Donitz Quotes

#1. I honestly don't feel that it's my music that's under-appreciated. I think that it's me that's under-appreciated. As an artist, period.

Ne-Yo

#2. The north German does not go in for extremes. He has broader horizons than the men from the mountains of Bavaria and Austria.

Karl Donitz

#3. For the lessons one fails to learn during peacetime, one pays a high price in war.

Karl Donitz

#4. Our losses ... have reached an intolerable level. The enemy air force played a decisive role in inflicting these high losses.

Karl Donitz

#5. I was fascinated by the [operation] of a U-boat ... where every single man was an indispensable part of the whole. Every submariner, I am sure, has experienced in his heart [the joy of] the task entrusted to him [and] felt as rich as a king.

Karl Donitz

#6. I read sometime around 1938 of Jewish fines and some street actions against them. But I was too concerned with U-Boats and the naval problems to be concerned about Jews.

Karl Donitz

#7. With the new weapons like the atom bomb, Russia would have it, too, and use it first. It is a very difficult world. But that trouble is imminent is obvious.

Karl Donitz

#8. The reason that the American Navy does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the Americans practice chaos on a daily basis.

Karl Donitz

#9. There were a group of people before the Ascension known as the Astalsi. They claimed that each person was born with a certain finite amount of ill luck. And so, when an unfortunate event happened, they thought themselves blessed - thereafter, their lives could only get better.

Brandon Sanderson

#10. The moment we give in, no machine in the world can help us. But as long as we do not lose the feeling that calls out to every valiant man, 'You are born to rule,' we shall always know how to create the best instruments of power of our time.

Ernst Junger

#11. Immigration is a sensitive topic.

Mario Diaz-Balart

#12. I accept responsibility for U-boat warfare from 1933 onward, and of the entire navy from 1943 on, but to make me responsible for what happened to Jews in Germany, or Russian soldiers on the east front it is so ridiculous all I can do is laugh.

Karl Donitz

#13. A word is elegy to what it signifies.

Robert Haas

#14. Only ... from personal experience [can a man] take the necessary measures without a preliminary process of trial and error.

Karl Donitz

#15. I'm an old man at 54, without teeth, and with rheumatism.

Karl Donitz

#16. There is no past. That's another illusion. Everything that has ever happened to you, to me, to anyone in this world, happened in the present moment. That's all there ever is. So your relationship to life isn't your relationship to your past, it's your relationship to the present moment.

Wayne Dyer

#17. Your American admiral said that he held me in the highest esteem, and thought that I conducted my defense perfectly. He said through his chief of staff that my conduct was beyond reproach and he had the greatest admiration for me.

Karl Donitz

#18. Our losses ... have reached and intolerable level.

Karl Donitz

#19. We nurture the candle flames that show the way ahead. We are guerrillas of the word, unsung heroes breathing softly on the embers of the human mind, so that they might re-ignite the hearths around which we once found safe haven. The book is the Light and the Life.

Mark Cantrell

#20. Certainly inside my heart I know degrees of difference. But I can't blame any of these men who share a common fate with me. The big folly of this trial is that it lacks the two men who are to blame for anything which is criminal, namely Hitler and Himmler.

Karl Donitz

#21. Lady Gaga? She's cool! She works really hard. When we would have our dance rehearsals, she wasn't the singer that was like, 'Oh, I'll just stand in front.' She wanted to learn everything - she was doing the dance moves. She's a good dancer.

Caity Lotz