20th Century Austria Quotes

#1. When I was younger, I wanted to own a circus and create this bizarre revue that went from town to town. I suppose, in a way, I got my wish because when you're working on a film, you're in a traveling circus.

Neil Burger

#2. Writing constantly is the best tonic to jealousy I've found.

L. E. Henderson

#3. Often, the teachers would ask me what language we spoke at home. This was a not-so-subtle way of discovering if we spoke Yiddish (which we didn't) and were therefore Jewish (which we were).

Edith Hahn Beer

#4. They had been harboring a hatred for us which we had grown accustomed to calling "prejudice." What a gentle word that was! What a euphemism!

Edith Hahn Beer

#5. As Logan walked towards her, he smiled as if reading her mind and opened his arms.

Nicholas Sparks

#6. I adore summer entertaining. For a dinner party at the farm, I might prepare homemade fettuccine with porcini mushrooms, soft-shell crabs, spinach from the garden, and lemon tarts with fraises des bois for dessert.

Martha Stewart

#7. A smart hotel is a place where 100 people toil like devils in order that 200 may pay through the nose for things they do not really want.

George Orwell

#8. They were the prisoners hidden in different cages, and yet they saw each other every day. He named her fire and she named him the wind, the day they both touched and embraced each other they burnt down everything that stood in their way.

Akshay Vasu

#9. We were taught that the French were our archenemies, that the Italians were traitors, that Austria had lost the First World War only because of a "stab in the back" - but I must tell you, we were never sure who had done the stabbing.

Edith Hahn Beer

#10. Sethian began, sounding thoughtful. "As I said, last night was more than a night of pleasure. When I brought you into my bed, you became my wife.

Cristina Rayne

#11. We were sent to the Judengottesdienst, the children's service at the synagogue on Saturday afternoons. The maid was supposed to take us. But she was a Catholic, like most Austrians, and she feared the synagogue; and my mother - a working woman, dependent on her help - feared the maid.

Edith Hahn Beer

#12. We must learn to live in the ordinary 'gray' day according to what we saw on the mountain.

Oswald Chambers

#13. They wanted to know, you see. They were afraid that with our typical Austrian faces, we might be able to pass. They didn't want to be fooled. Even then, in the 1920s, they wanted to be able to tell who was a Jew.

Edith Hahn Beer

#14. At the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century in Austria, there was a lot of anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism in Austria was much more pervasive than in Germany. And Austrians took to Nazi ideas and anti-Semitism much more readily than Germans did, really.

Viggo Mortensen

#15. I signed their paper. It was a contract obligating me to spend six weeks doing farmwork in the north of Germany. If I didn't show up at the train station tomorrow, the paper said, I would be treated as a wanted criminal and hunted down without mercy.

Edith Hahn Beer

#16. We are identifying with what is passing so fear comes. We are trying to make steady and permanent what is by nature impermanent.

Mooji

#17. Generation on generation, your neck rubbed the windowsill
of the stall, smoothing the wood as the sea smooths glass.

Donald Hall

#18. Wartime always brings expansions of state power, together with erosions of moral and constitutional standards.

Joseph Sobran

#19. The freer the society gets, the more dangerous the great beast becomes and the more you have to be careful to cage it somehow.

Noam Chomsky