Archduke Ferdinand Quotes

#1. Compared with the person who had decorated and furnished the place, the Archduke Ferdinand had been blessed with the taste of a troupe of Turkish circus dwarves.

Philip Kerr

#2. For some stories, it's easy. The moral of 'The Three Bears,' for instance, is Never break into someone else's house.' The moral of 'Snow White' is 'Never eat apples.' The moral of World War I is 'Never assassinate Archduke Ferdinand.

Lemony Snicket

#3. Laughter comes from living.

Tahereh Mafi

#4. SOME DAMNED FOOLISH THING in the Balkans, Bismarck had predicted, would ignite the next war. The assassination of the Austrian heir apparent, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, by Serbian nationalists on June 28, 1914, satisfied his condition.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#5. thou treacherous coal-souled wank-weasel!

Christopher Moore

#6. If you want to destroy a man, you don't take his life. You let him live. Then you take his peace of mind, his possessions, his loved ones... everything he owns. Then he will beg you to kill him.

Elizabeth Ellen Carter

#7. As you read or listen to God's Word and spend time talking to Him in prayer, your spirit will eventually become stronger than your flesh.

Joyce Meyer

#8. We may complain and cavil at the anarchy which is the amateurs natural element, but in soberness we must agree that if the amateur did not exist it would be necessary to invent him.

Jacques Barzun

#9. It hurt like hell, but at least it felt true. Her mind could settle into that pain.

Faith McKay

#10. I used the Nobel money to buy a house and for the education of my children.

Wolfgang Ketterle

#11. To fear is to have more faith in your antagonist than in Christ.

D.L. Moody

#12. Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events. Its verity is in fact an event, a process: the process namely of its verifying itself, its veri-fication. Its validity is the process of its valid-ation.

William James

#13. A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.

Alexander Pope

#14. Thanks for the reminder that i have to hit the gym today. I have'nt worked out in days.
Unless one counted mattress gymnastics!!!

Sylvia Day

#15. ARCHDUKE FRANZ FERDINAND. 1863-1914. LLIE LIGHTLY UPON HIM EARTH, THO' HE / LAID MANY A HEAVY BURDEN UPON THEE.

John Green

#16. Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary.

Anton Rubinstein

#17. He read the classics, the French and the German among others, but primarily the Russian, which enchanted him with their heavy patience.

Tove Jansson

#18. I've tried as much as possible to avoid the standard nine-to-five thing. I've tried to organize my life so that I can move around, change the rhythm and the tempo.

Assata Shakur

#19. Somebody once said to me after I'd done "Deep Impact," "What is it like to play a Black president," and I said, "I didn't play a Black president. I played a president. I just happened to be Black. There's a difference.

Morgan Freeman