Top 802 Quotes & Sayings by Austrian Authors

A healthy social life is found only when, in the mirror of each soul, the whole community finds its reflection, and when, in the whole community, the virtue of each one is living.

I'm not perfect, I just do what I think is right. So if I can't fulfil people's expectations, I'm sorry, but it's not my fault.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

The European Union is not only a great idea, but it's also an idea we must keep working on.

I'm surprised some people don't like me! I think I have a good heart, so they should like me!

Jurgen has a very proactive way to play, he set marks in Germany with his kind of football and that really influenced my style.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

I think football is a game where people come together and football should bring everybody together, whether it is religion or skin colour or where you come from. We should be happy to enjoy that moment together, those 90 minutes where we can show love. Because I think football is love - and when love is not there, for what should we play?

No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.

Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.

The limits of my language means the limits of my world.

Well, you need the villain. If you don't have a villain, the good guy can stay home.

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more.

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors - it's how you combine them that sets you apart.

Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.

Humility is a super-important factor in all of our lives, and I try to remind myself every evening in front of the mirror, 'Just calm down.'

Patience is a virtue in life, of course, but it's not something we F1 people have too much of.

The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

As the time goes by, you change, your learn new things, your attitude is different. For the moment, I'm still enjoying ski racing so much that it would be difficult for me to think about ending my career.

You can't be silent and create silence in being silent. So you have to create silence or, rather, the effect of silence, through words.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

If you always experience new and better things than before, then you don't get tired at all.

'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

War... is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

Sometimes in the black culture, being raised as an independent woman is misconstrued as someone who doesn't need a man. I think that's wrong. I think we all need someone.

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be.

Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Physics is experience, arranged in economical order.

To be stupid and selfish and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness. Though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.

Today I start a diary; it is against my usual habbits, but out of a clearly felt need.

One of the most important things about looking youthful is to have a modern haircut.

For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

If you really have your own identity you'll keep on doing what you think is really right for you, and you'll also understand the next step you want to take.

When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process.

I am just old-fashioned enough to prefer long hair.

At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth.

For me, cinema is a vice. I love it intimately.

Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.

Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.

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

The interpretation of facts in a certain way stimulates other scientists' thoughts.

All art is erotic.

We believe it is important to have an organisational link in London, still the world's premier maritime centre.

Value manifests itself as exchange value, as a quantitatively determined relationship, in virtue of the fact that one commodity can be exchanged for another.

During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

What counts isn't the frame, it's what you put in it.

I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.

I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it.

After the verb 'to Love', 'to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world.

The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.

No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.