Erzherzog Rainer Quotes & Sayings

We no longer want to be a melting pot, because we don't understand what is already melted. — Wynton Marsalis

Luxury and excessive refinement are sure forerunners of the decadence of states, because when all individuals seek their own interests they neglect the public weal. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor. — Lord Byron

Interest did not naturally belong to such anecdotes. For the most part, only Chloe and I appreciated them, because of the subsidiary associations we attached to them. Yet these leitmotifs were important because they gave us the feeling that we were far from strangers to one another, that we had lived through things together, and remembered the joint meanings we had derived from them. However slight these leitmotifs were, they acted like cement. The language of intimacy they helped to create was a reminder that (without clearing our way through jungles, slaying dragons, or even sharing apartments) Chloe and I had created something of a world together. — Alain De Botton

Kuan Yin Speaks on The Law of the Spiritualization (Transformation) of Matter: "The earth is trying to teach humans that everything is spirit ... Being human is an opportunity to bring spirit into all that is material ... The quality and intensity of resonance emanated from a given point is thus attracted back. When one brings spirit into the human realm, it can spiritualize matter. Matter can then become lighter, (indeed liberated), not as dense as before."-Kuan Yin — Hope Bradford

A mind ill with negative attitudes is more dangerous than a sick body, for its sickness is always contagious. — Napoleon Hill

In relationship to God one can not involve himself to a certain degree. God is precisely the contradiction to all that is 'to a certain degree'. — Soren Kierkegaard

The cool wind blew around us. The ocean made a complaining sound, the ocean that complains and doesn't know why. The ocean washed woefully up onto the shore. My thoughts are an ocean, they wash woefully up against their limits.
A new age would dawn, we could still do great things. I did my best to believe it, my very, very best. — Nescio

Trust, but verify. Remember it when delegating. You have to do both. — Derek Sivers

I love the Hunger Games books. Certainly, the fans are there. They're grown enormously since the beginning. When I first brought the books to Lionsgate, they had sold about 150,000 copies, which is a very good result for a YA book. And to their credit, Lionsgate was very excited and committed to the movie, from the beginning. — Nina Jacobson

Life is so full of meaning and of purpose, so full of beauty - beneath its covering - that you will find that earth but cloaks your heaven. Courage, then to claim it: that is all! — Giovanni Giocondo

I would say the most help I got was from my dad. My dad is a civil engineer in Switzerland; he's 90 years old now, so he's no longer active as a civil engineer, but still a very active person. — Claude Nicollier

in 1620 Kepler's mother was being tried for witchcraft. — James A. Connor

I write to express and I shop to destress — Anamika Mishra