Udet 8 Quotes & Sayings

As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not. — Lester B. Pearson

There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty-unless she is wed to something more meaningful-is always superficial — Donna Tartt

I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to be born two or three centuries hence. — Benjamin Franklin

It was like a hand which had opened and thrown suddenly upon her a handful of sunbeams. — Victor Hugo

You know, right now, they say - I don't know who says this, but somebody told me - there's three male roles to every female role. And I guess I'd work on evening that up. Making great roles for women. It's just such a huge challenge. — Anna Faris

To be a great pilot you have to make a pact with the devil, but don't let him swallow you up. — Ernst Udet

It is as though horror has frozen the blood in my veins, paralyzed my arms, and torn all thought from my brain with the swipe of a paw. I sit there, flying on, and continue to stare, as though mesmerised, at the Cauldron on my left. — Ernst Udet

Unless one can think wisely it is better to remain a dummy. — L. Frank Baum

I did love her, though, for a little while anyhow. That was the thing: I still believed, on some fundamental level, that love would cure me. That if only I were loved deeply enough by someone else, I would be content to stay a man. It wouldn't be my authentic life, but it would be all right. It was better, in any case, than coming out as transsexual, taking hormones, and having some gruesome operation and walking around like Herman Munster. An authentic life wasn't very appealing. And so I allowed myself to be lifted off the ground by the levitating properties of romantic love. — Jennifer Finney Boylan

If you stop focusing on all the reasons why you can't do it, you just may surprise yourself to see what you can do. — Frank Sonnenberg

Disney is a delight, someone who ... sweeps those around him along on his dream. — Cory Doctorow

My poor sister was forced to be in the plays that I would write. We would go to my grandma's retirement building and perform 'Phantom of the Opera.' — Lindy Booth

Jesus was a suicide, if you ask me. — Marsha Norman

Sometimes it's the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination. — Drake

When I decided to write about my brother and friends, I was attempting to answer the question why. Why did they all die like that? Why so many of them? Why so close together? Why were they all so young? Why, especially, in the kinds of places where we are from? Why would they all die back to back to back to back? I feel like I was writing my way towards an answer in the memoir. — Jesmyn Ward

I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information. — Larry Flynt

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking. — George Sand