Von Trapp Quotes

#1. I was slowly taking on the dimensions of a chest of drawers. - Author: Maria Franziska Von Trapp

#2. I can't seem to stop singing wherever I am. And what's worse, I can't seem to stop saying things
anything and everything I think and feel. - Author: Maria Von Trapp

#3. Our age has become so mechanical that this has also affected our recreation. People have gotten used to sitting down and watching a movie, a ball game, a television set. It may be good once in a while, but it certainly is not good all the time. Our own faculties, our imagination, our memory, the ability to do things with our mind and our hands–they need to be exercised. If we become too passive, we get dissatisfied. - Author: Maria Augusta Von Trapp

#4. How dry eyes can get when they are not allowed to cry! - Author: Maria Franziska Von Trapp

#5. We have now the precious opportunity to find out for ourselves whether the words we have heard and read so often can be taken literally: 'Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His justice, and all these things shall be added until you'. - Author: Maria Von Trapp

#6. Growing up, I had one very specific idea of what a wedding should be, and that was the wedding of Fraulein Maria and Captain von Trapp in 'The Sound of Music.' - Author: Ellie Kemper

#7. The most striking difference between little ones and grownups is that little ones cannot worry, and they cannot worry because they have no past and no future. They live only in the present moment. Just watch children. If they play, they play and don't even hear us call them and don't notice anything that is going on around them. If they eat, they eat; if they sleep, they sleep. There is a beautiful English word which describes how they do whatever they do, they do it 'whole-heartedly', whereas grownups always are half-hearted. - Author: Maria Augusta Von Trapp

#8. What is the usual reaction among our friends and neighbors if in a family something unexpected happens? ... Telephone and [email] are immediately put to work ... and the incident is discussed for days on end. It is no wonder there is no time left in which to ponder on what it might mean, what message God might want to bring home to us by permitting this or that to happen in our lives ... 'To ponder' is an all-but-forgotten art in our days. Who thinks? We don't need to anymore. The TV and [internet] do it for us. - Author: Maria Augusta Von Trapp

#9. I feel like a von Trapp," Ruby said between puffs, "But fatter, older and with absolutely no energy for singing. - Author: Kate Morton

#10. Music- what a powerful instrument, what a mighty weapon! - Author: Maria Augusta Von Trapp

#11. We learned the shocking truth that "home" isn't necessarily a certain spot on earth. It must be a place where you can "feel" at home, which means "free" to us. - Author: Maria Augusta Von Trapp

#12. When you are a child of the mountains yourself, you really belong to them. You need them. They become the faithful guardians of your life. If you cannot dwell on their lofty heights all your life, if you are in trouble, you want at least to look at them. - Author: Maria Franziska Von Trapp

#13. Austrian U-boat commander named Georg von Trapp, later to gain eternal renown when played by Christopher Plummer in the film The Sound of Music, fired two torpedoes into a large French cruiser, the Leon Gambetta. The ship sank in nine minutes, killing 684 sailors. "So that's what war looks like!" von Trapp wrote in a later memoir. He told his chief officer, "We are like highway men, sneaking up on an unsuspecting ship in such a cowardly fashion. - Author: Erik Larson

#14. You could try being pleasant and malleable," she suggested. "I'd probably find it a complete turn-off. I didn't realize I had this penchant for militant men. It's giving me whole new insights into my personality."
"Militant?"
"I thought it sounded more polite than 'bossy.' No?"
"I'm not bossy."
He actually sounded like he believed that.
"Okay, Captain Von Trapp. Keep telling yourself that."
She'd broken the stern director facade again. He was grinning. - Author: Lucy Parker

#15. Love is an excellent thing and a very great blessing, indeed. It makes every difficulty easy. It bears a burden without being weighted, and renders sweet all that is bitter. Love knows no limits, feels no burden, thinks nothing of troubles, attempts more than it is able, because it believes that it may and can do all things; for this reason it is able to do all, performing much where he who does not love fails and falls. Love is watchful. Sleeping, it does not slumber. Like a living flame, a burning torch, it tends upward and passes unharmed through every obstacle. Whatever faults may be committed, big or small, whatever clouds may pile up on the horizon, dark and threatening, love will overcome all. - Author: Maria Augusta Von Trapp

#16. I was Aladdin, and then I was Captain Von Trapp from 'Sound Of Music' when I was 7 or 8, and then King Arthur. I was always the lead. I've always enjoyed being onstage, acting obnoxious, being someone that wasn't me, hiding behind a character. - Author: Christopher Mintz-Plasse

