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Taste of metal on my tongue. Poison the color of envy-
I'm delirious, you're delicious, I'm del...
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR I just wouldn’t want to hook up with a guy unless I really, really like him, and in my
experi...
DARIA SNADOWSKY Please don’t hate you??!! I hate that I love you. Loving you made me waste a year of my life. Lovi...
DARIA SNADOWSKY I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the fi...
GILDA RADNER They didn't have very far to fall--I knew just being a girl in the world handicapped your ability to...
EMMA CLINE I like the word 'fuck'. The word means what it means, but it also means whatever you need it to mean...
LISA GLATT Open the fridge and put
My heart on a plate.
I'm just as you left
me, and I taste eve...
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR blackmagic on a person
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ASTRODOST If he only knew how she refuse to let him go even when he was gone ~
TANYA GAMBHIR Slowly, I'm beginning to realise that what happened to me wasn't my fault, that I was taken advantag...
GIRL A When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w...
A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s...
CARTER CROCKER I enjoy being a girl.
PALOMA FAITH When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice.
APURVA GAGLANI Dr. Armonson stitched up her wrist wounds. Within five minutes of the transfusion he declared her ou...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES A universal truth that most mature women have learned, often the hard way.... When choosing a mate, ...
K.E. GARVEY If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live wi...
JOAN POWERS Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?'
'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh...
A.A. MILNE How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER I like being a Girl Scout.
DEBBIE REYNOLDS It's just fun just being a girl.
STACY KEIBLER ...If you can make a girl laugh - you can make her do anything...
MARILYN MONROE Girl! I'm here to make you look Fa-Bu-Lous!
FAKE CINNA If you’re the girl that needs a boyfriend, and once she loses that boyfriend needs to replace it w...
TAYLOR SWIFT Unsubscribe from should-a, would-a, could-a
MICHAEL H. DANSBURY A successful teacher is one who has atleast 2 students in his class, one who sees no reason to study...
APURVA GAGLANI When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.
SARA ZARR You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER It's loud, it's cheap, it's gaudy. It's like everything I've ever done - I LOVE IT!
BETTY GRABLE Then the truth is this: a good man can only aspire to be worthy of a good woman. She'll always be ou...
JAMES ANDERSON A godmother is always there and genuine.The help she has given will never be forgotten but will glis...
GARY F EVANS... If tomorrow was yesterday then yesterday would be tomorrow, if we think about the past why not think...
GARY F EVANS... Start seeing a way for yourself. Stop seeing a way for others.
APURVA GAGLANI and the girl and I get into her car and drive off into the hills and we go to her room and I take of...
BRET EASTON ELLIS History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
...
A.A. MILNE I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find ...
JOAN DIDION The cruising life isn't for all of us. It isn't even for most
of us, but it is for some of us, ...
JIM TREFETHEN You can put the girl in a relationship...," I began, putting my arm around her. "But you can't take ...
JOCELYN DAVIES If a girl comes to me first for a prom or a bar mitzvah and she likes the way she looks and her boyf...
BETSEY JOHNSON The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain...
SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need
SARAH J. MAAS I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
SARAH J. MAAS I went to Colby College in Waterville, ME and did picture it when I was writing 'Cum Laude.'...
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR I'm just a crazy person. I mean, I really didn't have any trouble coming up with weird ways ...
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR I remember, in my senior year, one of my teachers taking me aside and saying: 'You look really t...
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR You said she's a senior? Babe we're ALL crazy.
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR Just because we can't be together doesn't mean I don't love you
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR I know hate is a strong word and everything, but its okay: we're teenagers.
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR Back in my days as a children's book editor, my superiors caught on to the fact that teenagers w...
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR I certainly didn't say while writing 'Gossip Girl,' 'Oh this is going to be big!'...
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR Recently my publicist asked me for a college photo, and I realize how chubby I looked. I know this s...
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR Face it, you have to be sort of an egomaniac to write something down and think that anyone is going ...
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR My biggest fear in writing 'Gossip Girl' was that the characters would sound like stereotypi...
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR She was spoiled, but she wasn't lazy. She knew what she wanted, and because she believed absolutely ...
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR No matter the truth, people see what they want to see..
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR That's the problem with best friends. Sometimes they know you better than you know yourself.
