Von Quotes

63 Von quotes by 58 unique authors

Following a meeting with Hitler, Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber, a man who had 'courageously criticized the Nazi attacks on the Catholic Church' - went away… — Ian Kershaw
Running overtime is the one unforgivable error a lecturer can make. After fifty minutes (one microcentury as von Neumann used to say) everybody's attention will… — Gian-Carlo Rota
I would like to have you quote me, Erich von Stroheim, as having said on this day of this month of this year this one… — Erich von Stroheim
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — John Herschel
Wenn jemand sich in Inkarnation befindet, bietet ihm dieser KÃ¶rper das Problem, das er erlernen muss oder (wenn die Evolution fortgeschritten ist) bietet den TrÃ¤ger,… — Alice Bailey
The spectacular thing about Johnny [von Neumann] was not his power as a mathematician, which was great, or his insight and his clarity, but his… — Paul Halmos
Right now Von Miller is the best pass rusher in the world. He looks exactly like Derrick Thomas did in his heyday. He can absolutely… — Jon Gruden
The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute's eugenics studies were initially endowed by Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, the head of the Krupp munitions monolith, and James… — Jim Keith
There's nothing wrong with a plan, but remember Von Moltke's famous dictum that no plan survives first contact with the enemy. The danger is a… — Tim Harford
My intimate knowledge of many central African tribes has everywhere convinced me of the necessity that the Negro does not respect treaties but only brute… — Frantz Fanon
One might almost say, to adapt von Clausewitz, that modern warfare is PR by other means. And war-winning strategies mean that modern armies most stop… — David Frum
On September 17, 1914, Erzberger, the well-known German statesman, an eminent member of the Catholic Party, wrote to the Minister of War, General von Falkenhayn,… — Georges Clemenceau
Like Prince von Bismarck in diplomacy, I have no secrets. — Albert J. Nock
The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps. — Maggie Stiefvater
I can't speak American dog very well. There was a lot of improvisation with Uggie - like when I put the dog on the table… — Jean Dujardin
All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control. Describing John von Neumann's aspiration for the application of computers sufficiently large to… — Freeman Dyson
Growing up, I had one very specific idea of what a wedding should be, and that was the wedding of Fraulein Maria and Captain von… — Ellie Kemper
I am convinced that of all the people on the two sides of the great curtain, the space pilots are the least likely to hate… — Konrad Lorenz
During the first half of the present century we had an Alexander von Humboldt, who was able to scan the scientific knowledge of his time… — Hermann von Helmholtz
If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine. - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller. — Friedrich Schiller

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