Austro Quotes

#1. When my father was born, it was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. When I was born, it was Lithuania. When I left, it was Hungary. It is difficult to say where I come from.

Elie Wiesel

#2. So in Europe, we had empires. Everyone had them - France and Spain and Britain and Turkey! The Ottoman Empire, full of furniture for some reason. And the Austro-Hungarian Empire, famous for fuck all! Yes, all they did was slowly collapse like a flan in a cupboard.

Eddie Izzard

#3. I was born in Vienna on November 7, 1929, eleven years after the multiethnic Austro-Hungarian Empire fell apart following its defeat in World War I.

Eric Kandel

#4. However, in three months of fighting, and with the men who died or surrendered at Przemysl included, the Austro-Hungarian Army has lost nearly 950,000 men killed, wounded, and captured. This

Matt Kersley

#5. I grew up between the two world wars and received a rather solid general education, the kind middle class children enjoyed in a country whose educational system had its roots dating back to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.

George Andrew Olah

#6. College girls on the road! One-night stands! Lee felt like an Austro-Hungarian emperor attended on his deathbed by flappers. He felt them stealing his life - literally going back in time and taking, through their incoherent lifestyles, the little he had struggled so hard to attain.

Nell Zink

#7. During the first six years of my life, Hungary was one of the most important components of the Habsburg dynasty's vast Austro-Hungarian Empire, but after World War I it became an independent national entity.

Georg Solti

#8. Warning: we may become so enamored with God's good gifts that we fail to worship the Giver.

A.B. Simpson

#9. Waiting is far more difficult than doing.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#10. Age is the biggest risk factor for many diseases. You're 100 times more likely to get a tumor at age 65 than age 35. It makes a huge difference. It gives a whole new meaning to preventive medicine.

Cynthia Kenyon

#11. I just want to tell a good story, so I always ask myself, 'Are these people real to me?'

Ruth Rendell

#12. To live within the tethers of desire is - again and again - to be shocked at how far they have come loose from reason

Samuel R. Delany

#13. Success is a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.

Robert Strauss

#14. It is a peculiarity of the American mind that it regards any excursion into the truth as an adventure into cynicism.

H.L. Mencken

#15. The more value you create for others, the more your life will work. Commit yourself to doing good. To get more from life, you must give more to life.

Robin S. Sharma

#16. I' means the Self and 'my' means what belongs to the self. All that is 'my' is acquisition [parigrah]. You should keep [only] whatever acquisition you are able to carry.

Dada Bhagwan

#17. Twitter is great to connect with fans and be transparent. I enjoy that aspect about it. But really, I'm still trying to figure it out.

Kobe Bryant

#18. We recognize the action of God in great things: we exclude it in small. We forget that the Lord of eternity is also the Lord of the hour.

Sophie Swetchine