Top 802 Quotes & Sayings by Austrian Authors - Page 12

As a general rule, biology tends to be conservative. It's rare that evolution 'invents' the same process several times.

When you're young, you're fearless and more creative, more of an outsider.

In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.

A lot of times I have fans asking for pictures and they say 'smile,' but I can't. It's not because I'm a mean person or don't want to be in the picture but I just can't do it when you say 'go, smile.'

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

For the moment, the snow is quite wet and soft. If it was hard or icy, it would be a perfect downhill for my style, because I could fight even harder.

One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others.

My different personalities leave me in peace now.

Man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.

I think my family needs me more than anybody else, and tennis doesn't need me anymore. I respect my wife a lot for taking all that in. She said, 'I didn't marry a tennis player; you'd retired.' Now it's time to do something else.

I think it's obviously no secret that my buddy is Franck Ribery.

I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.

In running, I know that I can train as much as I want and I'm never going to break the world record for the five miles. It's partly genetics; I'm just not built for it. But if I worked really hard, I might be able to cut my time by half. Could I do the same thing with my mind and my well-being?

Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned, hence something given truly as a present.

You can be very independent, but admit to wanting somebody close to you and that's what me and my wife have. We don't need each other but we want to be with each other and I think it's important to educate the kids with that.

I hate being famous. You have no freedom. You can't do anything.

The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.

The question I wanted to answer was, could I train my mind to be happy the same way one trains one's body?

To work a vineyard, you need a lot of guts to do that. To go out there and work all year, you almost feel that these people talk to the grapes. Wine is a lifestyle, and you can talk about it for ages. It's a passion, but it's not something I can do on a daily basis.

You know, I never really thought of myself as a 'celebrity.' One of the titles that I like least is 'celebrity chef.'

Signs of fatigue soon manifested themselves more and more strongly, and slowly the men dropped out one by one, from sheer exhaustion. No murmur of complaint, however, would be heard.

We now fly with an airbus, which has 210 seats, six times the week to Palma to the spider of the air Berlin.

Everything is created to be annihilated.

If we wish to substitute for war the settlement of disputes by justice, we must first substitute for the condition of international anarchy a condition of international order.

The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest.

But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world.

What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands.

The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life.

The Democrats have nothing to cheer but fear itself.

I do not welcome advice from actors; they are here to act.

I didn't think that personal style had much value in graphic design.

We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.

You cannot make a social-conscious picture in which you say that the intermediary between the hand and the brain is the heart. I mean, that's a fairy tale - definitely.

A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.

If I was a normal player at West Ham and wanted to join a Chinese club, nobody would have said anything. But since I was a leader at West Ham and thought about that offer, I was suddenly a bad man.

One gets into a strange psychological, almost hypnotic, state of mind while on the firing line which probably prevents the mind's eye from observing and noticing things in a normal way.

There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.

Integration is a give and take.

The interest of my mother was more in the entertainment field. She loved to go to concerts and to the theatre.

Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.

I wanted to be of service to the Peace League, and how could I better do so than by trying to write a book which should propagate its ideas? And I could do it most effectively, I thought, in the form of a story.

Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called attributes.

The new history is really ancient history newly discovered. Journalists are taking crash courses in the blood-drenched background of Serbs, Croats, Bosnians, North Ossetians, Armenians and Azerbaijanis.

It is very kind of you to consider the possibility of my working in Pasadena, an idea which certainly is attractive, especially since it would hold out the prospect of your cooperation or advice.

I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence.

It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

Everything is dead while it lives.

If something is good, it doesn't go out of style every six months. The fashion wheel of today doesn't have to go as quickly as it was pushed in the 80's.

Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself.

I am so rich that I must give myself away.

The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.

What impressed me particularly in Vienna was the strict order everywhere. No mob disturbances of any kind, in spite of the greatly increased liberty and relaxation of police regulations.

You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend.

Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.

A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?

I like folk songs, but ten horses couldn't bring me to a concert or an opera.

Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.