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR 'Gossip Girl' came out in rapid succession over two years, so the endings always had to be s...
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR But I've always been fascinated with that prettiest-girl-in-the-class person that I never was, g...
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR I avoid the young adult section altogether if possible, although it's sometimes fun to catch a g...
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR I tend to stare at people and memorize what they're saying and how they say it.
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR When I meet other parents and they're more 'mumsy' than I am - you know, I don't wan...
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR I'd never really babysat. I feel like I'm Blair, or 'Gossip Girl.' A teenager, basic...
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR When I was 16, 17, 18 years old, I felt like I had seen it all and done it all, and I was really kin...
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR I'm always saying that my books are not autobiographical because they're not. I can't ch...
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR The girls show more skin these days, but I think, generally, they behave the same way as when I was ...
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR I have no sense of what I should or shouldn't talk about. I just blather. Which is why it's ...
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR I guess I was popular in high school.
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR I feel like 'Gossip Girl' isn't really 'Gossip Girl' anymore when they're aw...
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR I used to be an editor and I was editing young adult series. I didn't really like the books that...
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR It was so typical. Whenever Blair did anything nice for someone else, she usually regretted it.
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR Ladies,Please dress how you would like to be approached and talked to. Don't dress like a hoe and ex...
UNKNOWN Somewhere underneath it all, I know he doesn't deserve to take up space in my brain.
SUSANE COLASANTI Oh, how I wish I was a woman—his woman.
A.R. VON A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth
SOTONYE ANGA Save your ass, give my ass.... what a friend you are...
DEYTH BANGER they were all ordinary until they took the extraordinary steps with courage to leave the extraordina...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it.
MAE WEST There are no ugly women, only lazy ones
HELENA RUBINSTEIN Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she mana...
LESLIE MCINTYRE Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky
DEBORAH KERR Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk,...
PETRONIUS If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted - there is practically nothing she can't...
HELEN LAWRENSON Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn...
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could g...
BETTY GRABLE Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
JOSEPH CONRAD There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad dayl...
WASHINGTON IRVING I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.
MARY OLIVER The person that gives you a good book to read is more valuable than the one that gives you money,bec...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Endeavour to get a good name,because if you do,you will be indirectly making life easier for your gr...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A good quote is far better than the best selling books.
ANUJ SOMANY It's the curiosity that drives me. It's making a difference in the world that prevents me from ever ...
DEBORAH MEIER Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as w...
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN
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CECILY VON ZIEGESAR Open the fridge and put
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me, and I taste eve...
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR I avoid the young adult section altogether if possible, although it's sometimes fun to catch a g...
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR I tend to stare at people and memorize what they're saying and how they say it.
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CECILY VON ZIEGESAR When I was 16, 17, 18 years old, I felt like I had seen it all and done it all, and I was really kin...
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR I'm always saying that my books are not autobiographical because they're not. I can't ch...
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR The girls show more skin these days, but I think, generally, they behave the same way as when I was ...
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR I have no sense of what I should or shouldn't talk about. I just blather. Which is why it's ...
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR I guess I was popular in high school.
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR I feel like 'Gossip Girl' isn't really 'Gossip Girl' anymore when they're aw...
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR I used to be an editor and I was editing young adult series. I didn't really like the books that...
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR Taste of metal on my tongue. Poison the color of envy-
I'm delirious, you're delicious, I'm del...
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR It was so typical. Whenever Blair did anything nice for someone else, she usually regretted it.
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR Let's run away."
"To where?"
"Alaska."
"What's in Alaska?"
"No clue," I whisp...
CECILY WHITE I often avoid using the terms 'figuration' and 'abstraction' because I've always...
CECILY BROWN I've never been an impressionist. I was doing Sofia Vergara and Elizabeth Dole. I'm sometime...
CECILY STRONG Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr Lord of all pots and pans and things, since I've no time to ...
CECILY HALLECK I'd like to be reincarnated as a French tart. They're so beautiful and delicate - they'r...
CECILY STRONG My drama instructor suggested I try comedy. I was resistant at first because I considered myself a s...
CECILY STRONG I'm not high maintenance, and I'm not into a highly manicured man. I don't want to see a...
CECILY STRONG I think of myself as kind of a hippy. Everyone around me says that's not the impression they get...
