Top 823 Quotes & Sayings by Swiss Authors - Page 6

As a driver, you always want to be in the car getting as much experience as possible; especially when there's something new like different tyres.

To have a film in America means precisely nothing if you don't have a distributor who stands behind it.

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite.

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

I find it very beautiful to work in different countries because I see the mentality differences there. It is so rich, one always carries forward something.

Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.

The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.

The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages.

Rather big part of my time is to read scientific journals and to discover what others are doing.

Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

I have never participated directly or indirectly in any business related to the United Nations.

Fasting is, first and foremost, an exercise for identifying and managing adversity in all its forms. With faith, in full conscience, fasting calls women and men to an extra degree of self-awareness.

I'm very curious.

I wear the same black suit. I have five of them. I pair them with a red scarf. I was wearing a red scarf when I won the first architectural competition of my career.

Everyone comes to live in New York because they want to achieve something, and for that reason, there's this energy in the city that is just electrifying and inspiring.

Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.

No government, no head of state, made any attempt to avert or arrest the Boer War.

Jesus Christ is the beginning, the middle, and the end of all. In the Gospels he walks in human form upon the earth, and accomplishes the work of redemption.

It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended.

Hard work pays off if you stay true to yourself and dedicated.

I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad.

Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.

Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.

Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.

I soon became convinced... that all the theorizing would be empty brain exercise and therefore a waste of time unless one first ascertained what the population of the universe really consists of.

A house is a machine for living in.

Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future.

With the assistance of electrical conductivity, we were able to trace by measurements the process of intercalation in a large number of cases and, consequently, to establish experimental foundations for the evaluation of the formation of such intercalation compounds.

You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat.

When we design for non-Latin, we always aim to create a rhythm and texture that is sympathetic so when you have the two scripts running side by side, they create, ideally, the same tonal value on the page.

I get bored with unintelligent scripts. When I read the first page and I can tell what is going to happen, I know I don't want to make the film. It's two months work and I would get deeply bored. I would even prefer to do something that didn't work at the box-office, so long as it kept my interest alive.

If I look at history, it seems that most wars and most cruel things have been done by men and not by women.

The biggest challenge is that when people look at low price point products, they essentially invest less money in development, innovation, and new technology. And in order to innovate at a lower price point, and make sustainability attainable to the masses, you have to invest more. But that's counterintuitive for a lot of businesses.

Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want - the want of money.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Racism is if there are spectators or, outside the field of play, there are movements to discrimination, but, on the field of play, I deny that there is racism.

Before 2000, everything was about being contextual, and buildings were supposed to be good citizens.

If many things in the past have gone wrong in the lives of men and in the lives of their communities, it is because both small- and large-scale activities were blundered into without any thought or vision of universal planning.

Singapore is a pretty fantastic place, and the race is always a challenge.

Astronautics, strictly speaking, will be concerned with voyages to other stars. Remarkably enough, to achieve such feats, we might not even have to leave the earth. It would suffice to accelerate the sun itself to a very high speed and let it drag all its planets with it.

So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right.

As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions.

When I go to a country, I go to flea markets, antique stores. I am always looking for something.

That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.

I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of my sentimentality.

Even in war, everyone deserves to be treated humanely.

I don't have a death wish. On the contrary, I'm hanging onto my life like never before.

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

When you start to get shareholders, clients, employees, rating agencies, and everybody converging, and then your competitors bad-mouth you, you know you did the right thing.

The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered.

Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.

I became almost immediately fascinated by the possibilities of trying out all conceivable reactions with them, some leading to explosions, others to unbearable poisoning of the air in our house, frightening my parents.

The new generation of researchers must be given the skills and values - not just scientific ideals, but also awareness of human weaknesses - that will enable it to correct its forebears' mistakes.

People put limitations on their creativity, believing they have to rely on what they know and what they have done.

The argument that a serif font is too fussy doesn't cut it anymore. You want a font where the letter forms are not ambiguous.