Manfred von Richthofen Quotes

As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet, but my father wished it. So my wishes were not consulted.

Manfred von Richthofen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: aviator
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: May 2, 1892 - April 21, 1918

Topics

FatherWishesBoyBecomeLittle

On balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians.

Jimmy Carter

LifePeaceBalanceThinkWish

I think the national team is more like a traveling circus. It's hard to get that translation into the NWSL teams.

Megan Rapinoe

TeamThinkCircusMoreHardGet

I tell stories. That's what I do. I've always told stories.

Sophie Kennedy Clark

AlwaysTellStories

It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.

Soren Kierkegaard

ManImperfectionDesireHumanOnly

I'm not a film snob.

Tracey Ullman

SnobFilm

I just don't like people coming up to me and saying something. It immediately makes you become insincere. There is no way you can react to it sincerely.

Tom Verlaine

PeopleMeSayingYouReactBecome

I was the first wrestler ever in the history of wrestling to star in a major motion studio picture that became #1 box office of the weekend, and that gave the itch to I don't know how many wrestlers.

Roddy Piper

HistoryPictureWeekendKnowOffice

There is a line in which populism can cross over into demagoguery. Demagoguery is the crossover where populism becomes a bad thing, and people make things up, and they assign responsibilities that aren't fair and justified, and scapegoat communities. And then it becomes a very bad thing.

Lloyd Blankfein

PeopleBadFairOverLineUp

When I did play team sports, I was into soccer and hockey. I loved hockey. And then rock climbing became the thing that got me out of Iowa, and I traveled the world for rock climbing. I really loved the, I guess you would say, dirtbag lifestyle of not eating much and traveling the world and slipping into different cultures and just observing.

Jason Momoa

SportsMeTeamWorldEatingHockey

I often say that 'Design Matters' began in February 2005 with an idea and a telephone line.

Debbie Millman

FebruaryDesignSayMattersLine

There's a difference between telling a story and not providing an explanation because you just don't do it well or pull it off.

Brad Anderson

StoryYouDifferenceWellOffJust

If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.

Anne Lamott

BeautyMusicGreatSkyOceanDesert

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