Moist Von Lipwig Quotes

Doesn't this place give you the creeps? You could perhaps do something with some floral wallpaper and a fire-bomb. ~ Terry Pratchett

Moist waited. Lord Vetinari could outstare a statue and make even a statue start to feel nervous and confess. Moist's counter was a fetching grin, which he knew annoyed Vetinari beyond measure, and there was absolute silence in the Oblong Office while blank stare and cheery grin battled it out for supremacy in some other dimension. ~ Terry Pratchett

Looking out the window, Moist saw a small swarm of goblins leave the train and at first he thought, ha! Trust the buggers to run away, and then he mentally corrected himself: that was storybook thinking and with clearer eyesight and a bit of understanding he realized that the goblins were scrambling up to the delvers on the rocks and beating the shit out of them by diving into the multiple layers of dwarf clothing. The delvers discovered all too rapidly that trying to fight while a busy goblin was in your underwear was very bad for the concentration. ~ Terry Pratchett

Moist groaned. It was the crack of seven and he was allergic to the concept of two seven o'clocks in one day. ~ Terry Pratchett

Still, in summing up the situation, we must not forget that the New Left expresses certain truths and truisms and provides us with not a few straws in the wind. However immature, destructive, sterile, and confused, it is a cry of anguish and protest against a mechanized, profoundly leftish age. It is, in a sense, leftism to end all leftism. ~ Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

There are flying grandfathers. But I intend to be an orbiting grandfather. ~ Wernher Von Braun

He serves me somewhat darkly, now, I grant, Yet will he soon attain the light of reason. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Being attractive for a few hours some evening is hardly worth being that unattractive all day (in hot rollers). Being yourself and being natural with a man is wonderful, but being downright unattractive with him is foolish. ~ Diane Von Furstenberg

You are all the happiness," he said, with an energy of conviction astonishing at half-past nine in the morning, "and all the music, and all the colour, and all the fragrance there is in the world. ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim

There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Before it was usual to acquire goods in the market, not for personal consumption, but simply in order to exchange them again for the goods that were really wanted, each individual commodity was only accredited with that value given by the subjective valuations based on its direct utility. It was not until it became customary to acquire certain goods merely in order to use them as media of exchange that people began to esteem them more highly than before, on account of this possibility of using them in indirect exchange. The individual valued them in the first place because they were useful in the ordinary sense, and then additionally because they could be used as media of exchange. Both sorts of valuation are subject to the law of marginal utility. ~ Ludwig Von Mises

Politics is the art of the next best. ~ Otto Von Bismarck

Reading ought to mean understanding; writing ought to mean knowing something; believing ought to mean comprehending; when you desire a thing, you will have to take it; when you demand it, you will not get it; and when you are experienced, you ought to be useful to others. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

One must flee those places where life throbs and seek out lonely spots untouched by human hand in order to lift the magic veil of nature ~ Guido Von List

Nature! We live in her midst and know her not. She is incessantly speaking to us, but betrays not her secret. We constantly act upon her, and yet have no power over her. Variant: NATURE! We are surrounded and embraced by her: powerless to separate ourselves from her, and powerless to penetrate beyond her. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I find it very hard to take myself seriously. ~ Max Von Sydow

It cannot be right to be the slave of one's household gods, and I protest that if my furniture ever annoyed me by wanting to be dusted when I wanted to be doing something else, and there was no one to do the dusting for me, I would cast it all into the nearest bonfire and sit and warm my toes at the flames with great contentment, triumphantly selling my dusters to the very next pedlar who was weak enough to buy them. Parsons ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim

There is a staggering perversity in all the human categories that are applied to the God-man; for if we could speak in a completely human way about Christ we would have to say that the words "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" show a want of patience and a want of truth. Only if God says it, can it be true, i.e., even if the God-man says it. And since it is true, it is also truly the climax of pain. The relationship to God is evidently such a tremendous weight of blessedness that, once I have laid hold of it, it is absolute in the most absolute sense; by contrast, the worldly notion that my enemies are to be excluded from it would actually diminish this blessedness. The ~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar

As usual, I shall tell my story badly; and you, as usual, will think me extravagant. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I put a lot of weight on feelings and am weirdly in touch with them, which is not typical for an engineer. ~ Luis Von Ahn

Freedom can be preserved only if it is treated as a supreme principle which must not be sacrificed for particular advantages. ~ Friedrich August Von Hayek

