Gottlob Bidermann Quotes & Sayings

It was widely accepted within the ranks of those fighting in the east that death on the battlefield was preferable to an unknown destiny in a Soviet prisoner of war camp. This mentality often played a role in the many acts of bravery demonstrated by individuals or entire units. During the closing days of the war it was not at all uncommon for entire companies, battalions, and battle groups to fight to the last man, the survivors going into captivity only when ammunition was exhausted and wounds were too grave to allow further resistance. — Gottlob Herbert Bidermann

I think I've developed, as many people do, this sense of, 'Don't say the wrong thing, or else people will point at you and laugh.' — Taylor Swift

The expectation in the Obama Administration, or at least the hope, is that a nuclear deal with the West could ultimately moderate Iranian behavior by helping to integrate the country more thoroughly into the international system. Will this happen? It's impossible to predict, of course. We will only know if we get there. — Dexter Filkins

We are all kitsch on our deathbeds. — Odd Nerdrum

No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,
More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring.
Comforter, where, where is your comforting?
Mary, mother of us, where is your relief?
My cries heave, herds-long; huddle in a main, a chief-
woe, world-sorrow; on an age-old anvil wince and sing
Then lull, then leave off. Fury had shrieked 'No ling-
ering! Let me be fell: force I must be brief'.
O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall
Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap
May who ne'er hung there. Nor does long our small
Durance deal with that steep or deep. Here! creep,
Wretch, under a comfort serves in a whirlwind: all
Life death does end and each day dies with sleep. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

Beauty is meaningless until it is shared. If he had one person, just one, to halve his loneliness! — Anonymous

How the hell do you think I feel?" I don't want to end up inside a woman!" He paused. "Well, at least not that way — Karen Chance

Plan and execute your first failure so that you no longer have to fear it. — John C. Maxwell

But I grow old and I forget your name. (I think I made you up inside my head.) — Sylvia Plath

This world, such as it is, is not tolerable. Therefore I need the moon, or happiness, or immortality, I need something which is perhaps demented, but which is not of this world. — Albert Camus

I work best inundated with things, when it's like raining information. — Ryan Seacrest

It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one. Those who have followed the assertive idiot rather than the introspective wise person have passed us some of their genes. This is apparent from a social pathology: psychopaths rally followers. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

A rationalization a day keeps your conscience at bay. — Anthony O'Neill