Karl Philipp Moritz quote: "Westminster Abbey, the Tower, a steeple, one church, and then another, presented themselves to our view; and we could now plainly distinguish the high round chimneys on the tops of the houses, which yet seemed to us to form an innumerable number of smaller spires, or steeples."

The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it...
KARL PHILIPP MORITZ

The short English miles are delightful for walking. You are always pleased to find, every now and th...
KARL PHILIPP MORITZ

A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way b...
KARL PHILIPP MORITZ

In London, before I set out, I had paid one shilling; another was now demanded, so that upon the who...
KARL PHILIPP MORITZ

The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of...
KARL PHILIPP MORITZ

Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, f...
KARL PHILIPP MORITZ

You see in the streets of London, great and little boys running about in long blue coats, which, lik...
KARL PHILIPP MORITZ

All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in g...
KARL PHILIPP MORITZ

I am very sorry to say that I rejoiced when I once more perceived the towers of Windsor behind me.
KARL PHILIPP MORITZ

My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended ...
KARL PHILIPP MORITZ

It is a common observation, that the more solicitous any people are about dress, the more effeminate...
KARL PHILIPP MORITZ

I had almost forgotten to tell you that I have already been to the Parliament House; and yet this is...
KARL PHILIPP MORITZ

St. Paul's arose like some huge mountain above the enormous mass of smaller buildings.
KARL PHILIPP MORITZ

Whilst in Prussia poets only speak of the love of country as one of the dearest of all human affecti...
KARL PHILIPP MORITZ

In the streets through which we passed, I must own the houses in general struck me as if they were d...
KARL PHILIPP MORITZ

I now resolved to go to bed early, with a firm purpose of also rising early the next day to revisit ...
KARL PHILIPP MORITZ

As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments o...
KARL PHILIPP MORITZ

My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband...
KARL PHILIPP MORITZ

On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.
KARL PHILIPP MORITZ

These funerals always appear to me the more indecent in a populous city, from the total indifference...
KARL PHILIPP MORITZ

Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.
MORITZ GUEDMANN

It's obviously unfair to paint with a broad brush here, but the germ of an idea for a breakthrou...
MICHAEL MORITZ

My undergraduate degree was in history, and I wish I had been smart enough to really excel at maths,...
MICHAEL MORITZ

History shows that there is no more potent engine for reform than the passion of voters who feel bet...
MICHAEL MORITZ

There's nothing more invigorating than being deeply involved with a small company and a young te...
MICHAEL MORITZ

I think overall it is better for businesses to stay private because you have more latitude, more fre...
MICHAEL MORITZ

All you need do is listen to very smart people and sift out the ideas that are unworthy or implausib...
MICHAEL MORITZ

We were in the gym five nights a week, Monday through Friday, 7 to 10 (p.m.) every night. Just runni...
ZACK MORITZ

I'd always been the big, awkward kid. Now, it's nice to kind of be the big man on campus.
ZACK MORITZ

An angry young man who sets out to kill a cop, or anybody else, ought to be locked up for the rest o...
DAN MORITZ

Your pain is our pain, your suffering is our suffering, ... Switzerland wants to see cause and respo...
MORITZ LEUENBERGER

I was a bit of a delinquent growing up, a very poor student - I nearly failed several grades before ...
PHILIPP MEYER

When I finish a book, I get extremely restless; I have to aggressively find ways to occupy myself; g...
PHILIPP MEYER

When you start to look at Native American history, you realize that, very far from being a peaceful,...
PHILIPP MEYER

I didn't fit the typical profile of a trader. I was an English major working on a novel at night...
PHILIPP MEYER

I didn't know much about Texas when I moved there for graduate school. In my first or second sem...
PHILIPP MEYER

Texas was mostly short-grass and tall-grass prairie when modern Europeans arrived here. It really wa...
PHILIPP MEYER

Life throws up enough road blocks to keep you from writing; you can't be adding to them yourself...
PHILIPP MEYER

