Stability is not immobility.
Klemens Von Metternich
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KLEMENS VON METTERNICH The men who make history have not time to write it.
KLEMENS VON METTERNICH Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.
KLEMENS VON METTERNICH Italy is a geographical expression.
KLEMENS VON METTERNICH When France has a cold, all Europe sneezes
KLEMENS VON METTERNICH It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them
KLEMENS VON METTERNICH The men who make history have not time to write it
KLEMENS VON METTERNICH Italy is only a geographical expression
KLEMENS VON METTERNICH The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and ev...
MARIA MONTESSORI The men who make history have not time to write it.
METTERNICH To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
YANN MARTEL Primates feel pure, flat immobility as boredom. But dogs feel it as peace.
ELIZABETH MARSHALL THOMAS Wie befreit man die Erde von den Menschen? Indem man die Menschen von ihrer Menschlichkeit befreit.
RICK YANCEY There is no stability without solidarity and no solidarity without stability.
JOSE MANUEL BARROSO Maturity is always inherited from Stability but not the other way around.
TORNADO KAI Daher ist die Dichtkunst Sache von phantasiebegabten oder von leidenschaftlichen Naturen; die einen ...
ARISTOTLE He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.
[Ger., Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Berlin is all about volatility. Its identity is based not on stability but on change.
RORY MACLEAN Price stability, exchange rate stability, consistency of economic policy. That is all taking place.
ALI ALLAWI Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Tony Judt's remarkable 'The Memory Chalet' was written from the prison of mute immobilit...
EDITH PEARLMAN Im Jahr 1970 noch protestierten Feministinnen gegen die Vergegenständlichung von Frauen in mondäne...
KATHLEEN BARRY Stability is so important,
LOVIE SMITH I commend my soul to any god that can find it.
TERRY PRATCHETT No social stability without individual stability.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobilit...
HENRY MILLER We also need stability and prosperity. And stability and prosperity is very very basic in Hong Kong.
MA LIK Those who have trusted where they ought not,
will surely mistrust where they ought not."
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ALEATHA ROMIG Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform ...
REBECCA WEST Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stabili...
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB In Begleitung von erlesenen Schmerzen.« Rincewind zögerte. Er war ziemlich sicher, die Bedeutung d...
TERRY PRATCHETT To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another. -G.W. Von Leibnitz.
G.W. VON LEIBNITZ Stability. I'm looking for stability. The key word that Craig said is shared vision. That's what we'...
ERIC HYMAN The price of stability is unpreparedness.
ANTHONY RYAN The state's interest in marriage is stability. Generally speaking, polygamy does not work for st...
GENE ROBINSON IF YOU CAN'T THANK GOD FOR WHAT YOU HAVE, THANK HIM FOR WHAT YOU HAVE ESCAPED!
NOT SURE i believe in love. lust. sex. romance. i don't want everything to add up to the perfect equation...i...
NOT REAL A conservative is a liberal who just got mugged and a liberal is a conservative who just got arreste...
NOT SURE If you are constantly looking in the rear view mirror, how will you ever see what is in front of you...
NOT SURE Stability of your heart reflects the stability of your surroundings.
FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE My concern is not for me, ... but for Jordan, its stability, its progress, its democracy (and) its p...
KING HUSSEIN His presence is going to create stability.
CHARLES MILLARD We all want to trust someone ,but we all think that what we see is real and the truth but if we trul...
GARY F EVANS... Money is not everything.
BEN OAK Like Prince von Bismarck in diplomacy, I have no secrets.
ALBERT J. NOCK It was not overkill, it was a reaction that will put stability.
ROMEO SERRA You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there's still going to be somebody who hates...
DITA VON TEESE Students, eh? Love 'em or hate 'em, you can't hit them with a shovel!
TERRY PRATCHETT We can't just drop everything, sir!"
"Mister Lipwig. Is there something in the word 'tyrant' yo...
TERRY PRATCHETT Yet without Chaos there would be no Creation, and perhaps no Creator. That is the simple truth of al...
MICHAEL MOORCOCK The Führer's judgement will be proved right - again.'
'Of course it will, Erik.'
'He has ...
KEN FOLLETT Ideally a woman should not have a career unless it is necessary for the financial stability of the m...
MELISSA SADOFF I'm not bitter about Hollywood's treatment of me, but of its treatment of Griffith, von Sternberg, B...
ORSON WELLES We consider ourselves very lucky.
KLEMENS FASS [Western companies] have invested billions of dollars, so of course they are interested in stability...
