Caspar Quotes

You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company. ~ Caspar David Friedrich

The bone was sent to Dr. Caspar Wistar, the nation's leading anatomist, who described it at a meeting of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia that autumn. ~ Bill Bryson

He alone is an acute observer, who can observe minutely without being observed. ~ Johann Caspar Lavater

When a scene is shrouded in mist, it seems greater, nobler, and heightens the viewers' imaginative powers, increasing expectation -
like a veiled girl. Generally the eye and the imagination are more readily drawn by nebulous distance than by what is perfectly plain for all to see ~ Caspar David Friedrich

I think women are too valuable to be in combat. ~ Caspar Weinberger

I'd ask my parents to leave the door open just a little bit so I wouldn't be stuck in the prison of my bedroom and mind, the imaginary horrors barring me from entering dreamland. ~ Caspar Vega

I'm angry at this whole damn society. I despise this culture filled with mass produced pornography. I'm proud of myself for not engaging myself with that grotesque product. I'm disgusted at the idea that it's a product to begin with. ~ Caspar Vega

Sanctions and negotiations can be very ineffective, and indeed foolish, unless the people you are talking with and negotiating with and trying to reach agreements with are people who can be trusted to keep their word. ~ Caspar Weinberger

It was humanoid in form but it was certainly not a person. Its big upside-down teardrop shaped head was covered in blood yet I could still see it pulsating as if there was a big heart stuck inside its forehead, next to the brain, aching to pop out. ~ Caspar Vega

Never underestimate the fury of an angry mother, Caspar. They're the most vicious creatures in the world. ~ Elizabeth Hunter

Just as the pious man prays without speaking a word and the Almighty hearkens unto him, so the artist with true feelings paints and the sensitive man understands and recognizes it. ~ Caspar David Friedrich

I find the Romantic period extraordinarily interesting. My landscapes have connections with Romanticism: at times I feel a real desire for, an attraction to, this period, and some of my pictures are a homage to Caspar David Friedrich. ~ Gerhard Richter

We must recognize that personal freedoms diminish as the welfare state grows. The price of more and more public programs is less and less private freedom. ~ Caspar Weinberger

I am not so weak as to submit to the demands of the age when they go against my convictions. I spin a cocoon around myself; let others do the same. I shall leave it to time to show what will come of it: a brilliant butterfly or maggot. ~ Caspar David Friedrich

He who wishes to explain Generation must take for his theme the organic body and its constituent parts, and philosophize about them; he must show how these parts originated, and how they came to be in that relation in which they stand to each other. But he who learns to know a thing not only from its phenomena, but also its reasons and causes; and who, therefore, not by the phenomena merely, but by these also, is compelled to say: 'The thing must be so, and it cannot be otherwise; it is necessarily of such a character; it must have such qualities; it is impossible for it to possess others' - understands the thing not only historically but truly philosophically, and he has a philosophic knowledge of it. Our own Theory of Generation is to be such a philosphic comprehension of an organic body, a very different one from one merely historical. (1764) ~ Caspar Friedrich Wolff

Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within. ~ Caspar David Friedrich

The feelings of another person should never be imposed upon us as a law. ~ Caspar David Friedrich

I have had a long unabashed love affair with dogs that stretches back to early childhood. ~ Caspar Weinberger

Ah," Caspar exclaimed when he walked into the kitchen. "The grey is a good choice. Makes you look much less demon-of-the-night."
"Please, Caspar," he implored. "A date with a live woman. Soon. ~ Elizabeth Hunter

Whatever happens, whatever her final words are to me, I won't turn into one of those pricks who badmouth their exes out of boredom and bitterness. I'll cherish the time we had together. That's what's up. You know damn well it was a great time, stop the faking. ~ Caspar Vega

If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him. ~ Caspar David Friedrich

I interjected saying one would generally have to be human to have human rights. ~ Caspar Vega

A painting which does not take its inspiration from the heart is nothing more than futile juggling. ~ Caspar David Friedrich

It took the Gulf War to demonstrate that America did want more than one friend in the Mideast, and also was willing to take and make major risks to prevent a small Muslim country, Kuwait, from being overrun and in effect stolen by Iraq. ~ Caspar Weinberger

Mike [Mann], can you delete an e-mails you may have had with Keith [Trenberth] re AR4? Keith will do likewise ... Can you also e-mail Gene and get him to do the same? I don't have his e-mail address ... We will be getting Caspar to do likewise. ~ Phil Jones

God is everywhere, in the smallest grain of sand. ~ Caspar David Friedrich

Even an inaccurate missile is quite a deterrent. ~ Caspar Weinberger

I'm Caspar Vega, bitch. ~ Caspar Vega

You know nothing about pain. You know nothing about reality. All you know is what's inside your bubble. Well, I'm the needle about to pop it. Just you wait. ~ Caspar Vega

The realization that men and women cannot be friends unless they're also sleeping together. I have enough friends, I don't really need any more. ~ Caspar Vega

The pure, frank sentiments we hold in our hearts are the only truthful sources of art. ~ Caspar David Friedrich

Numbers are underrated. People are overrated. ~ Caspar Vega

I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full; I have to surrender myself to what encircles me, I have to merge with my clouds and rocks in order to be what I am. Solitude is indispensible for my dialogue with nature. ~ Caspar David Friedrich

Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, assessing a Polish crisis in 1984, said: "There's continuing ground for serious concern and the situation remains serious. The longer it remains serious, the more ground there is for serious concern. ~ William Zinsser

You can tell he never even considered the possibility of something like this happening to him. He's as out of his element hiring an investigator to snoop on his wife as he would be auditioning for a Russian ballet. ~ Caspar Vega

The artist should paint not only what he sees before him, but also what he sees within him. If, however, he sees nothing within him, then he should also refrain from painting that which he sees before him. Otherwise, his pictures will be like those folding screens behind which one expects to find only the sick or the dead. ~ Caspar David Friedrich

Well, aren't you full of shit! Also, Caspar and I will gossip about anything we please. ~ Elizabeth Hunter