We now have nearly 50 million users in Europe, a 25 per cent increase in just 12 months.
PHILIPP JUSTUS

When you hold things back, when you don't commit completely to your ideas and trust completely i...
PHILIPP MEYER

In essentials, unity; in differences, liberty; in all things, charity.
PHILIPP MELANCHTHON

Fundamentally, all art is about human beings. You're always showing larger moral questions throu...
PHILIPP MEYER

I like mechanical things; my first book was a mechanics guide - that was what my parents couldn'...
PHILIPP MEYER

When you look at 'Grapes of Wrath,' the weakest moments are those in which Steinbeck is spou...
PHILIPP MEYER

I'd grown up in a working class neighborhood in Baltimore, a place hard hit by the offshoring of...
PHILIPP MEYER

We had our chances but we couldn't convert them, that was our problem. The group is still wide open,...
PHILIPP LAHM

How are the Indians on cats?"
"I never saw one. Plenty of dogs, though."
"They eat the dog...
PHILIPP MEYER

The brave man, indeed, calls himself lord of the land, through his iron, through his blood.
ERNST MORITZ ARNDT

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.
ERNEST MORITZ ARNDT

Only those who feel little in the eyes of God, can hope to be mighty in the eyes of men.
ERNEST MORITZ ARNDT

The brave man, indeed, calls himself lord of the land, through his iron, through his blood. [Ger....
ERNST MORITZ ARNDT

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.
ERNST MORITZ ARNDT

Love makes of the wisest man a fool, and of the most foolish woman, a sage.
MORITZ J. SAPHIR

Where faith is in the plighted hand, where truth lives in each eye of blue, and every heart is staun...
ERNST MORITZ ARNDT

I started with great enthusiasm, but today I have to confess a certain frustration. Venice is a city...
MORITZ DE HADELN

Only a few days earlier he had explained to her that he did not merely read books but traveled with ...
JAN-PHILIPP SENDKER

Chemistry is the dirty part of physics.
JOHANN PHILIPP REIS

According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot...
CARL PHILIPP EMANUEL BACH

What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of...
CARL PHILIPP EMANUEL BACH

A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects t...
CARL PHILIPP EMANUEL BACH

I have assigned many of my father's basses to students, without endangering their lives. Also, they ...
CARL PHILIPP EMANUEL BACH

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet,...
KARL MARX

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its ...
KARL MARX

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its ...
KARL MARX

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real...
KARL MARX

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
KARL MARX

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, ...
KARL MARX

If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.
KARL MARX

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
KARL MARX

Democracy is the road to socialism.
KARL MARX

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
KARL MARX

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course crea...
KARL MARX

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
KARL MARX

There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.
KARL MARX

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from soc...
KARL MARX

Religion is the opium of the masses.
KARL MARX

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but...
KARL MARX

A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.
KARL MARX

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of gen...
KARL MARX

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
KARL MARX

Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
KARL MARX

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
KARL MARX

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of it...
KARL MARX

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
KARL MARX

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
KARL MARX

I've never understood the 'things to do before you die' idea. If I was ill, I'd be i...
KARL PILKINGTON

With evolution, things are always changing, so I sort of think: Should we all be growing three heads...
KARL PILKINGTON

At the end of the day, teachers aren't going to mess about trying to make me into an Einstein, &...
KARL PILKINGTON

It's not a joke: I really do like being at home.
KARL PILKINGTON

I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?
KARL PILKINGTON

I just sort of go along and say what I think -and that's all you can do in life, really.
KARL PILKINGTON

The other day I was thinking - because I get a lot of headaches - I was wondering whether the head s...
KARL PILKINGTON

We'll all die out eventually. Humans will be gone. And all I'm saying is, when people worry ...
KARL PILKINGTON

But I'm not an idiot. At the end of the day, I've learned a lot.
KARL PILKINGTON

For me, a good holiday is about value for money rather than things to see.
KARL PILKINGTON

