Biography Quotes
Hospital vigils inspire us to such nostalgia. Hospital vigils take place in slow-time during which the mind floats free, a frail balloon drifting into the sky as into infinity.
That I was sleeping at a time when my husband was dying is so horrible a thought, I can’t confront it.
She will speculate that she didn’t fully know her husband—this will give her leverage to seek him, to come to know him. It will keep her husband “alive” in her memory—elusive, teasing.
How exhausted I am suddenly!—though this has been Ray’s best day in the hospital so far, and we are feeling—almost—exhilarated.
Virtually every literary piece written about Adolf Hitler in more than half a century since 1945 has been based on anti
I hope this book helps people to heal & their not the only one because no one is a mistake God put you on earth for one reason. I am not a mistake.
I do not think my life would make a very interesting book, ' I say. 'I feel I can speak with a certain amount of authority here.
Emotions are like passing storms, and you have to remind yourself that it won't rain forever.
The great biographers take excessive liberties in denigrating his person, and, in doing so, they make it difficult to comprehend
The intellectually-inclined biographers stray from the point that the message is directed through the spoken word at the broad masses and not writing to an inbred, self-adoring intellectual e
Although characterized as uncultured and unread, Hitler comes off in his demands to create a monumental signature for a Greater Germany as historically and artistically gi
To comprehend the Hitler of 1919 is to comprehend the Hitler of the entire period from 1919 through
(...)it seems more probable that his anti-Semitism was less emotional and more objective than has been assumed to the pre
Hitler took the action of pitiless massacre as a last resort in the face of a perceived irreconcilable e
And in contrast to the Communist revolution in Russia and the Communist attempts at revolution in Germany from 1918 through 1923, Hitler's were virtually blood
The coolly calibrated manipulation of the credulous American public, by an administration bent upon stoking paranoid patriotism!
The gardener is the quintessential optimist: not only does he believe that the future will bear out the fruits of his efforts, he believes in the future.
For writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy, freedom.
It is utterly naive, futile, uninformed—to think that our species is exceptional. So designated to master the beasts of the Earth, as in the Book of Genesis!
In America, they make a lot of fuss over little things.
The Book Highlights and Attacks areas of Inefficiency and Hypocrisy in Government Offices. It injects the much-need Enema into its Highly Constipated System.
A Book for the Service Minded as well as the Government Bashers, on How to Be and How Not to Be.
She was an autocrat, didn't really believe in democracy. The benefit of her approach was that, if you work with twenty people and ask everybody's opinion, you would never achieve what she did.
Start to focus on things that unite the races of people instead of things that divide us, and you will have already won the battle, and are a building block to the solution.
If you put forth a small amount of effort, you just might find your next best friend for life is of a different race than your own.
Courage, kindness and a great determination to succeed in life with a smile were hallmarks of my wonderful wife. And why her story deserves to be told.
He was able to sit in silence for long stretches without feeling a need to make small talk.
Wherever he went he left footprints so firm that nobody could later efface or blur them, not even he himself, when on rare occasions he was tempted to do so.
She had privacy, and the privilege of walking up and down the same battlements as the sentries.
The art stream is filled with snags and has no volume so it has no support. If you finally choose art, no amount of reason or common sense can discourage you. You must selfishly carry on.
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. -- Stella Adler
Yet how could I not have believed Hitler a genius and unique when every day I saw and heard how the major personalities of the Reich fawned over him and worshipped him with total devotion.
Nicky Cruz: You come near me and I'll kill you!David Wilkerson: Yeah, you could do that. You could cut me up into a thousand pieces and lay them in the street, and every piece will still love you.
For a once renowned woman who loved telling tales of dodging bullets, wielding grenades and subverting dogs trained to kill, Christine's story is, surprisingly, little known today.
May be you find out I could be useful getting people out of camps and prisons in Germany - just before they got shot. I should love to do it and I like to jump out of a plane even every day.
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The Greatest” is a bite-your-tongue-book. Ultimately a tragic tale it is also immensely uplifting and easily the best footballer biography I have ever read.
There began to appear before my romantic eyes...a vast and complicated network of espionage, terror, sadism and hate, from which no one, official or private, could escape.
Love is a fine mingling of holding on and letting go.
The classic Aryan who idolized himself and who existed in his own dreams could not bear to see the Jew, the evidence of divine reality, and he would kill him.
To Howard Goodkin, for the immense work he did in his short life so Hispanic children can stand tall and proud.