Bertha von Suttner Quotes

How can justice be attained when, in the expiation of an old wrong, another wrong is to be committed? No reasonable creature would conceive of the idea of obliterating ink stains with ink, or spots of oil with oil. Only blood must be washed out with blood.

Bertha von Suttner

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: austrian
  • Birth: June 9, 1843 - June 21, 1914

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Julia Roberts most definitely would play me in the film of my life. Not just because of the hair but because she has all sides to her personality come through in films that I could just imagine her playing my crazy self so well.

Jess Glynne

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I don't like a girl on social media, when you have an open inbox, answering questions from dudes left and right every day. What's the point? It's like having your number all out. Everybody think they're famous when they get 100,000 followers on Instagram and 5,000 on Twitter.

Meek Mill

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I live in Paris, a city where you have a lot of stylish women, so I learned a lot by observing the women in the street. But my mother was always a big influence as well; she is always very feminine in high heels and perfectly cut dresses, with perfect makeup but never too much.

Jeanne Damas

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Once you trust in yourself, you automatically want to go outside of yourself.

Jeff Koons

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Tensions and violence in cities across America are reminders of how quickly communities can erupt with an absence of social trust.

Stanley A. McChrystal

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I'm not afraid to have my heart broken and go out and meet people.

Ruth B

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Keep it simple. Layer your leotard with high waisted skinny jeans, legwarmers, and heels or high boots.

Mary Helen Bowers

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Our own State Department polls say that 80 percent of Iraqis view the United States as an unpopular occupier.

Marty Meehan

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I somewhat resist the whole gay rights-vampire rights metaphor because it is fraught with problems. I don't want to be seen as a gay man as a blood-sucking killer. I don't think it is the way to win hearts and minds.

Denis O'Hare

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To be interested in short stories, you have to be interested in fiction as an art form.

Deborah Eisenberg

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It's crazy that the Constitution has to be amended to clarify what for the majority of Americans is a clear and true statement: corporations are not people.

Chellie Pingree

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I think it is the fact that I want to quit that keeps me going. It's very complicated. But I think part of this whole exploration with every job that I do is, in terms of overcoming fear and by overcoming the fear, I feel so much more complete, and I learn something new about myself.

Brie Larson

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