CECILY STRONG It simplifies the process for people looking to apply for assistance programs.
CECILY FONG Death is a lot like prom - loud, overdone, and although the guy you came with was cool, you never kn...
CECILY WHITE During that legislative session (2003), we started a program called Prescription Connection for Nort...
CECILY FONG At that time it was not called PPA, but they offered us a simple Web site for free, that would allow...
CECILY FONG I was voted funniest person in my middle-school yearbook. So I guess I was funny in middle school?
CECILY STRONG It's a discomfiting thing to have the person you love more than anything in the world toss a knife a...
CECILY WHITE I'm not the kind of artist who has an idea and then carries it out; it's more like I find wh...
CECILY BROWN I have always wanted to make paintings that are impossible to walk past, paintings that grab and hol...
CECILY BROWN I actually graduated from the Chicago Academy for the Arts. I think John Cusack did as well.
CECILY STRONG When I write on 'SNL,' I've found I'm most productive while collaborating and joking...
CECILY STRONG There have been some terrible winters in Chicago, where it feels like I'm literally being punche...
CECILY STRONG I'm generally happier and more easy going when it's warm outside.
CECILY STRONG Food can be mean to me, but I love it anyway.
CECILY STRONG I always feel the most validated and confident being around people that I find funny - having Fred A...
CECILY STRONG I like Instagram - I love pictures, I just don't take them very often.
CECILY STRONG I do Twitter, but I'm still not great on it - I'm not good at writing short little jokes, so...
CECILY STRONG You have to put work into relationships to keep them fun.
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CECILY STRONG People have confused playing devil's advocate with being intelligent.
CECILY STRONG I grew up on 'S.N.L.,' doing all the sketches on the playground.
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CECILY BROWN Often, I find it really hard to see what I'm doing when I'm in the thick of things. I can ge...
CECILY BROWN My process is really quite organic, and starting a painting is one of the best parts for me. I alway...
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VON MILLER I've had asthma my whole life. My mom used to hook the generator up to the Suburban and roll the...
VON MILLER It was measured and copied and photographed, and then someone would get the assignment to replicate ...
VON HARDESTY When I see somebody in a Prius, sure, you drive a Prius and you get good gas mileage, but you probab...
THEO VON What he wanted to do was close a vulnerability to the West; to have an intercontinental, long-range ...
VON HARDESTY He was throwing free and easy, he wasn't struggling with getting his velocity up and basically pitch...
VON HAYES Their pitchers made an adjustment and our hitters didn't. The name of this game is to adjust when th...
VON HAYES Before that, plastic was a synonym of bad products. From the Middle Ages on, dolls were given infant...
CRISTIANE VON We didn't drive in a run. One was a balk and the other was an error. We missed so many opportunities...
VON HAYES Out of high school, I was, like, 202-205 pounds. My rookie season, I was, like, 245; my second year,...
VON MILLER The 'Road Rules' thing was just something that happened. It was never like when I was little...
THEO VON I got, like, 120 pairs of glasses and 800 pairs of sneakers.
VON MILLER They were found in tombs, beside children. Due to the custom of keeping objects with the dead, Egypt...
CRISTIANE VON I really don't look at myself as a defensive end or a linebacker or a cornerback or a safety. I ...
VON MILLER Oh, how I wish I was a woman—his woman.
A.R. VON As I recall, Gregg didn't have everyone. We got them at a good time. Besides, sum- mer time is summe...
VON GRAFFIN We finished tonight and I had talked about how we didn't finish in the other two games. We felt they...
VON GRAFFIN It's a phenomenal feat of human engineering.
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VON HARDESTY If the government were serious to begin with, we could have avoided a repeat of this type of disaste...
VON HERNANDEZ I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got marr...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG I don't believe in devils. Indifference and misunderstandings can create evil situations. Most o...
MAX VON SYDOW Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ My parents led this double life. They were in the underground movement to bring down the Nazis. My f...
VERUSCHKA VON LEHNDORFF I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to...
VERUSCHKA VON LEHNDORFF It has not been hard to grow older, because I believe if you have something you believe in, that wil...
VERUSCHKA VON LEHNDORFF Fame, I mean, it's like a bubble, in a way. It's like something glittery, and it goes, and i...
