[Alexander von Humboldt was the] greatest scientific traveller who ever lived.
No one has characterized market mechanisms better than Friedrich von Hayek.
Frau Schmidt: The Von Trapp children don't play. They march.
Captain von Trapp: The first rule of this household is discipline.
Buttercup: My name's Buttercup. You've met Baron von Shush.
Vanellope von Schweetz: You really are a bad guy.
Vanellope von Schweetz: Everyone here says I'm just a mistake...
Lilly von Schtupp: Let's face it. Evewything below the waist... is kaput!
Lili Von Shtupp: Why don't you... loosen your bullets?
Da ich nun einmal nicht imstande war, die Menschen vernünftiger zu machen, war ich lieber fern von ihnen glücklich.
Each of us is shaped by the truth of our natures. Von to Silver
Es ist eine Leidenschaft, aus Liebe geboren, von Verzweiflung genährt und durch Trauer besiegelt.
Der Gedanke ist ein Vogel, der Raum braucht und in einem Käfig von Worten zwar seine Flügel ausbreiten, aber nicht fliegen kann.
Hedley Lamarr: [to Lili Von Stupp] Shut up, you Teutonic twat!
When the sun riseth first, the beams over-gild the tops of green mountains that look toward the east, and the world cannot hinder the sun to rise: some are so near heaven, that the everlasting Sun hath begun to make an everlasting day of glory on the...
Faith is tested throughout our lives (James 1:3; I Peter 1:7). As the object of our faith proves Himself faithful throughout these trials, our faith grows. Even if we do not have God’s personal revelation about why we are suffering or how He is wea...
The nativity mystery “conceived from the Holy Spirit and born from the Virgin Mary”, means, that God became human, truly human out of his own grace. The miracle of the existence of Jesus , his “climbing down of God” is: Holy Spirit and Virgin...
It is the most sweet and comfortable knowledge; to be studying Jesus Christ, what is it but to be digging among all the veins and springs of comfort? And the deeper you dig, the more do these springs flow upon you. How are hearts ravished with the di...
The State which would provide everything, absorbing everything into itself, would ultimately become a mere bureaucracy incapable of guaranteeing the very thing which the suffering person—every person—needs: namely, loving personal concern. We do ...
He wants in His freedom actually not to be without man but WITH him and in the same freedom not against him but FOR him, and that apart from or even counter to what man deserves. He wants in fact to be man's partner, his almighty and compassionate Sa...
What we must think about is an agriculture with a human face. We must give standing to the new pioneers, the homecomers bent on the most important work for the next century - a massive salvage operation to save the vulnerable but necessary pieces of ...