Bernstorff Quotes & Sayings

It is in this way that I went forth to teach. — Gautama Buddha

The Indian Railways will become the growth engine of the nation's 'Vikas Yatra'. — Narendra Modi

I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine. — William Shakespeare

Waiting means going about our assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and the conclusions. — Eugene H. Peterson

An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie. — Mason Cooley

Small children smoking, and the mother is not aware that it is because the breast has been taken away. In all primitive communities a seven-year-old child, or even an eight or nine-year-old child, will continue breast-feeding. Then there is a satisfaction and smoking will not be so necessary. That's why in primitive communities men are not so much interested in women's breasts; there is no problem that somebody will attack them. Nobody looks at the breasts. — Rajneesh

When an argument is over, how many weighty reasons does a man recollect which his heat and violence made him utterly forget? — Eustace Budgell

One king, one law, one faith. — Louis XVI Of France

[In science any model depends on a pre-chosen taxonomy] a set of classifications into which we divide the enormous complexity of the real world ... Land, labor, and capital are extremely heterogeneous aggregates, not much better than earth, air, fire, and water. — Kenneth E. Boulding

Of how much light will my destiny's eyes have to become aware until it will come true in death? — Sorin Cerin

Wilson was outraged but chose not to see the declaration itself as sufficient justification for war. What he did not yet know was that there was a second, very secret message appended to the telegram Bernstorff had received and that both telegrams had been intercepted and relayed to Blinker Hall's intelligence division in the Old Admiralty Building in London, which by now oversaw a second, and singularly sensitive, component of Room 40's operations - the interception of diplomatic communications, both German and, incidentally, American. — Erik Larson

I pointed at Ascanio. Not another word. Latin is a dead language, but that doesn't mean you get to molest its corpse. Finish sweeping, ianitor. — Ilona Andrews

Mr. Hitchcock did not say actors are cattle. He said they should be treated like cattle. — James Stewart

I, like everybody else, have a certain fear of heights, and I have to be very careful when I am in the clouds, but it is also what I love; it is my domain, so when you love something, you don't have fear. — Philippe Petit

Life is a green madness just now, trying to squeeze the last bit of warmth from the season. — Vernor Vinge