Top 34 Ed Heinemann Quotes
#1. I appeal to the responsibility of the blocs and the major powers, not to seek security in the arms race, but rather in a meeting for joint disarmament and arms limitations.
Gustav Heinemann
#2. Not less, but more democracy - that is the demand, that is the great goal that we have to prescribe for ourselves, and especially for our youth.
Gustav Heinemann
#3. In this life of ours we remain directed toward the relative utopia of a better world, and sensibly this can be the only model for our action.
Gustav Heinemann
#4. Ty frowned. "I don't hate all other animals." "Horses. Dogs. Chipmunks." "They're twitchy, Zane. And chipmunks have shifty eyes." "Moths?" "They have erratic flight patterns!" Zane doubled over, laughing so hard he couldn't catch his breath. Ty glared at him. "I'm glad my phobias amuse you.
Abigail Roux
#5. I like to convey the idea that art is important in everyday life.
Georgia O'Keeffe
#6. The time has come - and must come - for multilateral conversations about a secure peace in all of Europe.
Gustav Heinemann
#7. Ladies and gentlemen, on the occasion of my election I received many letters from people representing all segments of the population and all professions, especially from the younger generation, linking my inauguration with great - far too great - expectations.
Gustav Heinemann
#9. I have left the federal government and the German Bundestag; I have resigned from all my positions in the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
Gustav Heinemann
#10. You go to New York or L.A., and every waiter wants to be a writer, director or actor. But there's a common thread: everybody wants to do it because they love it.
Gillian Alexy
#11. Liberal democracy must finally become the vital element of our society.
Gustav Heinemann
#12. Everywhere, authority and tradition have to justify themselves in the face of questions.
Gustav Heinemann
#14. One of our most noble political tasks is to open up trust.
Gustav Heinemann
#15. Sexual pessimism and hostility toward the pleasures of the flesh are a legacy from the ancient world which Christianity has preserved in a special measure to this day.
Uta Ranke-Heinemann
#16. War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of the Kaiser; rather, peace is the emergency in which we all have to prove ourselves.
Gustav Heinemann
#17. Trust cannot be commanded; and yet it is also correct that the only one who earns trust is the one who is prepared to grant trust.
Gustav Heinemann
#18. The mid-stride step, never to be completed, was the worst regret anyone could have.
J.R. Ward
#19. We will exult and rejoice in you; we will extol your love more than wine;
Anonymous
#20. If you don't execute your ideas, they die." - Roger von Oech
Stephen Guise
#21. Jesus was a friend of women, the first and practically the last friend women had in the church.
Uta Ranke-Heinemann
#22. Brian Turner has given us not so much a memoir as a mediation, rendered with grace and wit and wisdom. If you want to know what modern soldiers see when they look at their world, read this book.
Larry Heinemann
#24. The secret of big and revolutionary actions also consists in discovering the tiny step that is simultaneously a strategic step, insofar as it entails additional steps in the direction of a better reality.
Gustav Heinemann
#25. You naked in my bed is even more unbelievably beautiful than I thought it would be ... and trust me I've thought about it. A lot.
Abbi Glines
#26. Ladies and gentlemen, I take office at a time in which the world is living in extreme contradictions.
Gustav Heinemann
#27. Each implementation of human effort, however minute the overall result may be, is summed up in the gesture of the sower - sometimes an awe-inspiring gesture.
Emile Galle
#28. We have to recognize that the freedom of the individual has to be protected not only from the power of the state, but even more so from economic and societal power.
Gustav Heinemann
#29. Whether it is clear or unclear to you the universe is folding as it should
Carolyn Mackler
#30. Insecurity and resignation mingle with the hope for a better order.
Gustav Heinemann
#31. Any soldier returning home must rediscover his humanity and establish a livable peace with the discovered, liberated, permanently dark places in his own heart
the darkness that is always with us.
Larry Heinemann
#32. Therefore it does not help to sneer at the imperfection of today's reality or to preach absolutes as a daily agenda.
Gustav Heinemann
#33. After the passing of irresistible music you must make do with a dripping faucet.
Jim Harrison
#34. Some fatherlands are difficult. Germany is one of them. But it is our fatherland. Here is where we live and work.
Gustav Heinemann
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