Top 802 Quotes & Sayings by Austrian Authors - Page 14
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I am glad that I do not have any children.
My close-up was magnificent!
A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.
Doing the right thing is a decision, which in many cases means you stand alone.
When you meet someone, ask about what hobby they have, not what they do. People always ask me about cooking, but I prefer to talk about tennis or boxing.
Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.
The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy.
I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.
The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.
We started at once to dig our trenches, half of my platoon stepping forward abreast, the men being placed an arm's length apart. After laying their rifles down, barrels pointing to the enemy, a line was drawn behind the row of rifles and parallel to it.
It was one of the great chances in my life to become a Dumont actor.
You can get an idea of human nature only when you can see the relationship of the individual human being to the whole cosmos.
I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.
I think the history and the past we have is just an energy we've built up to do what we do now.
My commitment to a humane and peaceful world continues to this day.
As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.
If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
Every opposition needs to be played in a different way and the formation depends on the opposition's strengths.
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.