Otto Wichterle Quotes

#1. My hope is that light, flexible architecture might bring about a new and open society. - Author: Frei Otto

#2. My pleasure in 'hell-raising' in class is my pleasure in chaos, - Author: Otto Weininger

#3. No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing. - Author: Otto Von Bismarck

#4. H.I.V.E. will not tolerate unauthorized violence between students, especially students that have only been here for a matter of hours."
"I was just introducing myself," Otto replied innocently. "I'm afraid I appear to have inadvertently offended them somehow. - Author: Mark Walden

#5. In England the more horses a nobleman has, the more popular he is. So long as the English are devoted to racing, Socialism has no chance with you. - Author: Otto Von Bismarck

#6. Most of the Mardukans were laughing, now. Some of them were accusing him of being just too utterly ridiculous.

"Why, the people are the Government. The people would not legislate themselves into slavery."

He wished Otto Harkaman were there. All he knew of history was the little he had gotten from reading some of Harkaman's books, and the long, rambling conversations aboard ship in hyperspace or in the evenings at Rivington. But Harkaman, he was sure, could have furnished hundreds of instances, on scores of planets and over ten centuries of time, in which people had done exactly that and hadn't known what they were doing, even after it was too late. - Author: H. Beam Piper

#7. Small sacrifices must be made. - Author: Otto Lilienthal

#8. Art of all periods teaches us that humanity changes, and that a period, once past, never returns. - Author: Philipp Otto Runge

#9. unhooked telephone": the - Author: Otto F. Kernberg

#10. Hitherto the conception of chemical transmission at nerve endings and neuronal synapses, originating in Loewi's discovery, and with the extension that the work of my colleagues has been able to give to it, can claim one practical result, in the specific, though alas only short, alleviation of the condition of myasthenia gravis, by eserine and its synthetic analogues. - Author: Henry Hallett Dale

#11. All that we may ever hope to establish in historical research are facts and conditions but never causes. - Author: Otto E. Neugebauer

#12. Earthly majesty is always akin to the fallen angel, who is proud and unhappy, beautiful but troubled, and whose plans and efforts, though vast, are denied access. - Author: Otto Von Bismarck

#13. Life is a journey - Author: Otto Mated Testla

#14. Art is life's dream interpretation. - Author: Otto Rank

#15. Amadora was never far from her understanding of women, glamour, or the fine line between elegant and camp, vulgar and vibrant, life and dreams ... Color, she believed, was feminine. She said that women were masters of color, evidenced in changing their hair color, using eye shadow, mascara, powder, rouge, lipstick. You could see it in their jewelry- silvers and golds, gems, stones, pearls of every hue. It was in their clothing, from what they slept in to what they danced in. Their shoes. Their purses. Ribbons, barrettes, clips, and tiaras. Veils. All this color to enhance their sex appeal, while men, she felt, were ill-equipped to handle color with the same ease. - Author: Whitney Otto

#16. The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization. - Author: Otto Rank

#17. Talent is hereditary; it may be the common possession of a whole family (eg, the Bach family); genius is not transmitted; it is never diffused, but is strictly individual. - Author: Otto Weininger

#18. In those rare individual cases where women approach genius they also approach masculinity. - Author: Otto Weininger

#19. The psychical condition of men's minds may be compared with a set of bells close together, and so arranged that in the ordinary man a bell rings only when one beside it sounds, and the vibration lasts only a moment. In the genius, when a bell sounds it vibrates so strongly that it sets in action the whole series, and remains in action throughout life. The latter kind of movement often gives rise to extraordinary conditions and absurd impulses, that may last for weeks together and that form the basis of the supposed kinship of genius with insanity. - Author: Otto Weininger

#20. Creation requires sacrifice and when it is finished it is embraced by a few but misunderstood and rejected by many. - Author: Christ John Otto

#21. Down below the broad, roaring waves of the sea break against the deep foundation of the rock. But high above the mountain, the sea, and the peaks of rock the eternal ornamentation blooms silently from the dark depths of the universe. - Author: Rudolf Otto

#22. One would think that plants belonging to the same genus would always produce identical or at least similar oils. But this is by no means so. - Author: Otto Wallach

#23. A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward. - Author: Otto Von Bismarck

#24. People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt. - Author: Otto Von Bismarck

