Richard Overy Quotes

#1. Goering was a contradictory [and] complex ... character.

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#2. But paper and ink have conjuring abilities of their own. arrangements of lines and shapes, of letters and words on a series of pages make a world we can dwell and travel in.

Lynda Barry

#3. Goering's ideas betray a consistent desire to create something essentially new, implying all the historic virtues, but unlike [anything] of the past.

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#4. Many of the political jokes that circulated in the Third Reich were directed at Goering. He collected them [all] in a large leather notebook and delighted in re-telling most of them to his friends.

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#5. I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.

Adam McKay

#6. The beauty of interdisciplinary conversation is that the mode of expression is essentially different for each practitioner, even if ideas are shared.

Sarah Hall

#7. Goering was known to wear togas, fur coats and faux-medieval hunting outfits.

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#8. A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.

Boethius

#9. Our attitude in the face of life's challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.

Tara Brach

#10. Goering got into endless arguments with other officers [and] he did not like routine work.

Richard Overy

#11. A son of the Immaculate Heart of Mary ... is a man who unceasingly expends himself to light the fire of divine love in the world. Nothing stops him.

Anthony Mary Claret

#12. Goering appeared at times to be all things to all men.

Richard Overy

#13. You cannot hate what you do not know. They do not know you, therefore they are incapable of hating you. Perhaps I might concede they hate the idea of you. But if this is true, then your task is a simple one. You merely have to show them that you are not that idea.

Tom King

#14. We must proceed with a full realization that no statute enacted by man can repeal the inexorable laws of nature.

Warren G. Harding

#15. When the intellect and affections are in harmony; when intellectual consciousness is calm and deep; inspiration will not be confounded with fancy.

Margaret Fuller

#16. Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

D.H. Lawrence

#17. Hitler could not tolerate too much social contact.

Richard Overy