Klemens Von Quotes

#1. The word 'Italy' is a geographical expression, a description which is useful shorthand, but has none of the political significance the efforts of the revolutionary ideologues try to put on it, and which is full of dangers for the very existence of the states which make up the peninsula.

Klemens Von Metternich

#2. Men like M. de Talleyrand are like sharp instruments with which it is dangerous to play.

Klemens Von Metternich

#3. The obvious is always least understood.

Klemens Von Metternich

#4. The men who make history have not time to write it.

Klemens Von Metternich

#5. I don't think it's things that used to be that haunt us, but things that could have been.

Matthew Baker

#6. It seems to me that, later on, neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the chatterings of a 13-year-old schoolgirl ...

Anne Frank

#7. Sometimes you need things rather than just thoughts.

Patrick Ness

#8. Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.

Stefan Zweig

#9. When Paris has a cold, all Europe sneezes.

Klemens Von Metternich

#10. Italy is only a geographical expression.

Klemens Von Metternich

#11. I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.

Olga Kurylenko

#12. The answers aren't important really ... What's important is- knowing all the questions.

Zilpha Keatley Snyder

#13. Stability is not immobility.

Klemens Von Metternich

#14. I came into the world either too early or too late; at present, I am good for nothing.

Klemens Von Metternich

#15. Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.

Klemens Von Metternich

#16. It's your money or you'll be wearing cement shoes - Peppermint Patty

Charles M. Schulz

#17. Ten million ignorances do not constitute one knowledge.

Klemens Von Metternich

#18. Error has never approached my spirit.

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#19. My own thoughts Are my companions.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#20. It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them.

Klemens Von Metternich

#21. Poor, harmless paper, that might have gone to print a Shakespeare on, and was instead so clumsily defaced with nonsense.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#22. I hate people like that, people you have to protect while they keep hurting you.

Marlon James

#23. It's a burden to us even to be human beings-men with our own real body and blood; we are ashamed of it, we think it a disgrace and try to contrive to be some sort of impossible generalized man.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#24. The Koran must be historicized before applying it to modern issues.

Muhammad Khalid Masud

#25. History is replete with blunders written by sycophants.

Tomichan Matheikal

#26. In Europe democracy is a falsehood. I do not know where it will end, but it cannot end in a quiet old age.

Klemens Von Metternich

#27. Jim Cramer is a very smart man. I watch his show. I just do not follow his advice.

Robert Kiyosaki

#28. The word 'freedom' means for me not a point of departure but a genuine point of arrival. The point of departure is defined by the word 'order.' Freedom cannot exist without the concept of order.

Klemens Von Metternich

#29. Even David Hume, one of history most famous skeptics, said it's just barely possible that God exists.

Peter Kreeft

#30. The events which can not be prevented, must be directed.

Klemens Von Metternich