Peiper Quotes

#1. History is always written by the victor, and the histories of the losing parties belong to the shrinking circle of those who were there.

Joachim Peiper

#2. Interdependence is a choice only independent people can make

Stephen R. Covey

#3. Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.

Epictetus

#4. I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character.

James Taylor

#5. I was a National-Socialist and I remain one ... The Germany of today is no longer a great nation, it has become a province of Europe.

Joachim Peiper

#6. Being disabled gave me an immense advantage. People are kinder to you. It puts you on a different level than if you go into a situation whole and secure.

Dorothea Lange

#7. Her letter proved it didn't matter how much time we had; it mattered what we did with it. Love was one thing time could never take away from us.

Steph Nuss

#8. Stride with a proud disdain through the swamp of human inadmissibility.

Joachim Peiper

#9. Dioscorides, an expert on medicinal plants, had ample material on which to base a pioneering treatise on bubonic plague.

Stacy Schiff

#10. When the time to die comes, it does not matter how and when it happens.

Albert Camus

#11. We look at each other for a moment and for once I feel awkward. It's not that I'm not into humility; I've just never had to practise it.

Melina Marchetta

#12. Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings.

Ray Kurzweil

#13. Golf tips are like aspirin. One may do you good, but if you swallow the whole bottle you will be lucky to survive.

Harvey Penick

#14. For me the experience of writing is really an experience of losing control. ... I think it's very much like dreaming or like surfing. You go out there and wait for a wave, and when it comes it takes you somewhere and you don't know where it'll go.

Margaret Atwood

#15. Did you know that, if you visualise, you can actually hug on the phone?

Shelley Long

#16. Lysander saw that they were displaying all the timeworn and conventional feints and poor disguises of lovers meeting in a public place and hoping the real nature of their relationship would be invisible.

William Boyd

#17. Imagine yourself acclaimed, a decorated national hero, an idol to millions of desperate people, then within six months, condemned to death by hanging.

Joachim Peiper

#18. Being needed was a handy trick. It could fill you up so full you never even noticed all the places that were empty.

Deb Caletti