"To do nothing by halves is the way of noble spirits."

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Source : "Oberon". Book by Christoph Martin Wieland, Song 5, st. 30, transl. by A. B. Faust, New York: F. S. Crofts, p. 326, 1940.

Christoph Martin Wieland

#Noble Quotes #Half Quotes #Way Quotes

“People keep pushing me to be the center of attention... I would prefer to be on the sidelines, because that's where you see more.”
“We read advertisements ... to discover and enlarge our desires.”
“I always made stuff but never thought, I'm going to be an artist.”
“The sap of Spring in the young wood a-stir Will celebrate with green the Mother, And every song-bird shout awhile for her; But we are gifted, even in November Rawest of seasons, with so huge a sense Of Her nakedly worn magnificence We forget cruelty and past betrayal, Heedless of where the next bright bolt may fall.”
“I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse.”
“The real art of conducting consists in transitions.”
“Even an inaccurate missile is quite a deterrent.”
“I believe it will take time to find a solution to the problem. Thus we must have patience.”

Source : "Welcome to Sarajevo", 1997.

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