Lackmann Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes the only way to feel better, when forgetting didn't work, was to talk to someone who knew how bad the thing could be. — Taylor Stevens

He broke through the barriers of the skies. — William Herschel

If a minstrel must embroider the truth to help us recall it fully, then let her, and let no one say she has lied. Truth is often much larger than facts. — Robin Hobb

Everybody's got a story that could break your heart. — Amanda Marshall

While many at the time found themselves in conflict over their loyalty as Germans and their identity as Christians, Lackmann insisted that for Christians there was no conflict; they must side with Christ and against the Nazi state. — Dean G. Stroud

I do not despise genius-indeed, I wish I had a basketful of it. But yet, after a great deal of experience and observation, I have become convinced that industry is a better horse to ride than genius. It may never carry any man as far as genius has carried individuals, but industry-patient, steady, intelligent industry-will carry thousands into comfort, and even celebrity; and this it does with absolute certainty. — Walter Lippmann

Whatever can be used for good most assuredly will be used for evil. — Patricia Cornwell

Poker is a game where you don't have to have the best hand to win. Poker is really reading other people and reading human emotion, which certainly comes into play in business. — Charlie Ergen

I don't want to do anything that I'm not passionate about. — Jude Law

On one occasion Barth invited a student to contribute an essay to the journal. The student was Max Lackmann, who was only twenty-four years old at the time. The essay, "Lord, Where Shall We Go?" appeared in the summer of 1934 and clearly drew a line between faithfulness to God's word and faithfulness to the Nazi state. — Dean G. Stroud

When fear has seized upon the mind, man fears that only which he first began to fear.
[Lat., Ubi intravit animos pavor, id solum metuunt, quod primum formidate coeperunt.] — Quintus Curtius Rufus