A Quote by Adolf Loos

I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle. I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament.

Adolf Loos

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Emerged Freed Mankind Ornament Struggle Superfluous Thirty Thirty Years Victorious Years

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Adolf Loos
Austrian - Architect
December 10, 1870 - August 23, 1933

Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.

James D. Watson

A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.

Mark Twain

One hundred years of delay have passed since President Lincoln freed the slaves, yet their heirs, their grandsons, are not fully free. They are not yet freed from the bonds of injustice. They are not yet freed from social and economic oppression. And this nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.

John F. Kennedy

After Princess Diaries, I was labeled a good girl, and for the first eight years of my career I had to fight to get any other kind of role. But I like fighting for a job, actually. Once you get it, you feel like you've emerged victorious from the scrap and you're like, "OK, this one's mine. Did it. Done."

Anne Hathaway

...but I could not sleep without proper covering and spent the rest of the night rewriting lost arguments from my past, altering history so that I emerged victorious.

Patrick deWitt

Perhaps we are only forerunners. Twenty or even a hundred years may pass before the National Socialist idea is victorious; those who believe in the ideal today may die: but what is a man in the development of a people, of mankind.

Adolf Hitler

The conflict that exists today is no more than an old-style struggle for power, once again presented to mankind in semireligious trappings. The difference is that, this time, the development of atomic power has imbued the struggle with a ghostly character; for both parties know and admit that, should the quarrel deteriorate into actual war, mankind is doomed.

Albert Einstein

Moses freed the Jews. Lincoln freed the slaves. I freed the neurotics.

Larry Flynt

All great works of art are trophies of victorious struggle.

Julius Meier-Graefe

If you don't start your career until thirty, that still gives you thirty-five years to make it professionally. If you can't make it in thirty-five years, you weren't going to make it in forty or forty-five.

Charles Murray

Every day sees humanity more victorious in the struggle with space and time.

Guglielmo Marconi

I've been making music for thirty-six years and, you know, I'm still just as in love with working on music now as I was thirty-six years ago.

Moby

The body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine.

Aristotle

So there are five ways of knowing who will win. Those who know when to fight and when not to fight are victorious. Those who discern when to use many or few troops are victorious. Those whose upper and lower ranks have the same desire are victorious.

Sun Tzu

The Arts and Sciences, essential to the prosperity of the State and to the ornament of human life, have a primary claim to the encouragement of every lover of his country and mankind.