Fritz Wotruba (1907–1975) Austrian sculptor (23 April 1907, Vienna – 28 August 1975, Vienna)
Source: The Human Form: Sculpture, Prints, and Drawings, 1977, p. 22.
Source: The Human Form: Sculpture, Prints, and Drawings, 1977, p. 6.
Fritz Wotruba (1907–1975) Austrian sculptor (23 April 1907, Vienna – 28 August 1975, Vienna)
Source: The Human Form: Sculpture, Prints, and Drawings, 1977, p. 22.
“I am not concerned that you fall; I am concerned that you arise.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Attributed in Deborah Gillan Straub (1996), Native North American Voices
Misattributed
Wilhelm Liebknecht (1826–1900) German socialist politician
We must strive for unity at any price and with all sacrifices. But while we are uniting and organizing, we must rid ourselves of all foreign and antagonistic elements. What would one say of a general who in the enemy’s country sought to fill the ranks of his army with recruits from the ranks of the enemy? Would that not be the height of foolishness? Very well, to take into our army – which is an army for the class struggle and the class war – opponents, soldiers with aims and interests entirely opposite to our own, – that would be madness, that would be suicide.
No Compromise – No Political Trading (1899)
“I am not concerned that I am not known; I seek to be worthy to be known.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
“I am not so much concerned with the return on capital as I am with the return of capital.”
Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer
The Prudent Professor: Planning and Saving for a Worry-Free Retirement (2011) by Edwin M. Bridges, Brian D. Bridges;
Forbes Guide to the Markets: Becoming a Savvy Investor (2009) by Forbes, LLC, Marc M. Groz
The National Underwriter, Volume 45 (1941), p. 12: "As Eddie Cantor put it years ago, after getting burned in the stock market, the life insurance policyholder is more interested in the return of his money than in the return on it."
Misattributed
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
1920s, Viereck interview (1929)
Rudiger Dornbusch (1942–2002) German economist
Source: Open economy macroeconomics, 1980, p. 14
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet
"Angel Surrounded by Paysans" (1949)
Context: I am one of you and being one of you
Is being and knowing what I am and know.
Yet I am the necessary angel of earth,
Since, in my sight, you see the earth again,
Cleared of its stiff and stubborn, man-locked set
And, in my hearing, you hear its tragic drone
Rise liquidly in liquid lingerings,
Like watery words awash; like meanings said
By repetitions of half-meanings. Am I not,
Myself, only half a figure of a sort,
A figure half seen, or seen for a moment, a man
Of the mind, an apparition appareled in
Apparels of such lightest look that a turn
Of my shoulders and quickly, too quickly, I am gone?
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev (1953) Kazakh politician
Source: Kassym-Jomart Tokayev (2021) cited in: " Kassym-Jomart Tokayev: “We Will Come Out of This Crisis Even Stronger” https://astanatimes.com/2022/01/kassym-jomart-tokayev-we-will-come-out-of-this-crisis-even-stronger/" in The Astana Times, 5 January 2021.