Von Manstein Quotes

#1. I have never been opposed to earmarks.

Judd Gregg

#2. Strength of character and inner fortitude, however, are decisive factors. The confidence of the man in the ranks rests upon a man's strength of character.

Erich Von Manstein

#3. If Paulus's army had capitulated before the end, the Russians would have had the advantage of withdrawing forces against Paulus and against the southern front, where I had only two Romanian armies. Therefore, the resistance of the Sixth German Army, even to the death of the last man, was necessary.

Erich Von Manstein

#4. I watched Italia '90 with my Mum and Dad and my brother, you know, leaping around the house when the penalties were on ... It would be great to be part of that, to have that kind of impact.

Steven Gerrard

#5. Prussian Field Marshals do not mutiny.

Erich Von Manstein

#6. Eloquence invites us to bring some part of ourselves to the transaction.

William Zinsser

#7. I magnified, as usual, the impression any word or deed of mine could produce on others.

George Eliot

#8. Do not talk to me of goodness, of abstract justice, of nature law. Necessity is the highest law, public welfare is the highest justice.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#9. A war is not lost until you consider it lost.

Erich Von Manstein

#10. We are swimming on the face of time and all else has drowned, is drowning, or will drown.

Henry Miller

#11. My training in martial arts was kind of a crash course in how to look like a black belt. I know the moves of a black belt - my kicks, and my stretches, and my punches and all that.

William Zabka

#12. Hitler overestimated the importance of [technology]. As a result, he would count on a mere handful of assault-gun detachment or the new Tiger tanks to restore situations where only large bodies of troops could have any prospect of success.

Erich Von Manstein

#13. In such sad circumstances I but see myself exalted by my own enemies, for in order to defeat some small works of mine they try to make the whole rational medicine and anatomy fall, as if I were myself these noble disciplines.

Marcello Malpighi

#14. Based on our natural heritage as the Divine Light of God, every one of us possesses intuition ... defined as the language of the soul.

James Van Praagh

#15. I had a friend who got pregnant at age 14 and wasn't quite sure who the father was.
Her paternity test went a little something like this: "If it comes out black, its Darwin's and if it comes out white its Ray's."
This is how things were done in the trailer park.

Kate Madison

#16. He was an outsider who lived by his ability to manipulate the inside.

Joan Didion

#17. Just because I'm good at my job doesn't mean my job is good for me.

Jessica Manca

#18. No Senior military commander can for years on end expect his soldiers to lay down their lives for victory and then precipitate defeat by his own hand.

Erich Von Manstein

#19. The [chief] characteristic of Hitler's leadership [was] his over-estimation of the power of the will. [To win the war] this will had only to be translated into faith down to the youngest private soldier.

Erich Von Manstein