#25. Great men have always preferred women of the prostitute type. - Author: Otto Weininger

#26. God always looks after the fools and - and the United States. - Author: Otto Von Bismarck

#27. We shouldn't just always talk about human rights; we should also point out human obligations. - Author: Otto Carius

#28. Politics ruins the character - Author: Otto Von Bismarck

#29. We cannot change what happened anymore. The only thing we can do is to learn from the past and to realize what discrimination and persecution of innocent people means. I believe that it's everyone's responsibility to fight prejudice. - Author: Otto Frank

#30. Neurosis is the result of willing the spontaneous. - Author: Otto Rank

#31. We don't need the Nazis to destroy us. We're destroying ourselves - Author: Otto Frank

#32. The Jew is an inborn Communist. - Author: Otto Weininger

#33. The great man of science, unless he is also a philosopher, ... deserves the title of genius as little as the man of action. - Author: Otto Weininger

#34. Greece won the 2004 European Championship with the oldest trick in the book: man-for-man marking. Why? Because nobody expected it - and by the time they knew what Otto Rehhagel's team were about, it was too late. Great football is like great comedy in that way. It is all in the timing. - Author: Martin Samuel

#35. We'd better get a move on,' Shelby said, quickly doing up the fastenings on her own suit. 'Francisco said that the Professor has some cool new toys for us.'

'I believe he actually said assault weapons,' Wing said.

'Right,' Shelby said. 'New toys!'

'You know, I do worry about you sometimes,' Wing said, shaking his head.

'What can I say? I'm a twenty-first-century girl. Who wants flowers and chocolates, when you can have body armour and bullets?' Shelby said, giving Wing a quick peck on the cheek as she walked out of the room.

'Is it right that I should occasionally be slightly frightened of my girlfriend?' Wing asked as he watched her leave.

'As I understand it, that's perfectly normal,' Otto replied with a grin. - Author: Mark Walden

#36. When the songs pop out, that's like the climax of us building. - Author: John Otto

#37. Fools say that they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by others experience. - Author: Otto Von Bismarck

#38. Stop bothering me with your pathetic politics - I'd rather go to the whorehouse. - Author: Otto Dix

#39. Politics is not a science, as the professors are apt to suppose. It is an art. - Author: Otto Von Bismarck

#40. I just can't think how I would go on without children having lost Edith already ... It's too upsetting for me to write about them. Naturally, I still hope, and wait, wait, wait. - Author: Otto Frank

#41. Accurate enough to make the shots you need to make, Franz?' Otto asked.

'Yes, they are being very nice,' Franz said, nodding happily. 'Do not worry, my lack of accuracy on the range was due to the compensating for increased muzzle velocity.'

'Right,' Otto said, not bothering to point out that if they had been keeping a tally his shots would have outscored all the rest of them put together. - Author: Mark Walden

#42. Life has taught me to forgive much, but to seek forgiveness still more. - Author: Otto Von Bismarck

#43. What?' Otto said as he finished soldering one of the contact points on the device in front of him. 'It's not like we're being trained to follow the rules here. If anything, I think Nero should reward us for our determination and initiative.'

'Can you fit "determination and initiative" on a headstone?' Laura asked as she leant in to examine Otto's handiwork. - Author: Mark Walden

#44. The terrorists who committed the 2003 Istanbul attacks were locals, that is, Turks. And when filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered in the Netherlands last year, the murderer and his supporters were also part of the Muslim community. - Author: Otto Schily

#45. Later, Jenny would say she seldom knew what she would take a picture of when she picked up a camera, that she only knew once she peered through the viewfinder, as if the photograph had finally found her. - Author: Whitney Otto

#46. I was told in high school that the last game during your senior year stays with you forever, which is true. - Author: Jim Otto

#47. If I photograph you in the shadows, you become mysterious, perhaps unknowable. If I light you from above, so your eyelashes throw shadows on your cheeks, you could be a Hollywood film star. - Author: Whitney Otto

#48. Faust complained about having two souls in his breast, but I harbor a whole crowd of them and they quarrel. It is like being in a republic. - Author: Otto Von Bismarck

#49. I don't believe in ghosts and have never seen one. I wish I could see one, and I would like to have seen one because then I could believe in God. If I can see it, feel it and taste it, then I believe in it. - Author: Otto Penzler