Top 802 Quotes & Sayings by Austrian Authors - Page 11

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

The mind cannot foresee its own advance.

If the two largest economies in the world don't show us a good example on trade liberalization, then you can't expect the smaller and weaker economies to take the risks. The initiative, the momentum and the drive really do have to come from Japan and the U.S.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others.

If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.

I'd done drag since I was 14, for special occasions, and in 2010 a friend of mine with her own burlesque group was looking for a host. During a party I was just fooling around, taking the microphone, saying stupid, funny things, and she asked me afterward if I wanted to host her burlesque show every Saturday.

It is a must to believe in one's product.

The accounting of the sacrifice is, more than anything else, the attitude toward war memorials in our time.

On another level, I want to mention that I have a strong Jewish identity and - over the years - have been involved in several Jewish projects, such as the establishment of a strong program of Judaic Studies at the University of California in San Diego.

Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot be considered art at all.

First, to be able to love, then to learn that body and spirit are one.

I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art. Are there no artists who have done erotic pictures?

The gratification of helping others is a very American tradition and a Judeo-Christian tradition. Now it is great to see young people creating funds and giving back in all sorts of productive ways. It's a terrifically satisfying thing.

My psycho-analytic work has convinced me that when in the baby's mind the conflicts between love and hate arise, and the fears of losing the loved one become active, a very important step is made in development.

It does not do to use it with forms whose origin is intimately bound up with a specific material simply because no technical difficulties stand in the way.

I'm not that powerful to take out the masculinity of a beard.

In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state.

Color is a big part of what I do. It's like music. There are only so many notes in the scale, but there are endless permutations; there's no limit to the number. Color on the walls or furniture can reflect back and distort the reality of the true colors of lipsticks and eye shadow.

To be a Dumont actor was considered to be a great honor for an actor, yet it also had its disadvantages.

In football, there are no guarantees.

The combination of hatred and technology is the greatest danger threatening mankind.

Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.

We're very open and outspoken about our faith and our beliefs. We also talk about our doubts, our moments of insecurities. We talk about it all day, how we're inspired by God. We recognize little miracles every day, and that's how we're raising our daughter.

War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.

Although even when I am being idle I have plenty of food for thought both early and late - thoughts both about and not about art.

In Asia, democracy has been less advanced than elsewhere. And many of these countries haven't done too badly.

The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.

What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine.

I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view.

Because I select my players from a feeling that comes to me when I am with them, a certain sympathy you might call it, or a vibration that exists between us that convinces me they are right.

It is a great deal of difference to receive an honorary title or a title in his profession.

How can justice be attained when, in the expiation of an old wrong, another wrong is to be committed? No reasonable creature would conceive of the idea of obliterating ink stains with ink, or spots of oil with oil. Only blood must be washed out with blood.

We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization.

On my first days here I did not start work immediately but, as planned, I took it easy for a few days - flicked through books, studied Japanese art a little.

The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money.

Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Because you don't live near a bakery doesn't mean you have to go without cheesecake.

Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.

A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.

We have all examined our past critically and are very much aware of even the unpleasant things. Now, we need to look at what we plan to do with the lessons we have learned from the past.

The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude.

Only a person who has passed through the gate of humility can ascend to the heights of the spirit.

This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.

To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.

For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.

It's important to maintain an attractive smile as you age. A lighter, less beige, more white tooth color is key, but no Chiclets.

The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist.

I was called the greatest director in Europe, but I was just a hard worker.

However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II.

It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person.

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

When I recall today my early youth, I should take the boy that I then was, with the exception of a few individual features, for a different person, were it not for the existence of the chain of memories.

I don't know about you, but I find it exhilarating to see how vague psychological notions evaporate and give rise to a physical, mechanistic understanding of the mind, even if it's the mind of the fly.

Everyone is beatable, many things are possible in football. We have often seen this.

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.

Vienna is the gate to Eastern Europe.

It was a big pleasure to play a Grand Slam match on my birthday.

I can't talk about every single film I made. It's not my way to go back into the past and to look at my old pictures and to discuss them.

Two minutes later the right arm was pointing normally and the reaction to the left appeared. The patient made no complaint at all about the experiment.