A.R. Von Quotes
We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.
What counts alone is the innovator, the dissenter, the harbinger of things unheard of, the man who rejects the traditional standards and aims at substituting new values and ideas for old ones.
The truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody...It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.
When I became vegan I thought I would have to deprive myself of certain sweets that I loved so much, like caramel and peanut butter cups, but on the contrary!
The bloody solution of the crisis, the effort for the destruction of the enemy's forces, is the first-born son of war.
So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!
Every restriction of trade creates vested interests that are from then on opposed to its removal.
The more fodder, the more flesh; the more flesh, the more manure; the more manure, the more grain.
The causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.
All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.
Black is real sensation, even if it is produced by entire absence of light. The sensation of black is distinctly different from the lack of all sensations.
Some people spend the day in complaining of a headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.
We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out discretion, and so disappears the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others.
I don't stand behind the camera drooling. Knowing that, the models are more likely to open up and relax.
And who am I? That's one secret I'll never tell...You know you love me. XOXO, Gossip Girl
Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.
Nowhere has democracy ever worked well without a great measure of local self-government, providing a school of political training for the people at large as much as for their future leaders.
It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.
There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it.
If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much
Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien.
Music, in the best sense, does not require novelty; nay, the older it is, and the more we are accustomed to it, the greater its effect.
Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart.
The most dangerous of our impulses reign in ourselves against ourselves. To dissolve them is a creative act.
Stones are mute teachers; they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate.
If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
Those who have no hope for a future life are already dead for the present one.
Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given; The dearest child of Faith is Miracle.
The finished product is not finished when the actor is. The work is completed by a pair of shears.
In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the human race.
If you want to reach the infinite, then explore every aspect of the finite.
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.
This policy cannot succeed through speeches, and shooting-matches, and songs; it can only be carried out through blood and iron.
You can have economic freedom without political freedom, but you cannot have political freedom without economic freedom.
To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome.
In praising or loving a child, we love and praise not that which is, but that which we hope for.
Hold your powers together for something good and let everything go that is for you without result and is not suited to you.
We should treat children as God does us, who makes us happiest when He leaves us under the influence of innocent delusions.
