Top 65 Manfred Quotes
#1. Manfred's interventions, he thought, had all the characteristics of radio jamming, designed to stop anybody else talking.
Alexander McCall Smith
#2. Money is a symptom of poverty, after all, and Manfred never has to pay for anything.
Charles Stross
#3. Our existence here, he says, is a case of "not we the accidental but we the expected." Mathematician Manfred Eigen wrote in 1971, "The evolution of life, if it is based on a derivable physical principle, must be considered an inevitable process.
Kevin Kelly
#4. Oh, no, I love going into a pen of lions wearing a sign that says Edible Lamb.
Manfred
Charlaine Harris
#5. Manfred used to be a flock of pigeons
literally, his exocortex dispersed among a passel of bird brains, pecking at brightly colored facts, shitting semidigested conclusions. Being human again feels inexplicably odd. (331)
Charles Stross
#6. Buddy of yours?" Manfred asked, when he was sure his voice would be even.
"I don't think snake-shifters have buddies," Lemuel said. "They just know people they haven't tried to eat yet.
Charlaine Harris
#7. I desired you once before," said Manfred angrily, "not to name that woman: from this hour she must be a stranger to you, as she must be to me. In short, Isabella, since I cannot give you my son, I offer you myself.
Horace Walpole
#8. In 1962 I wrote for 'Jazz News,' using the pseudonym Manfred Manne, which I picked because of a jazz drummer with that name. I later dropped the 'e.'
Manfred Mann
#9. Ian did, with a blackened eye, skinned knuckles, and the terse report that Manfred had declared a set intention of going off and hanging himself, and good riddance to the fornicating son of a bitch, and might his rotten bowels gush forth like Judas Iscariot's, the traitorous, stinking wee turd.
Diana Gabaldon
#10. I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin.
Manfred Von Richthofen
#12. Shadow! or Spirit!
Whatever thou art,
Which still doth inherit
The whole or a part
Of the form of thy birth,
Of the mould of thy clay,
Which returned to the earth,
Re-appear to the day!
George Gordon Byron
#13. I grew up in South Africa, but like many people at that time, I couldn't bear living in the country. The main motivation for moving to Britain was to get away.
Manfred Mann
#15. One can become enthusiastic over anything. For a time I was delighted with bomb throwing. It gave me a tremendous pleasure to bomb those fellows from above.
Manfred Von Richthofen
#16. Behind every coincidence, every stroke of luck, and every miracle, there is inevitably a cold and calculating mind.
Ryohgo Narita
#17. The NGOs in Israel should devote more time to monitoring religious anti-Israel groups, chief among them the so-called "Christian Palestinianists."
Manfred Gerstenfeld
#18. The quality of the box matters little. Success depends upon the man who sits in it.
Manfred Von Richthofen
#19. My dear Excellency! I have not gone to war to collect cheese and eggs, but for another purpose.
Manfred Von Richthofen
#20. I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.
Manfred Von Richthofen
#21. Shia phobia or Sunni phobia ... we never hear about this. They murder each other!
Manfred Gerstenfeld
#22. Of course, with the increasing number of aeroplanes one gains increased opportunities for shooting down one's enemies, but at the same time, the possibility of being shot down one's self increases.
Manfred Von Richthofen
#23. Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals, the English. I prefer the English. Frequently their daring can only be described as stupidity. In their eyes it may be pluck and daring.
Manfred Von Richthofen
#25. It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.
Manfred Von Richthofen
#26. Now I am within thirty yards of him. He must fall. The gun pours out its stream of lead. Then it jams. Then it reopens fire. That jam almost saved his life.
Manfred Von Richthofen
#27. Everything in the air that is beneath me, especially if it is a one seater ... is lost, for it cannot shoot to the rear.
Manfred Von Richthofen
#29. Media turned against Israel was a gradual process. And it has gotten worse over the years. I think the main development was the 1982 Lebanon War.
Manfred Gerstenfeld
#30. Eastern churches simply often try to please Muslims. Why doesn't the New York Times report this?
