Musikverein Austria Quotes & Sayings

A private enterprise system needs some measuring rod, it needs something, it needs money to make its transactions. You can't run a big complicated system through barter, through converting one commodity into another. You need a monetary system to operate. And the instability in that monetary system is devastating to the performance of the economy. — Milton Friedman

What actresses do today when they appear on the screen is what they did once upon a time for getting to appear on the screen. — George Burns

I was shocked into the realization that I myself had played an unwitting role as a movie star and sex symbol in perpetrating the stereotypes that affected women all over the world. — Jane Fonda

As no scripture is of private interpretation, so is there no feeling in a human heart which exists in that heart alone - which is not, in some form or degree, in every human heart ... — George MacDonald

If God did not intend the cat to live happily with humankind, why is there a meow in the middle of the word 'hoMEOWner'? — Leonore Fleischer

My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth? — Alexander Pushkin

I wish you were a mind-reader. I want you to know everything but I don't want to have to tell you. Because there are some things I don't want to say out loud. — Lisa Kleypas

Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity is possibly the most ignoble ... [It] is an incapacity, a crippling emotional disease that severely distorts our perception of reality ... a narcotic that leaves its addicts wasted and derelict. — Eugene H. Peterson

Writers can feel pretty powerless in the big corporate world of publishing, but sometimes our greatest power is the ability to say 'no.' — Carrie Vaughn

Every house I've ever robbed, every establishment, it's the same story - you identify the first line of defense and take it away. That's how you get control. — Annika Martin

Like electricity running through her body or the thick velvet of magic making everything tingle; she was hot and cold and shivering from both, her sense in total overload.
- City of Ghosts — Stacia Kane

Zane's good hand flashed out and smacked Ty upside the back of the
head.
"Ow! What the hell?" Ty cried as he rubbed his head and huffed.
"You're lucky I repress the Instakill for you," he muttered. — Madeleine Urban