Otto von Bismarck Quotes

Mein lieber Professor, ein solcher Krieg hätte uns wenigstens 30,000 Mann brave Soldaten gekostet, und uns im besten Falle keinen Gewinn gebracht. Wer aber nur ein Mal in das brechende Auge eines sterbenden Kriegers auf dem Schlachtfeld geblickt hat, der besinnt sich, bevor er einen Krieg anfängt.

Otto von Bismarck

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• Only by the sweat of my own brow. I am a totally working man.

  

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• But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it.

  

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• I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.

  

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• I try to widen the horizons of every child I meet, and part of that is promoting diverse forms, be it graphic novels, stories told in a narrative voice, or more translated books, as well as more diverse writers and more diverse characters.

  

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• I'm not trying to set the world on fire; I just want to make really beautiful clothes that women want to wear, can afford, and can really see themselves in.

  

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• Stay calm and aggressive.

  

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• When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.

  

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• Basically, my parents messed up because it was the Sixties, and they both had affairs, but they had a great love for each other. I saw that when my father flew over from Los Angeles when he knew my mother was going to die.

  

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• It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these instant decisions have to be made about how you balance out the time and attention between them.

  

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• I have been lucky enough to travel a lot, meet great people in many lands. I have liked almost everyone I met along the way.

  

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• I'm receiving 300 to 500 letters every week from people telling me that God used my stories to save their marriage or to introduce them to Christ or to heal a relationship that had been broken.

  

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• That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids', is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children don't like, it is having one parent.

  

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• I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.

  

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• You've been entrusted with a lot of money and a lot of careers, and a lot of people put their faith in me, and every director goes through that every time.

  

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• I have to believe that people can change, otherwise I deny the Gospel, and I will not do that.

  

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• Capra is an old-time movie craftsman, the master of every trick in the bag, and in many ways he is more at home with the medium than any other Hollywood director. But all of his details give the impression of contrived effect.

  

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• I don't miss my youth. I'm glad I had one, but I wouldn't like to start over.

  

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• The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.

  

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• The ideal of warriorship is that the warrior should be sad and tender, and because of that, the warrior can be very brave as well.

  

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• The man had added to his body in a way that was brave and timeless and beyond adornment.

  

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• Mein lieber Professor, ein solcher Krieg hätte uns wenigstens 30,000 Mann brave Soldaten gekostet, und uns im besten Falle keinen Gewinn gebracht. Wer aber nur ein Mal in das brechende Auge eines sterbenden Kriegers auf dem Schlachtfeld geblickt hat, der besinnt sich, bevor er einen Krieg anfängt.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Brave