Krafft Quotes & Sayings

I play by my own rules so please think twice before you step into my life. — Rihanna

One of the most thoughtless statements, parroted ad nauseam ever since rational concern for our environment exploded into an emotional syndrome, calls Man the only animal that soils its own nest. Every animal soils its nest with the products of its metabolism if unable to move away. Space technology gives us for the first time the freedom to leave our nest, at least for certain functions, in order not to soil it. — Krafft Arnold Ehricke

He soon recognized the fact that the stimulus proceeded from the idea to be in the power of a woman rather than from the act of violence itself. — Richard Von Krafft-Ebing

The economic function of space industrialization is to generate jobs on Earth, not in space. — Krafft Arnold Ehricke

All our hope rests upon the possibility of a change of the laws which concern it, so that only rape or the comission of public offence, when this can be proved at the same time, shall be punishable. — Richard Von Krafft-Ebing

One cringes to hear scientists cooing over the universe or any part thereof like schoolgirls over-heated by their first crush. From the studies of Krafft-Ebbing onward, we know that it is possible to become excited about anything - from shins to shoehorns. But it would be nice if just one of these gushing eggheads would step back and, as a concession to objectivity, speak the truth: THERE IS NOTHING INNATELY IMPRESSIVE ABOUT THE UNIVERSE OR ANYTHING IN IT. — Thomas Ligotti

Potential was a red herring to plot a life of wandering curiosity. — Nicholas Dawidoff

Man's mind and spirit grow with the space in which they are allowed to operate. — Krafft Arnold Ehricke

Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and grow up slaves. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's very nice to feel. You're nothing. You're just nothing when you're near a volcano. — Katia And Maurice Krafft

If God wanted man to become a spacefaring species, he would have given man a moon. — Krafft Arnold Ehricke

Purely sensual love is never true or lasting, for which reason first love is, as a rule, but a passing infatuation, a fleeting passion. - Richard Von Krafft — Richard Von Krafft-Ebing

The spirits of Havelock Ellis, Magnus Hirschfeld and Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebbing waft through the text to lend 'The Third Sex' an air of scientific authority. — Stacey D'Erasmo

Nature has made a mistake in the choice of my sexuality and I must do a life-long penance for it, for the moral power to suffer the unavoidable with dignity is lost. — Richard Von Krafft-Ebing

He seems in these verses to capture something of the nature of pilgrimage - the precise directions to somewhere often awkward to find; and you're not sure quite why you came or what it was you're looking for. If you find it, or it finds you, words cannot easily convey what has happened but it becomes part of the journey that continues." (Daily Celtic Prayer book) — Richard Foster

I have fooled life and life has fooled me. We are quits. I say good-bye. Think sometimes in the hour of happiness of your poor, comical fool who loved you truly and so well. — Richard Von Krafft-Ebing

Developing concern for others, thinking of them as part of us, brings self-confidence , reduces our sense of suspicion and mistrust, and enables us to develop a calm mind. — Dalai Lama

I have seen so many eruptions in the last 20 years that I don't care if I die tomorrow. — Katia And Maurice Krafft

The thought of a comedy with paid prostitutes always seemed so silly and purposeless, for a person hired by me could never take the place of my imagination of a 'cruel mistress'. — Richard Von Krafft-Ebing

There are men who have themselves whipped simply to increase their sexual pleasure. These, in contrast with true masochists, regard flagellation as a means to an end. — Richard Von Krafft-Ebing

For all the civilians saved thanks to the presence of peacekeepers, there have been those who were lost - the United Nations personnel who sacrificed their lives for a noble cause. Even as we mourn our fallen colleagues, we are all uplifted by their unflinching commitment and are inspired to strive even harder for the collective cause so eloquently envisaged in the United Nations Charter: a world free from the scourge of war. — Jan Eliasson

I have also fantasised myself to be his female slave, but this does not suffice, for after all every woman can be the slave of her husband. — Richard Von Krafft-Ebing

There was a lot of protest after Bravo, from countries like India, for example. India was the first country which came forward and proposed at the United Nations that all of these nuclear tests should be stopped, that there should be a complete ban on nuclear testing. — Martha Smith

How deep congenital sex-inversion roots may be gathered from the fact that the pleasure-dream of the male Urning has to do with male persons, and of the female with females. — Richard Von Krafft-Ebing

His IQ measured the same as his height in inches. He was a short man. — Terry Perrel

As soon as a roast is announced, I get everybody - family, friends, waitresses, cab drivers - giving me jokes about the person getting roasted. I'm the mouthpiece for the masses. — Jeff Ross

Man, the cutting edge of terrestrial life, has no rational alternative but to expand the environmental and resource base beyond earth. — Krafft Arnold Ehricke

A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered. — Lee Strasberg

Writing gives legitimacy to daydreams! — Tyan Wyss

My mirror image always had to be interpreted. And for that I sought my reflection in someone else's eyes. — Alix Kates Shulman

At around 50 employees, you get to the point where you can't see what's going on all the time. So you start to have weekly check-ins, and you have days that go by without knowing exactly what's going on. — Jon Oringer

All my joys resemble more a momentary intoxication than the real gold of happiness. It was all but an illusion. — Richard Von Krafft-Ebing

While civilization is more than a high material living standard it is nevertheless based on material abundance. It does not thrive on abject poverty or in an atmosphere of resignation and hopelessness. Therefore, the end objectives of solar system exploration are social objectives, in the sense that they relate to or are dictated by present and future human needs. — Krafft Arnold Ehricke