Barabanov Hockeydb Quotes

#1. He [Hitler] seemed very depressed and upset about the Stalingrad disaster. He said that one is always liable to look on the black side of things after a defeat, a tendency which can lead one into dangerous and false conclusions.

Erwin Rommel

#2. Somebody asked me the question not too long ago: 'Dave, do you think the music business has turned corrupt'. I said: 'Absolutely not - it has always been corrupt.

David Lee Roth

#3. To a book collector, you see, the true freedom of all books is somewhere on his shelves.

Walter Benjamin

#4. I like the analogy that the way that we live in Western Society, the energy that we consume in the form of fossil fuels, is the energy equivalent in pre-fossil fuel terms of having 500 slaves.

John Lindsay

#5. What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs?
[Lat., Quid enim est melius quam memoria recte factorum, et libertate contentum negligere humana?]

Marcus Junius Brutus The Younger

#6. When you are behind the times men mock you. When you are ahead of your time men reject you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#7. A man who will not die to save a woman is no man.

Robert Jordan

#8. My grandparents live in Cley, and my dad now has the windmill which is a guest house. So I've spent much time up there, but a lot of it was at school as well, and my dad was sent abroad so often as well with the army.

James Blunt

#9. Before success can truly become routine, there must be that transition from that wanting/hoping to have success toward honestly knowing you can earn success with your talents and work ethic.

George M. Gilbert

#10. You will fail. Then they will kill you. - Vandara to Kira, following Kira's trial.

Lois Lowry

#11. Now the son of a bitch was saying it was a fluke. Cloud nine to complete shit in ten seconds. The guy wasn't just an emotional roller coaster; he was a whole damned amusement park.

S.W. Vaughn