Gustaf Emil Mannerheim Quotes & Sayings

Do you know what the definition of insane is? Yes. It's the inability to relate to another human being. It's the inability to love. — Richard Yates

You stand out more than Victoria Beckham would in the local Primark! — Chris Ryan

I accept the fact I am an unregenerate egghead. — Malcolm Muggeridge

Right Question can lead to some great ideas, — Kevin P. Coyne

Because on some level, even though it never turns out to be true, and even though I should know better, I still expect life to be like the movies. — E. Lockhart

There never was a simpler, happier family until the coming of Peter Pan. — J.M. Barrie

The French are completely without scruples, energy or valor - the Great War castrated them and left them diminished, whiney, mistaking bickering for debate and shrillness for eloquence, they are a nation in such effete decline that Shickelgrubber, when he finally attacks them, might be dancing with the keys to Paris in his hand after a week or two of puny skirmishing. — Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim

When a man loves a woman, can't keep his mind on nothing else. He'd trade the world for the good thing he's found. — Percy Sledge

Officers don't run, only corporals do that — Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim

On Being Asked to Write a Poem Against the War in Vietnam

Well I have and in fact
more than one and I'll
tell you this too

I wrote one against
Algeria that nightmare
and another against

Korea and another
against the one
I was in

and I don't remember
how many against
the three

when I was a boy
Abyssinia Spain and
Harlan county

and not one
breath was restored
to one

shattered throat
mans womans or childs
not one not

one
but death went on and on
never looking aside

except now and then like a child
with a furtive half-smile
to make sure I was noticing. — Hayden Carruth

There's nothing so aphrodisiacal for a woman as money and success. — Wilbur Smith

She answered: "You know what I want," her voice heavy and flat. "Yes. But I want to hear you say it. All of it." "If you wish." Her voice had the sound of efficiency, obeying an order with metallic precision. "I want to sleep with you. Now, tonight, and at any time you may care to call me. I want your naked body, your skin. your mouth, your hands. I want you - like this - not hysterical with desire - but coldly and consciously - without dignity and without regrets - I want you — Ayn Rand

Diligent accumulation of personal wealth is not inherently ungodly so long as it is complemented by equally diligent distribution of personal wealth. — Kobe Bryant

Fortifications, artillery, foreign aid - will be of no value, unless the ordinary soldier knows that it is HE guarding his country — Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim

The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that. — Karl Barth

The overwhelming joy of conversion or a new calling is often followed by feelings of being overwhelmed with duties and doctrines. The first joyous feelings are real and give one much-needed initial momentum. But the genuine exhilaration is soon followed by the need to perspire and to pedal. — Neal A. Maxwell

For a strong adversary (corps) the opposition of twenty-four squadrons and twelve guns ought not to have appeared very serious, but in war the psychological factors are often decisive. An adversary who feels inferior is in reality so. — Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim

In dreams we stand in this great democracy of the possible and there we are right pilgrims indeed. There we go forth to meet what we shall meet. — Cormac McCarthy