Manfred Gerstenfeld
#31. When one has shot down one's first, second or third opponent, then one begins to find out how the trick is done.
Manfred Von Richthofen
#32. Your earthly body is after all nothing more than a dress and inside it is a finer dress, and you yourself are in this finer dress.
Manfred Kyber
#35. Another touchy point: the inability of successive Israeli governments to deal with the propaganda war. Israel has a brilliant instrument in the IDF. We have a cyber-war unit which may become the best unit in the world to fight cyber problems. On the propaganda war ... it is a large failure.
Manfred Gerstenfeld
#36. One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song.
Manfred Mann
#37. The aggressive spirit, the offensive, is the chief thing everywhere in war, and the air is no exception.
Manfred Von Richthofen
#39. The age of 18 seemed the right time to try something different in my life. Moving to the U.K. was a risk, and I was never confident that I could ever make a full-time living being a musician, but I had to try. Initially, I worked as a jazz musician in pubs or with bands.
Manfred Mann
#41. The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down.
Manfred Von Richthofen
#42. There were sometimes from forty to sixty English machines, but unfortunately the Germans were often in the minority. With them quality was more important than quantity.
Manfred Von Richthofen
#43. The duty of the fighter pilot is to patrol his area of the sky, and shoot down any enemy fighters in that area. Anything else is rubbish.
Manfred Von Richthofen
#44. All the papers contained nothing but fantastic stories about the war. However, for several months we had been accustomed to war talk. We had so often packed our service trunks that the whole thing had become tedious.
Manfred Von Richthofen
#45. In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.
Manfred Von Richthofen
#46. Journalists are divided into two groups: those who live by ethics, and those who don't.
Manfred Gerstenfeld
#47. I started shooting when I was much too far away. That was merely a trick of mine. I did not mean so much as to hit him as to frighten him, and I succeeded in catching him. He began flying curves and this enabled me to draw near.
Manfred Von Richthofen
#48. As to the black dwarfs, they wouldn't allow anyone to look into them, because what is inside them is truly horrible. That is why they want everything on Earth to be as black and dark as they are themselves.
Manfred Kyber
#49. A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.
Manfred Eigen
#50. Fight on and fly on to the last drop of blood and the last drop of fuel, to the last beat of the heart.
Manfred Von Richthofen
#51. We convinced him quickly that the possibility of war was absolutely nil and continued our festivity. On the next day we were ordered to take the field.
Manfred Von Richthofen
#53. Most extreme acts of anti-Semitism go beyond the acts of anti-Semitism by native Europeans.
Manfred Gerstenfeld
#55. It hinges on oil. Europeans feel they handled the boycott after the Yom Kippur War [1973] very badly. The Arabs need to sell oil; otherwise they cannot live.
Manfred Gerstenfeld
#56. It is a third generation anti-Semitism. First it was religious in nature. Today, the Jewish state is attacked and that is the new anti-Semitism. What they have in common is that in all versions, Jews are seen as absolute evil.
Manfred Gerstenfeld
#57. Emergence of Muslim communities in their own lands. They let in millions of people from a radically different culture and background. The Europeans have to ask themselves if all these people can be integrated. This has led to major problems. And ... I do not stereotype all Muslims.
Manfred Gerstenfeld
#58. Arabs and their allies are conducting a total war against Israel. A total war means a war of lies. The PA [Palestinian Authority] promotes lies; lying in Islam is permitted.
Manfred Gerstenfeld
#59. The issue is, the Arabs have many allies. Among the worst reactionaries in the world. No religion out of which so much murder comes as there is in certain parts of Islam.
Manfred Gerstenfeld
#61. A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
Manfred Eigen
#62. The aim of development must be neither producerism not consumerism, but the satisfaction of fundamental human needs, which are not only needs of humanity ...
Manfred Max-Neef
#63. Of course no one thought of anything except of attacking the enemy. It lies in the instinct of every German to rush at the enemy wherever he meets him, particularly if he meets hostile cavalry.
Manfred Von Richthofen
#65. As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet, but my father wished it. So my wishes were not consulted.
Manfred Von Richthofen
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