VERUSCHKA VON LEHNDORFF In the Sixties, fashion was about liberation. It was about setting women free; it wasn't about b...
VERUSCHKA VON LEHNDORFF Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be.
ROGER VON OECH A vacation spot out of season always has a very special magic.
MAX VON SYDOW Politics is the art of the next best.
OTTO VON BISMARCK Politics is not an exact science.
OTTO VON BISMARCK Politics ruins the character.
OTTO VON BISMARCK Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
OTTO VON BISMARCK A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or rig...
OTTO VON BISMARCK When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of...
OTTO VON BISMARCK To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
OTTO VON BISMARCK No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
OTTO VON BISMARCK A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and g...
OTTO VON BISMARCK I am not very tough with raising my children, but you can argue that to be more tough will help your...
LARS VON TRIER If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots...
LARS VON TRIER You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You ...
LARS VON TRIER When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour...
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LARS VON TRIER I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.
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LARS VON TRIER I know that I cannot be with a person for three hours without saying at least ten things that would ...
LARS VON TRIER I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology.
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LARS VON TRIER I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinkin...
LARS VON TRIER I would say that I am a poor Christian; I'm not a believer. It was this idea very early in my li...
LARS VON TRIER I always do something that I've never done before.
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LARS VON TRIER It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.
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LARS VON TRIER When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
LARS VON TRIER Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself...
LARS VON TRIER My films are about ideals that clash with the world. Every time it's a man in the lead, they hav...
LARS VON TRIER If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
LARS VON TRIER If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misus...
LARS VON TRIER I'm having a vacation, and it's so beautiful, and maybe I'll never get another film idea...
LARS VON TRIER Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.
LARS VON TRIER That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, ...
LARS VON TRIER Political correctness kills discussion.
LARS VON TRIER I have been a Professor Emeritus since 1958, and have continued my scientific studies.
KARL VON FRISCH I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910.
KARL VON FRISCH I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.
KARL VON FRISCH After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vie...
KARL VON FRISCH For both reasons, owing to the thermal motion and to the working together of various wavelengths, fa...
MAX VON LAUE While we maintain the unity of the human species, we at the same time repel the depressing assumptio...
ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT Love therefore
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet,...
MANFRED VON RICHTHOFEN When I started performing, there was no Internet; I didn't really have anything to copy. I kind ...
DITA VON TEESE In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stag...
ADELBERT VON CHAMISSO It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.
ROGER VON OECH Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just t...
JOHANN VON GOETHE We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
WERNER VON BRAUN Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.
ROGER VON OECH The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populat...
WERNER VON BRAUN To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Against stupidity the very gods fight in vain.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Dare to be wrong and to dream.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957 There are three less...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The sam...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Anyone taken as an individual, is tolerably sensible and reasonable- as a member of a crowd, he at o...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Mankind is made great or little by its own will.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and c...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an
indispensable and stimulating law ...
FRIEDRICH VON BERNHARDI War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political inter...
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ Without any formal personal finance education or trustworthy resources to tell them otherwise, the m...
ALEXA VON TOBEL Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best
OTTO VON BISMARCK Truth lives on in the midst of deception.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings. The earthquake means go...
LUDWIG VON MISES They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Life is the childhood of our immortality.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER We are shaped and fashioned by what whom we love.
JOHANN VON GOETHE If I love you, what business is it of yours?
JOHANN VON GOETHE Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unp...
JOHANN VON GOETHE That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have...
JOHANN VON GOETHE I'm very good at breaking up with people. Very good. It requires a lot of skill, but what you do...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG At eighty-eight how do you feel when getting up in the morning?...Amazed!
LUDWIG VON MISES He who considers too much will perform little.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER What shall he fear that does not fear death.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Soon is the struggle past, and to the earth,
To the eternal sun, I render back
These atoms, jo...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yield!
Against stupidity the very gods
Themselves contend i...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER War is the province of danger.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political inter...
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must be...
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fa...
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ Politics is the womb in which war develops.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ A conqueror is always a lover of peace.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often ten...
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ To secure peace is to prepare for war.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be consid...
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ Freedom exists only with power.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Before you can do something you must first be something.
JOHANN VON GOETHE How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do th...
JOHANN VON GOETHE The deed is everything, the glory is naught.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnes...
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