Sebastian Haffner Quotes

#1. In his own mind, it was never a matter of courage. But courage it was.

Carl Hiaasen

#2. the slow approach of the dreaded event; the confusion of the forces opposed to it and their hopeless adherence to the rules of the game, which the enemy daily infringes; the one-sidedness of the contest; the sense of hovering between "peace and stability" and "civil war

Sebastian Haffner

#3. Today matters because tomorrow can't be assumed

Dave Harvey

#4. Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription.

Isaac Newton

#5. He needs to go rub his soul against life.

Barbara Kingsolver

#6. The fulfilment of life is in the making and manifesting of impossible dreams.

Sri Chinmoy

#7. The Nazi leaders ... .treated Germany like a conquered land, a colony to be used and abused without consideration, to be exploited to the full, and its national spirit, happiness and wellbeing to be sedulously ignored

Sebastian Haffner

#8. The acceptable grieving period for the loss of my marriage and all the things it meant for my life had expired. The rest of the world had moved on. I was supposed to, too.

Christina Lauren