#17. 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. - Author: Maria Von Trapp

#18. The grief of a child is always terrible. It is bottomless, without hope. A child has no past and no future. It just lives in the present moment - wholeheartedly. If the present moment spells disaster, the child suffers it with his whole heart, his whole soul, his whole strength, his whole little being ... - Author: Maria Franziska Von Trapp

#19. Jukeboxes, radio and television, going from dawn to dusk, help spread the poison of synthetic, artificial, rhythmical noise. - Author: Maria Franziska Von Trapp

#20. Off the southeast tip of Italy a young Austrian U-boat commander named Georg von Trapp, later to gain eternal renown when played by Christopher Plummer in the film The Sound of Music, fired two torpedoes into a large French cruiser, the Leon Gambetta. The ship sank in nine minutes, killing 684 sailors. "So that's what war looks like!" von Trapp wrote in a later memoir. He told his chief officer, "We are like highway men, sneaking up on an unsuspecting ship in such a cowardly fashion." Fighting in a trench or aboard a torpedo boat would have been better, he said. "There you hear shooting, hear your comrades fall, you hear the wounded groaning - you become filled with rage and can shoot men in self defense or fear; at an assault you can even yell! But we! Simply cold-blooded to drown a mass of men in an ambush! - Author: Erik Larson

#21. It will be very interesting one day to follow the pattern of our life as it is spread out like a beautiful tapestry. As long as we live here we see only the reverse side of the weaving, and very often the pattern, with its threads running wildly, doesn't seem to make sense. Some day, however, we shall understand.
In looking back over the years we can discover how a red thread goes through the pattern of our life: the Will of God. - Author: Maria Augusta Von Trapp

#22. Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens. - Author: Maria Augusta Von Trapp

#23. One of the greatest things in human life is the ability to make plans. Even if they never come true-the joy of anticipating is irrevocably yours. That way one can live many more than just one life. - Author: Maria Augusta Von Trapp

#24. The government and its chiefs do not have the powers of the mythical Santa Claus. They cannot spend except by taking out of the pockets of some people for the benefit of others. - Author: Ludwig Von Mises

#25. I have always been convinced that one can be more successful in business with honest, fair and legal behavior than with tricks. - Author: Heinrich Von Pierer

#26. The government desires to purchase; it desires to use the market, not to disorganize it. But the officially-fixed price does disorganize the market in which commodities and services are bought and sold for money. Commerce, so far as it is able, seeks relief in other ways. It re-develops a system of direct exchange, in which commodities and services are exchanged without the instrumentality of money. Those who are forced to dispose of commodities and services at the fixed prices do not dispose of them to everybody, but merely to those to whom they wish to do a favour. Would-be purchasers wait in long queues in order to snap up what they can get before it is too late; they race breathlessly from shop to shop, hoping to find one that is not yet sold out. - Author: Ludwig Von Mises

#27. I've never been in a barroom brawl in my life. I just don't do such things. - Author: Max Von Sydow

#28. Later, I collaborated with a number of wonderful co-authors, all of whom are friends as well: Stan Finkelstein, - Author: Eric Von Hippel

#29. The alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone. - Author: Ludwig Von Mises

#30. Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea. - Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#31. With bad laws and good civil servants it's still possible to govern. But with bad civil servants even the best laws can't help. - Author: Otto Von Bismarck

#32. My mother said that we're so lucky to be women. It's not that men are weak. Men are men. We're two completely different animals. - Author: Diane Von Furstenberg

#33. I think of all my time as existing in 15-minute blocks. Most people think in terms of 30-minute chunks, but I've found that when I free up more time, I waste it. - Author: Alexa Von Tobel

#34. I have never looked at foreign countries or gone there but with the purpose of getting to know the general human qualities that are spread all over the earth in very different forms, and then to find these qualities again in my own country and to recognize and to further them. - Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#35. Unless the habit leads to happiness the best habit is to contract none. - Author: Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

#36. This war is really the greatest insanity in which white races have ever been engaged. - Author: Alfred Von Tirpitz

#37. A film should be like a rock in the shoe. - Author: Lars Von Trier

#38. If you are trying to slip out without waking a sleeping man, zips are a nightmare. Haven't you ever tried to creep out of the room unnoticed the following morning? I've done that many times. - Author: Diane Von Furstenberg

#39. I have often regretted what I have eaten, but never what I have drunk. - Author: Otto Von Bismarck

#40. I came into the world either too early or too late; at present, I am good for nothing. - Author: Klemens Von Metternich

