Victor Klemperer Quotes

#1. Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.

Rick Warren

#2. To me, the word 'workaholic' is a negative word.

Trinny Woodall

#3. In the war I was subject to military law, but subject to law nevertheless; now I am at the mercy of an arbitrary power.

Victor Klemperer

#4. Newspapers are read differently now [ ... ] Between the lines.

Victor Klemperer

#5. Does one unceasingly talk about a thousand years and enemies destroyed, if one is certain of these thousand years and this annihilation?

Victor Klemperer

#6. If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Christina Stead

#7. National Socialism adapts Fascism, Bolshevism, Americanism, works it all into Teutonic Romanticism.

Victor Klemperer

#8. Shepley threw a french fry at his cousin. "Get your lips outta my girl's ear, Trav!" "Networking! I'm networking!

Jamie McGuire

#9. Can't nobody make us do a thang once we git hard against it. And if anybody don't like that, you don't have to explain a thang to'm. All you got to say is, 'I'm Charlotte Simmons, and I don't hold with thangs like 'at.' And they'll respect you for that.

Tom Wolfe

#10. We hear a lot about Palestine now; it does not appeal to us. Anyone who goes there exchanges nationalism and narrowness for nationalism and narrowness.

Victor Klemperer

#11. Academics love the semicolon; their hankering after logic demands a division which is more emphatic than a comma, but not quite as absolute a demarcation as a full stop.

Victor Klemperer

#12. Whatever was about, whoever I had seen, and heard rocking, and who had passed me by just now, whoever had opened the locked door was not 'real'. No. But what was 'real'? At that moment I began to doubt my own reality.

Susan Hill

#13. Socialism has now become completely or almost completely identical with Bolshevism; that

Victor Klemperer

#14. I turn my negatives into my positives because one of my mottos is, 'Yesterday's history, tomorrow's a mystery,' meaning that you can't go back and change anything in the past.

Vanilla Ice

#15. I am not a dictator, I have only simplified democracy.

Victor Klemperer

#16. I only have the quite childish horror of the grave and of nothingness

Victor Klemperer

#17. I had given up the church, more because of its complicity with slavery than from a full understanding of the foolishness of its creeds.

Lucy N. Colman

#18. To me there's no real difference between a fortune teller or a fortune cookie and any of the organized religions. They're all equally valid or invalid, really. And equally helpful.

Woody Allen

#19. When I get high anxiety, I vomit. My mom was so stressed out. Then I found out I was staying in John Mayer's old dorm room, and I had a nice roommate. That completely brought me down. I was completely comfortable at Berklee.

Charlie Puth

#20. Please call me Eddie if it will help you to relax.

Douglas Adams

#21. I like to catch fish and release them. I probably haven't killed a fish that I've caught in sport fishing for 20 years. No reason to kill it. You know, just take it and release it.

Jack Nicklaus

#22. O lands! O all so dear to me - what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is.

Walt Whitman

#23. They have over-cultivated national rhetoric [ ... ] they will have to undertake something.

Victor Klemperer

#24. If he ever frosted his hair blue, he'd look like a gas burner.

Ilona Andrews

#25. I admire American literature, both contemporary and classic - 'Moby-Dick' is just about the best book in the world - and I admire British literature for its insistence on dealing with social class. It may have been an influence.

Per Petterson