Manfred von Richthofen Quotes

In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.

Manfred von Richthofen

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• By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.

  

  Zach Woods
  • School
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• Mundra Port remains committed towards setting up of world-class port infrastructure and facilities in India.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • Up
  • World
  • India

• Everybody thinks they deserve something.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Something
  • Deserve
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• I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Life
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• 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented combination. From the very beginning we know the town of Macondo will endure only a century, so there is a limit to the length of the narrative.

  

  Edmund White
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• Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.

  

  Salvatore J. Cordileone
  • Gay
  • Living
  • Lesbian

• Turkey is a safe country. Stay there.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Country
  • Safe
  • Turkey

• The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Better
  • Average
  • Dressed

• I hope that the opening of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial will be a life-altering experience that inspires every American to rededicate themselves to the fulfillment of Dr. King's dream.

  

  Yvette Clarke
  • Life
  • Experience
  • American

• As a boy, my favorite show was 'Superman' and my favorite movie was 'Star Wars' - along with other science fiction shows and movies. And I always wanted to fly.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Movie
  • Science
  • Star

• Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Today
  • Same
  • Globalization

• When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Writing
  • Man
  • Doubt

• Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Children
  • Education
  • College

• He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • World
  • Man
  • Poetry

• Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Power
  • Year
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• If I had been in President Obama's shoes, I would have acted more decisively and strongly against ISIS.

  

  Rand Paul
  • President
  • Shoes
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• If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.

  

  Katharine Butler Hathaway
  • Time
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  • Realize

• We are so isolated in our own little worlds, in our own little geographies, that it's pretty hard to understand where someone else is coming from. And so I think that we have to really think about what that means as a country and, frankly, whether this segregation that we have is durable over the long run.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Long
  • Country
  • Think

• Whenever you bring up women's internal workings, guys want to change the subject. Unless, of course, they're trying to change the laws.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Up
  • Women
  • Trying

• A new survey reveals that women would rather give up sex than give up the remote control for the TV. Men, on the other hand, would be willing to have sex with the remote for the TV.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• As a child I had been so afraid of so many things, but as soon as I held a camera in my hand, I began to expose myself to the very things that were foreign to me and that I had always feared.

  

  Danny Lyon
  • Children
  • Hands
  • Cameras

• The first piece of 'long' fiction I wrote was a novella parody of Stephen King's 'Christine.' I was in high school, and my version was about a kid with a possessed locker instead of a possessed car. It was also my first attempt at humour, which fell completely flat because no one who read it realized it was a parody!

  

  Kelley Armstrong
  • Long
  • School
  • High

• Bike lanes are clearly controversial. And one of the problems with bike lanes - and I'm generally a supporter of bike lanes - but one of the problems with bike lanes has been not the concept of them, which I support, but the way the Department of Transportation has implemented them without consultation with communities and community boards.

  

  Christine Quinn
  • Community
  • Support
  • Bike

• In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.

  

  Manfred von Richthofen
  • Car
  • Summer
  • Heat