#41. There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. - Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#42. Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students? - Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#43. All things are only transitory. - Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#44. Presents at once? That's good. He is sure to succeed. - Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#45. We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out, only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant. - Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#46. Ever since the beginning of modern science, the best minds have recognized that "the range of acknowledged ignorance will grow with the advance of science." Unfortunately, the popular effect of this scientific advance has been a belief, seemingly shared by many scientists, that the range of our ignorance is steadily diminishing and that we can therefore aim at more comprehensive and deliberate control of all human activities. It is for this reason that those intoxicated by the advance of knowledge so often become the enemies of freedom. - Author: Friedrich August Von Hayek

#47. For only to the extent that we empathize do we have the right to speak about a matter. - Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#48. What man does not know,
Or has not thought of,
Wanders in the night
Through the labyrinth of the mind. - Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#49. No increase in the welfare of the member of society can result from the availability of an additional quantity of money. - Author: Ludwig Von Mises

#50. In abbreviated form, by a kind of symbol, only the most essential information is passed on and passed on only to those concerned. It is more than a metaphor to describe the price system as a kind of machinery for registering change, or a system of telecommunications which enables individual producers to watch merely the movement of a few pointers, as an engineer might watch the hands of a few dials, in order to adjust their activities to changes of which they may never know more than is reflected in the price movement. - Author: Friedrich August Von Hayek

#51. If I am not mistaken, psychology, psychiatry and some branches of sociology, not to speak about the so-called philosophy of history, are even more affected by what I have called the scientistic prejudice, and by specious claims of what science can achieve. - Author: Friedrich August Von Hayek

#52. What use is it that knowledge mounts? It's knowing something good that counts. - Author: Friedrich Von Logau

#53. In order for us to use the very best judgment possible in spending the taxpayer's money intelligently, we just have to do a certain amount of this research and development work ourselves. We just have to keep our own hands dirty to command the professional respect of the contractor personnel engaged with actual design, shop and testing work. - Author: Wernher Von Braun

#54. The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace. - Author: Ludwig Von Mises

#55. Least of all shall we preserve democracy or foster its growth if all the power and most of the important decisions rest with an organization far too big for the common man to survey or comprehend. - Author: Friedrich August Von Hayek

#56. I have always had a liking for pilgrimages, and if I had lived in the Middle Ages would have spent most of my time on the way to Rome. The pilgrims, leaving all their cares at home, the anxieties of their riches or their debts, the wife that worried and the children that disturbed, took only their sins with them, and turning back on their obligations, set out with that sole burden, and perhaps a cheerful heart. - Author: Elizabeth Von Arnim

#57. Vatican's secretly composed message to all of Germany's Catholics. On Palm Sunday, 1937, the letter had been read by every priest, bishop, and cardinal across Germany to their congregations and three hundred thousand copies had been disseminated. Drafted by Munich's Cardinal von Faulhaber and Pope Pius XI, it told German Catholics in carefully veiled terms that National Socialism was an evil religion based on racism that stood contrary to the church's teachings and every man's right to equality. It made reference to "an insane and arrogant prophet" without naming Hitler. - Author: Adam Makos

#58. Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down ? That's not my department. - Author: Wernher Von Braun

#59. For both reasons, owing to the thermal motion and to the working together of various wavelengths, factors arise which, in a similar manner to the structural factor, exert some influence upon the brightness of the interference points but not upon their location. - Author: Max Von Laue

#60. In Stalin's famous words, one death is a tragedy; one million deaths is a statistic. In this case, it is not even a particularly good statistic. The very incomprehensibility of what a million horrible and violent deaths might mean, and the impossibility of producing an appropriate response, is perhaps the reason that the events following partition have yielded such a great and moving body of fictional literature and such an inadequate and flimsy factual history. What does it matter to the readers of history today whether there were 200,000 deaths, or 1 million, or 2 million? On that scale, is it possible to feel proportional revulsion, to be five times more upset at 1 million deaths than at 200,000? Few can grasp the awfulness of how it might feel to have their fathers barricaded in their houses and burnt alive, their mothers beaten and thrown off speeding trains, their daughters torn away, raped and branded, their sons held down in full view, screaming and pleading, while a mob armed with rough knives hacked off their hands and feet. All these things happened, and many more like them; not just once, but perhaps a million times. It is not possible to feel sufficient emotion to appreciate this monstrous savagery and suffering. That is the true horror of the events in the Punjab in 1947: one of the vilest episodes in the whole of history, a devastating illustration of the worst excesses to which human beings can succumb. The death toll is just a number. - Author: Alex Von Tunzelmann