We maintain, on the contrary, that war is simply a continuation of political intercourse, with the addition of other means. We deliberately use the phrase "with the addition of other means" because we also want to make it clear that war in itself does not suspend political intercourse or change it into something entirely different. In essentials that intercourse continues, irrespective of the means it employs. ~ Carl Von Clausewitz

Adolf von Gordon's last words at the trial are ironic: I should be far from passing a final judgment on Talat the man. What can be said objectively I said at the start. But I do wish to state one more thing: like many of his comrades, he certainly worked for the extermination of the Armenian people in order to create a purely pan-Turkish state; he certainly here used means that seem intolerable to us Europeans. ~ Eric Bogosian

The truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody ... It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous. ~ Ludwig Von Mises

To the man of thought almost nothing is really ridiculous. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Only in Christ are all things in communion. He is the point of convergence of all hearts and beings and therefore the bridge and the shortest way from each to each. ~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar

Sleep is easier to make up than a unique evening. ~ Diane Von Furstenberg

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

All force strives forward to work far and wide
To live and grow and ever to expand;
Yet we are checked and thwarted on each side
By the world's flux and swept along like sand:
In this internal storm and outward tide
We hear a promise, hard to understand:
From the compulsion that all creatures binds,
Who overcomes himself, his freedom finds. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Listen, always listen. Most people at the beginnings of their lives don't know what they want to be unless you have a real vocation, like a pianist or a doctor, so it is very important to listen. Sometimes there are doors that will open and you think it is not an important door and yet it is- so it's very important to be curious and pay attention, because sometimes you learn and you don't even know you're learning. ~ Diane Von Furstenburg

Poor souls! their miseries seem so much to please 'em, I scarce can find it in my heart to tease 'em. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It's in the anomalies that nature reveals its secrets. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

In the last analysis, luck comes only to the well prepared. ~ Helmuth Von Moltke The Elder

The Queue consists entirely of fragments of ochered' dialogue, a linguistic vernacular anchored by the long-suffering word stoyat' (to stand). You stood? Yes, stood. Three hours. Got damaged ones. Wrong size. Here's what the line wasn't: a gray inert nowhere. Imagine instead an all-Soviet public square, a hurly-burly where comrades traded gossip and insults, caught up with news left out of the newspapers, got into fistfights, or enacted comradely feats. In the thirties the NKVD had informers in queues to assess public moods, hurrying the intelligence straight to Stalin's brooding desk. Lines shaped opinions and bred ad hoc communities: citizens from all walks of life standing, united by probably the only truly collective authentic Soviet emotions: yearning and discontent (not to forget the unifying hostility toward war veterans and pregnant women, honored comrades allowed to get goods without a wait). ~ Anya Von Bremzen

'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded. ~ Friedrich August Von Hayek

When you lose interest in anything, you also lose the memory for it. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation without a plan is like tennis without tennis balls. ~ Lars Von Trier

Freedom necessarily means that many things will be done which we do not like. ~ Friedrich August Von Hayek

One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The basic idea of Games With a Purpose is that we are taking a problem that computers cannot yet solve, and we are getting people to solve it for us while they are playing a game. ~ Luis Von Ahn

What men usually say of misfortunes, that they never come alone, may with equal truth be said of good fortune; nay, of other circumstances which gather round us in a harmonious way, whether it arise from a kind of fatality, or that man has the power of attracting to himself things that are mutually related. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Battle not with monsters, for then you become one. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The murder of a man is still murder, even in wartime. ~ Manfred Von Richthofen

Everybody knows what the moon is, everybody knows what this decade is, and everybody can tell a live astronaut who returned from the moon from one who didn't ~ Wernher Von Braun

I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together. ~ Carl Von Clausewitz

Music strikes the ear as a perfectly undisturbed uniform sound which remains unaltered as long as it exists. ~ Hermann Von Helmholtz

The most dangerous of our impulses reign in ourselves against ourselves. To dissolve them is a creative act. ~ Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

Our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Goals change, ideas of technology are transformed, but action always remains action. Action always seeks means to realize ends, and it is in this sense always rational and mindful of utility. It is, in a word, human. ~ Ludwig Von Mises

To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely. ~ Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

Coffee in Brazil is always made fresh and, except at breakfast time, drunk jet black from demitasses first filled almost to the brim with the characteristic moist, soft coffee sugar of the country, which melts five times as fast as our hard granulated. For breakfast larger cups are used, and they're more than half filled with cream. This cafe con leite doesn't re-quire so much sugar as cafe preto-black coffee. ~ Bob Brown

Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be. ~ Roger Von Oech

Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking. ~ Lars Von Trier