Use Quotes - Page 205

We are plain quiet folk, and I have no use for adventures. Nasty, disturbing, and uncomfortable things.

Staying focused on a project or plan is one of the most difficult challenges we face. There is always the house to clean, calls to make, laundry to fold, deadlines to meet. Actually, there is only one thing that keeps us from our goals - lack of focus. And very often, lack of focus is caused by fear.

Can one move an empire as if it were a house?

Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.

We smile, because this is how we save the world.

I refuse to adapt or integrate myself.

I've always longed for the theatre and acting to be popular. No actor wants to play to an empty house. We only do it for an audience. The more the merrier. I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.

The older we become, the more important it is to use what we know rather than learn more.

The ceremonial and religious uses of psychedelics are much older than their recreational uses and abuses. For most of their history, they have been mysterious, dangerous substances and must be treated respectfully.

In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter?

The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.

A rocket won't fly unless somebody lights the fuse!

Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession, as well as outside my profession in my intercourse with men, if it be what should not be published abroad, I will never divulge, holding such things to be holy secrets.

The priests are debarred from female society, nor is any woman permitted to enter the religious houses.

The only true non-conformists are in the asylums; the only radically free spirits are in the death house awaiting the chair. We live by patterns.

It is precisely through the indeterminate nature of history that resistance becomes possible and politics refuses any guarantees and remains open.

Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.

What we call little things are merely the causes of great things.

Zsa Zsa Gabor is an expert housekeeper. Every time she gets divorced, she keeps the house.

Congress, the White House and Hollywood, Wall Street are owned by the Zionists.

I used to be a fan of proportional representation, but I am not at all now I have seen it in action.

What use is it for me to force my nature? / For my nature shall always remain / What it is and conquer what belongs to it, / However men may narrow its path.

Unionism, seldom if ever, uses such powers as it has to ensure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguard bad work.

For me to go into politics would be like sending a virgin into a house of ill-repute.

After [Adolf] Hitler took power, Hoffmann moved to a grander place on the Ebersbergerstrasse. I never saw the first house, I was never there. It was at the Schnorrstrasse that Eva [Braun] and he first really got to know each other. Some of this was before Geli Raubal's death, much of it was after that event.