Hohenstaufen Quotes & Sayings

Wealth today has been created by a world view dominated by fast-moving networks, open information, bottom-up entrepreneurialism. — Jacqueline Novogratz

It is possible that people need to believe they are unmanaged if they are to be managed effectively. — John Kenneth Galbraith

The only thing I care about is winning. That's all. If you don't want to win, you don't want to be around me. — Jerry West

Culturally, however, Sicily had great advantages. Muslim, Byzantine, Italian, and German civilization met and mingled there as nowhere else. Greek and Arabic were still living languages in Sicily. Frederick learnt to speak six languages fluently, and in all six he was witty. He was at home in Arabian philosophy, and had friendly relations with Mohammedans, which scandalized pious Christians. He was a Hohenstaufen, and in Germany could count as a German. But in culture and sentiment he was Italian, with a tincture of Byzantine and Arab. His contemporaries gazed upon him with astonishment gradually turning into horror; they called him 'wonder of the world and marvellous innovator'. — Bertrand Russell

Truth, beaten down, may well rise again. But there's a reason it gets beaten down. Usually we don't like it very much. — Jack McDevitt

I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health. — John Forbes Nash Jr.

The Hohenstaufen army besieged the Bavarian rebels in the town and fortress of Weinsberg; there, says an old tradition, the rival cries "Hi Welf!" and "Hi Weibling!" established the names of the warring groups; and there (says a pretty legend), when the victorious Swabians accepted the surrender of the town on the understanding that the women alone were to be spared, and were to be allowed to depart with whatever they could carry, the sturdy housewives marched forth with their husbands on their backs. — Will Durant

You make it happen by convincing everyone it's happening, belief in the first instance being a vaporous construct of duplicity, puff, evasion, cant, and bald-faced lies. — Ben Fountain

Did we ... ?" I cocked my head to the side as I scanned my memory. It would be impossible to forget someone like Lily. the feel of her skin would not leave my thoughts that easily.
"No!" She sounded insulted that I would even think that we had slept together. It was kind of cute. Someone with her innocent demeanor shouldn't be flirting with a man like me. — Teresa Mummert

In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup. — Bruce Lee

There's no doubt that after you eat a lot of garlic, you just kind of feel like you are floating, you feel ultra-confident, you feel capable of going out and whipping your weight in wild cats. — Les Blank

If you are a terror to many, then beware of many. — Decimius Magnus Ausonius

very rarely does change come in the form you imagined it would. When you're in the cocoon you never know what kind of butterfly is gonna come flying out. — Ron Perlman

The ruler is the first servant of the state. He is paid well so that he can maintain the dignity of his office. But he is required in return to work effectively for the well-being of the state. — Frederick II Of Hohenstaufen

Time produces quality product — Sunday Adelaja

Bold simplicity is the keynote to good design. — Sailor Jerry

If you don't have humour, then you may as well nail the coffin lid down now. — Roger Moore