Everyone is living for everyone else now. They're doing stuff so they can tell other people abou...
KARL PILKINGTON

Parrots have gone a bit quiet since pirates have gone.
KARL PILKINGTON

A slug is always on its own. It's a lonely insect.
KARL PILKINGTON

I sometimes wonder how we're short of cod. There's gonna be a load deep down that are hiding...
KARL PILKINGTON

People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.
KARL PILKINGTON

I've done some luxury flying, which is brilliant. It has only happened once or twice, but it was...
KARL PILKINGTON

People who live in glass houses... have to answer the door.
KARL PILKINGTON

It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.
KARL PILKINGTON

They say it all started out with a big bang. But, what I wonder is, was it a big bang or did it just...
KARL PILKINGTON

I'd rather live in a cave with a view of a palace than live in a palace with a view of a cave.
KARL PILKINGTON

The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time ne...
KARL MARX

Statistics is the grammar of science.
KARL PEARSON

I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come...
KARL LAGERFELD

But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and ...
KARL ROVE

You may be right that people say: 'You know what, we had Obama. He was inexperienced. The guy ha...
KARL ROVE

Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains.
KARL ROVE

The difficulty for Mr. Obama will be when the public sees where his decisions lead - higher inflatio...
KARL ROVE

Mr. Obama denounced the $2.3 trillion added to the national debt on Mr. Bush's watch as 'def...
KARL ROVE

In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Na...
KARL ROVE

For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiven...
KARL ROVE

Many Democrats have a pre-9/11 worldview.
KARL ROVE

Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the presi...
KARL ROVE

I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York ...
KARL ROVE

I believe in traditional marriage.
KARL ROVE

Mr. Obama plans to boost federal spending 25 percent while nearly tripling the national debt over 10...
KARL ROVE

And not only that, I also have the MacBook Air which is really cool. Even my wife is jealous of my M...
KARL ROVE

What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really 'empathy' and 'understanding.' He...
KARL ROVE

The Tea Party movement is a wide and diverse group. It will hurt the Republican Party if some elemen...
KARL ROVE

Alinsky's 1971 book, 'Rules for Radicals,' is a favorite of the Obamas. Michele Obama qu...
KARL ROVE

Memo to White House: Calling voters stupid is not a winning strategy.
KARL ROVE

Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savager...
KARL ROVE

I think it's dawning on some Democrats that obstructing the Patriot Act, like they've been o...
KARL ROVE

As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vo...
KARL ROVE

It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.
KARL ROVE

Grace can and does have a history.
KARL RAHNER

What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic m...
KARL RAHNER

Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God.
KARL RAHNER

The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.
KARL RAHNER

How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we shou...
KARL RAHNER

Thus in such a Labour Party there can be no question of independent policy.
KARL RADEK

The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism.
KARL RADEK

If a Labour movement, on a bourgeois basis, has hitherto existed in the country where the new moveme...
KARL RADEK

Every social organisation which is rooted in life still lasts a long time, even after the conditions...
KARL RADEK

Without Socialism the working class is a heterogeneous mixture of different categories, some of whic...
KARL RADEK

The enmity of such a party towards Socialism does not mean that the members are only prejudiced agai...
KARL RADEK

A Labour party is not a debating club, it is a party of action.
KARL RADEK

In general, if signs of sectarianism do appear in a Socialist Party, these are only the products of ...
KARL RADEK

Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the prov...
KARL POPPER

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom c...
KARL POPPER

Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
KARL POPPER

There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life....
KARL POPPER

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
KARL POPPER

The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal trut...
KARL PEARSON

I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of wr...
KARL MARLANTES

I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel i...
KARL MARLANTES

'The Odyssey' is the great tale, and I was really taken by 'The Iliad,' so I dig int...
KARL MARLANTES

Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well - you know, especia...
KARL MARLANTES

I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a mi...
KARL MARLANTES

I knew many Marines had done brave deeds that no one saw and for which they got no medals at all. I ...
KARL MARLANTES

