Stifter Quotes

#1. Listen friends, you have to face the truth: You are never going to be rich ... The system is rigged in favor of the few, and your name is not among them, not now and not ever.

Michael Moore

#2. The problem - when you cast your net that wide - is you inevitably catch something you don't want to catch.

Edward Felten

#3. Men fight wars. Women win them.

Elizabeth I

#4. Everything that now exists, no matter how great and good it is, lasts for a time, fulfills a purpose, and then passes on. And so it will be with all the works of art that now exist; an eternal veil of forgetfulness will lie over them, just as there is now over those things that came before.

Adalbert Stifter

#5. Everyone is out for himself. Not everyone will say so but everyone behaves so. And those that don't say so often behave in an even more grossly selfish way.

Adalbert Stifter

#6. Everything that God sends us is beautiful, even though we may not understand it - and we only need to give it some proper thought to see that what God gives is just sheer happiness; the suffering is what we add to it.

Adalbert Stifter

#7. The two had been in each other's company for a long time. They knew when the other wanted to talk, and when they wanted to think. The only problem was that more often than not, Victor wanted to think, and more often than not, Mitch wanted to talk.

Victoria Schwab

#8. Here for example the beautiful silver mirror of a river swells, a boy falls in, the water ripples sweetly around his locks, he sinks - and after a short while the silver mirror swells as before.

Adalbert Stifter

#9. My heart was full and uplifted; it seemed that in my soul the question arose whether such things as Art, literature, science encompassed and completed life or whether there was still something in the distance which encompassed it even more completely and filled it with a far greater happiness.

Adalbert Stifter

#10. We must admit that by approving multiculturalism in its current, misguided form, we are paving the road to White, Black, Indian and Asian genocide faster than the Sixth Mass Extinction.

Anita B. Sulser PhD

#11. Most places in the Midwest, you ski on piles of trash, like retired landfills.

Nick Goepper

#12. So March: Book One was the first book I ever wrote. And it was the most terrifying process I've ever been through.

Andrew Aydin

#13. In the old pieces of furniture almost as in the old paintings, dwells the charm of the past, of the faded which becomes stronger in a man when he reaches an advanced age.

Adalbert Stifter

#14. There are things we really do not understand; and much more than this, there are things we really do not try to understand!

Mehmet Murat Ildan