Top 802 Quotes & Sayings by Austrian Authors - Page 10

Look at ISIS - without the Internet, they wouldn't exist in the same form. The Internet didn't create them, but the Internet facilitates them. And as we know from history, the facilitation is more dangerous than the cause, because the cause can be dealt with, but the facilitation is elusive.

Fate determines many things, no matter how we struggle.

The investigations also proved that there were many cases of spontaneous deviation, i.e. cases where there had been no stimulation of the semi-circular canal apparatus.

The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture.

The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

The near stillness recalls what is forgotten, extinct angels.

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

I want to be successful with the national team and Bayern.

The villain is usually the most interesting part. But it has to be a smart thing. Just dumb cliche villains with a Russian accent and big muscles and a mean face, I don't know. My Russian accent isn't that great, and the muscles aren't that big and the mean face is not enough. You know what I mean? It gets very boring. Tedious stuff.

I'm happy to belong to this group of top champions having excelled here.

In Hungary acting is a profession. In America it is a decision.

It is obvious, moreover, that the formation of price in capitalist society must differ from the formation of price in social conditions based upon the simple production of commodities.

A President doesn't have a terribly long time to talk to people who are not really on the agenda.

Being a teenager in a small Austrian village was not fabulous. I tried to fit in and changed myself to be part of the game. I now realise I can create the game.

Ships are like children: they need individual attention.

You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them.

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

I've reached most my goals and when my career is over I will have many other things to do.

Good design should be honest.

The instinct of self-preservation in human society, acting almost subconsciously, as do all drives in the human mind, is rebelling against the constantly refined methods of annihilation and against the destruction of humanity.

When certain branches of the economy become obsolete, as in the case of the steel industry, not only do jobs disappear, which is obviously a terrible social hardship, but certain cultures also disappear.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.

I stopped acting when I was 19. The only time I acted again was during the war, when there were no other Nazis available.

I have been a Professor Emeritus since 1958, and have continued my scientific studies.

The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.

I listened more than I studied... therefore little by little my knowledge and ability were developed.

The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind.

Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public.

Directing her was like directing Lassie. You need 14 takes to get each one of them right.

Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.

When I finish a film, I want to forget it. I never like to repeat myself. Maybe, when I am dead, they will find certain consistencies in the style of my films, but I never want one film to look like another.

From Vienna with Love' will build a bridge across the globe from Vienna to Sydney, full of music, love and fun. I am really looking forward to performing with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and fabulous guest artists who all have ties to Vienna and telling a story with music that inspired me and songs from my debut album.

I'm always challenging myself, looking forward I'm not afraid of anything.

Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most cases, a resort to weapons in defense of a reputation.

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.

Expectations are dangerous. I recommend not having any, if only to avoid disappointment.

Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.

There are brands out there in the world that have an incredible influence on the culture. Numerous ones are badly done.

I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.

Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.

My goal is to get my name known in the Premier League. I want to put my footsteps in the snow.

The most dangerous thing for a branded product is low interest.

Journalists are in the same madly rocking boat as diplomats and statesmen. Like them, when the Cold War ended, they looked for a new world order and found a new world disorder. If making and conducting foreign policy in today's turbulent environment is difficult, so is practicing journalism.

Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs.

Today's policies and political activity treat people like pawns. More than ever before, attempts will be made to use people like cogs in a wheel. People will be handled like puppets on a string, and everyone will think that this reflects the greatest progress imaginable.

The President would usually talk to me about matters relating to the immigration problem.

God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.

The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.

After tea it's back to painting - a large poplar at dusk with a gathering storm. From time to time instead of this evening painting session I go bowling in one of the neighbouring villages, but not very often.

If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed.

If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.

'I don't need brains,' says the billionaire contemptuously. 'I'm brainy enough myself!' The broker cries out in desperation, 'What, in heaven's name, do you want?' 'Goodness,' is the answer.

See it all. See it fairly. Be truthful, be sensible and be careful with language. When nothing depends on man, everything depends on him.

Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.

To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.

I know that in football everything can go very quickly.

You're always being cast for what you've been in last.

Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little.