Eulersche Quotes & Sayings

I long for some terrific disaster. Earthquake. Spectacular explosion. Her mother is messily but instantly and permanently eliminated, along with everybody else for miles around. — Vladimir Nabokov

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not. — Lawrence Blume

To him, art and craftmanship were usless unless they burned like the sun and had power of storms. — Hermann Hesse

Every day, on the roads of Delhi, some chauffeur is driving an empty car with a black suitcase sitting on the backseat. Inside that suitcase is a million, two million rupees; more money than that chauffeur will see in his lifetime. If he took the money he could go to America, Australia, anywhere, and start a new life. He could go inside the five-star hotels he has dreamed about all his life and only seen from the outside. He could take his family to Goa, to England. Yet he takes that black suitcase where his master wants. He puts it down where he is meant to, and never touches a rupee. Why?
Because Indians are the world's most honest people, like the prime minister's booklet will inform you? No. It's because 99.9 percent of us are caught in the Rooster Coop just like those poor guys in the poultry market. — Aravind Adiga

Overconfidence blurs out the risk. Inferiority magnifies it. — Toba Beta

If our opponent is to be made to comply with our will, we must place him in a situation which is more oppressive to him than the sacrifice which we demand; but the disadvantages of this position must naturally not be of a transitory nature, at least in appearance, otherwise the enemy, instead of yielding, will hold out, in the prospect of a change for the better. — Carl Von Clausewitz

The one thing that I would say that defines me is I love to learn. I get excited about new things. I buy more books than I read or finish. — Satya Nadella

There is little doubt that, until 1846 when he helped to engineer the resignation of Robert Peel, Disraeli was driven by an ambition to make his mark rather than by any consistent political purpose, and that his attacks on Peel would have not have been so mounted had he been given in 1841 the office for which he had asked. — Christopher Hibbert

The world is a more tragic and dangerous place when American isn't leading and, under this president, we have not been leading. — Carly Fiorina

If you don't listen, you're never gonna learn. — Frank Iero

To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea. — Swami Vivekananda