ISA GAMBAR Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for ou...
DALAI LAMA Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for ou...
DALAI LAMA XIV No one has characterized market mechanisms better than Friedrich von Hayek.
HERBERT SIMON It was two years ago during spring VON. No one came.
JEFF PULVER After the verb "To Love"..."To Help" is the most beautiful verb in the world. -Bertha Von Suttner.
BERTHA VON SUTTNER Try repeating “man is an animal" a few times, just to notice how unconvincing it sounds. There see...
ERNEST BECKER Ich bin gern erlöst von meinem Spiegelbild, von der Frage, wie ich aussehe. Auch ohne Spiegel weiß...
PAULINE DEBOK Life isn't stable. Stability is unnatural. The only stable society is the police state. You can have...
TOM ROBBINS A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a h...
JOHN STUART MILL Archimedes said that with a long enough lever and a solid enough place to stand, he could move the w...
NEIL GAIMAN The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of S...
OSCAR WILDE We simply needed more indicators for our assessment that price stability is threatened in the medium...
WIM DUISENBERG We have some resemblance of stability now, which is normal in conflicts like ours. And that's enough...
AJITH FERNANDO a great deal is still to be done before stability develops into national accord.
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV We are aware that in 2005 our efforts to preserve the stability and prestige of the Republic of Bulg...
GEORGI PURVANOV Obviously, I think at some point an organization has to look at the importance of stability. I don't...
LARRY ROTHSCHILD Achieving price stability is not only important in itself, it is also central to attaining the Feder...
BEN BERNANKE Why would I allow you to see me at my worst when you cannot handle me at my best
N. S. COLE This area is the breadbasket of West Africa. It's important that stability return.
BHEKI KHUMALO This area is the breadbasket of West Africa, ... It's important that stability return.
BHEKI KHUMALO Now, they must go for market-share stability, because the local telephone companies ... are coming i...
CHARLES DISANZA Iran poses the most serious long-term threat to regional stability.
EHUD BARAK When you're a team like ours that has to build, the one thing you need is stability. You need that w...
DOUG MELVIN We have to either have an ownership position in the show or some sense of long-term stability in lic...
DON OHLMEYER He just wants to be comfortable. He wants to be secure and find a place with some stability after wh...
DEANDRE SCOTT Hopefully we'll have a little stability back there. It kind of started on a tailspin here a little b...
DAVE BOITZ This issue, as far as I'm concerned, is resolved. Allegheny County has a base year. Stability is now...
DAN ONORATO It's a roll-on, roll-off ferry, and there is a big question mark over the stability of this kind of ...
DAVID OSLER It's a roll-on, roll-off ferry, and there is big question mark over the stability of this kind of sh...
DAVID OSLER The stability of the coaching staff is a big factor. We have everyone back and we?ve added a few guy...
DAVE WOOD We feel good about the grade's stability for the winter.
COLIN JONES Five coaches in six years, there's been no stability here. I've got a point guard who's had a differ...
COLEMAN BATES Our goal has always been to take Burger King public. We believe the transparency and stability in ow...
GREG BRENNEMAN The stability of the boat wasn't good. There was something wrong with that boat. It was oscillating ...
JAIKUMAR GEORGE Stability is somewhat returning as some of the uncertain factors are being cleared. Chances now look...
HIROYUKI FUKUNAGA That's at the high end of stability for a trough/ridge pattern. If you're in the mean trough positio...
IVORY SMALL We're going to see a period of real public stability, but there's going to be maneuvering behind the...
MARK PERRY We are most concerned about the stability of the structure itself. We want to make sure residents ar...
MARCIA CRAWLEY The more load you can go to bid with, the better position you can be in. It can provide stability, t...
MARK PURPLE Employment is a matter of great importance that concerns social stability, economic and social susta...
LI JIAN I was not going to go just anywhere. The stability of the program appealed to me. Dan is the dean of...
JEFF HORTON It comes down to the long-term stability of this corporation,
KLAUS KLEINFELD These are mechanisms that prevent lateral movement of the bridge. They lock together and provide sta...
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JOHANN VON GOETHE The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his fail...
JOHANN VON GOETHE The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
JOHANN VON GOETHE The right man is the one that seizes the moment.
JOHANN VON GOETHE No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a pr...
JOHANN VON GOETHE The unnatural, that too is natural.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always righ...
JOHANN VON GOETHE In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is ...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.
JOHANN VON GOETHE The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized worl...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable...
JOHANN VON GOETHE