. ~ Manfred Von Richthofen

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with law, as is the object of philosophical, philological, historical, moral, and social sciences to establish. ~ Hermann Von Helmholtz

We decline the claim to power by parties which want to own their followers body and soul, and which want to put themselves over and above the whole nation. ~ Franz Von Papen

So perfect and complete was my ignorance that it was impossible for me to know that I knew nothing. ~ Hans Jakob Christoffel Von Grimmelshausen

To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is to not have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the clue to everything. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

When we meet with better fare than was expected, the disappointment is overlooked even by the unscrupulous. When we meet with worse than was expected, philosophers alone know how to make it better. ~ Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

A vast dawning entirety lies before the soul, our senses lose themselves in it as do our eyes and oh! we long to make the oblation of all our being and to be filled utterly with the bliss of a single large and glorious feeling. - And oh! when we hurry after it, when There becomes Here, all is as it was and we stand in our poverty, in our narrowness, and the soul in us parches for the elusive freshening. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

American Christians have been woefully silent on important issues. I am an American citizens now, and I love this country, but I see symptoms in the United States that I saw in Austria in 1938 when the Nazi Germans were terrorizing Europe. ~ Maria Von Trapp

Mr. Bergman had a great imagination and saw the possibilities within every one of his actors, and he gave us great challenges. It was very inspiring. ~ Max Von Sydow

Hunger is the mother of impatience and anger. ~ Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

If you're short, don't wear extremely high heels. After a certain age, you shouldn't wear little girls' clothes. That's going against your nature. ~ Diane Von Furstenberg

The Hegelian babble about the real being the true is therefore the same kind of confusion as when people assume that the words and actions of a poet's dramatic characters are the poet's own. We must, however, hold fast to the belief that when God - so to speak - decides to write a play, he does not do it simply in order to pass the time, as the pagans thought. No, no: indeed, the utterly serious point here is that loving and being loved is God's passion. It is almost - infinite love! - as if he is bound to this passion, almost as if it were a weakness on his part; whereas in fact it is his strength, his almighty love: and in that respect his love is subject to no alteration of any kind. There ~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar

War ... is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror. ~ Ludwig Von Mises

If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Sexuality and anger are often written with the same note, but never on the same line, because they don't make music together. ~ Sibyl Von Der Schulenburg

Noble be man,
Helpful and good!
For that alone
Sets him apart
From every other creature
On earth. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The only person your anger hurts is you. Let it go. Accept it. Move on. ~ Kristin Von Kreisler

I understand that it takes patience, but there are also positive signs. H. U. von Balthasar, the theologian who probably has the greatest influence in the Catholic world for the moment, has handed down a very positive verdict on my book. Likewise, K. Lehmann, who is the theologian of the German Bishops' Conference. So I think that your thinking will gradually prevail, even if there is resistance and difficulties for the moment. ~ Scott Cowdell

I am thinking about something much more important than bombs. I am thinking about computers. ~ John Von Neumann

The [chief] characteristic of Hitler's leadership [was] his over-estimation of the power of the will. [To win the war] this will had only to be translated into faith down to the youngest private soldier. ~ Erich Von Manstein