A.R. Von Quotes

Nothing is so often irretrievably missed as a daily opportunity.

Everybody in the world ought to be sorry for everybody else. We all have our little private hell.

Renown is a source of toil and sorrow obscurity is a source of happiness.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm in the real world all rests on perseverance.

I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution.

Treat people as if they were what they should be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.

We must prepare and study truth under every aspect endeavoring to ignore nothing if we do not wish to fall into the abyss of the unknown when the hour shall strike.

In war more than anywhere else in the world things happen differently from what we had expected and look differently when near from what they did at a distance.

What the reason of the ant laboriously drags into a heap the wind of accident will collect in one breath.

Everybody undertakes what he sees another successful in whether he has the aptitude for it or not.

Man is not born to solve the problems of the universe but to find out what he has to do ... within the limits of his comprehension.

Life is a risk.

Our safety is not in blindness but in facing our danger.

Emulation is a noble and just passion full of appreciation.

The king reigns but does not govern.

Basic research is when I'm doing what I don't know what I'm doing.

Maturity consists of no longer being taken in by oneself.

I am better than my reputation.

Every man stamps his value on himself ... man is made great or small by his own will.

As soon as you trust yourself you will know how to live.

If God had wanted me otherwise He would have created me otherwise.

I am what I am so take me as I am!

In youth we learn in age we understand.

If there be a faith that can move mountains it is faith in one's own power.

As far as your self-control goes as far goes your freedom.

Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves or you will never find it.

God made man simple but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.

They understand but little who understand only what can be explained.

We are never further from our wishes than when we imagine that we possess what we have desired.

The finer impulse of our nature.

The world's history is constant like the laws of nature and simple like the souls of men.

Let us live today.

Great Britain was going to make war on a kindred nation who desired nothing better than to be friends with her.

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

(The great questions of the day) are not decided by speeches and majority votes but by blood and iron.

Do your duty until it becomes your joy.

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts.

Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.

Ingmar Bergman had a great sense of humor, and he had a very special, characteristic laugh that you always recognized - if he went to watch a theater show, 'Ah! He is here tonight.'

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

Be polite write diplomatically even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.

War... is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.

Love does not dominate it cultivates.

Sports cars from the '50s and '60s are my favorites.

The basic idea of Games With a Purpose is that we are taking a problem that computers cannot yet solve, and we are getting people to solve it for us while they are playing a game.

For many, graduation marks the end of formal student life - the end of long spring breaks and of thinking that a 10 A.M. class is far too early.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.