In the military I could exercise the power of being automatically respected because of the medals on...
KARL MARLANTES

And I think that it's - the military has actually made improvements, so people are considering p...
KARL MARLANTES

I mean, if you're proud of what you've done when you've served in the military, well the...
KARL MARLANTES

I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thin...
KARL MARLANTES

The Marine Corps taught me how to kill, but it didn't teach me how to deal with killing.
KARL MARLANTES

When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about ...
KARL MARLANTES

I grew up in Oregon, where as a teenager I worked with my grandfather Axel on his i shing boat at th...
KARL MARLANTES

Vietnam was the first time that Americans of different races had to depend on each other. In the Sec...
KARL MARLANTES

We all want to be special, to stand out; there's nothing wrong with this. The irony is that ever...
KARL MARLANTES

War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.
KARL MARLANTES

It takes people a while to trust you.
KARL MALONE

I just think we want to stay healthy, and I don't think we think about a sense of urgency. We re...
KARL MALONE

I have many friends and family members who have served (or are currently serving) in our nation'...
KARL MALONE

To catch the ball, face up, look at all of my options and then pass. I was playing hot potato. I did...
KARL MALONE

All records are not made to be broken.
KARL MALONE

I just want to make a name for myself and get to the next level.
KARL MALONE

When I said I retired from basketball playing, I have retired. You will not see me play again. That ...
KARL MALONE

You're a professional. You don't need for me to break a film down for you. If you want to st...
KARL MALONE

You don't try to do more than you should.
KARL MALONE

I think we're a deeper team, a better team, we still have work to do... nothing is guaranteed, b...
KARL MALONE

You take the good with the bad and try not to listen to everything said about you because you know i...
KARL MALONE

Forget the technique. Hit the guy across from you. Don't let somebody come in your space.
KARL MALONE

I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do ...
KARL MALONE

I don't know what my label is. I just think of myself as a plain forward. I like to think I have...
KARL MALONE

Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the l...
KARL MALONE

I never felt I had the kind of relationship with Magic that I could just pick up the phone and call ...
KARL MALONE

You have injuries that bother you when you're not playing. When that horn blows, you don't f...
KARL MALONE

Everything I've been through, everything I'm about to go through in my career and my life, i...
KARL MALONE

You work for whatever you get in life.
KARL MALONE

Misery loves company. This is a Hollywood soap opera, and I'm not going to be a star in another ...
KARL MALONE

For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play w...
KARL MALONE

They changed the floor back to old school. They changed the uniform back to old school. Somebody tel...
KARL MALONE

I'll make the right decision, whichever one it is. I have to be 100 percent, not 95 or 99.
KARL MALONE

I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.
KARL MALONE

Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.
KARL MALONE

Sometimes, you follow your dreams. I say to the young people, 'If you have a dream, chase it....
KARL MALONE

My father was a milkman. So, I delivered milk.
KARL MALDEN

I'm a workaholic. I love every movie I've been in, even the bad ones, every TV series, every...
KARL MALDEN

Workers, comrades, and you, women of the people, let not this festival of May, the second during the...
KARL LIEBKNECHT

To the socialist no nation is free whose national existence is based upon the enslavement of another...
KARL LIEBKNECHT

This republic represents the greatest basis for that universal socialist order, the creation of whic...
KARL LIEBKNECHT

Just as invasion is the true and tried weapon in the hands of capital against the class struggle, so...
KARL LIEBKNECHT

International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights.
KARL LIEBKNECHT

In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.
KARL LIEBKNECHT

Yes, Socialists should defend their country in great historical crises.
KARL LIEBKNECHT

The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole wor...
KARL LIEBKNECHT

Westminster Abbey, the Tower, a steeple, one church, and then another, presented themselves to our view; and we could now plainly distinguish the high round chimneys on the tops of the houses, which yet seemed to us to form an innumerable number of smaller spires, or steeples.

Karl Philipp Moritz

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