Westerwelle Guido Quotes

#1. A lucky man ... is a man who was lucky once, and after that, he learned a thing or two about investment. p 553

Eleanor Catton

#2. I was never a member of the peace movement or a pacifist, nor was I ever carried away from a demonstration outside a military barracks. Perhaps that's why I don't feel the need to compensate for anything.

Guido Westerwelle

#3. I sometimes read that it's time for German democracy to finally grow up. I don't see it as a sign of maturity if we treat military missions as something normal.

Guido Westerwelle

#4. FIND WHAT YOU REALLY CARE ABOUT AND LIVE A LIFE THAT SHOWS IT.

Kate Wolf

#5. The fact that someone didn't experience the war itself doesn't mean that he doesn't perceive its consequences.

Guido Westerwelle

#6. I'm completely opposed to the idea of becoming accustomed to foreign military campaigns.

Guido Westerwelle

#7. After the German abstention at the UN, Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle commented that Germany doesn't always have to stand on the side of its traditional allies. Berlin can look for new partners all over the world.

Donald Rumsfeld

#8. You need to calm down and remember that everyone grieves differently. Doesn't mean they don't care. You don't judge people in pain, and you damn sure don't lash out at them when they've lost what Syn has!

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#9. Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.

Carl Jung

#10. Military missions are not democratic development aid.

Guido Westerwelle

#11. That's basically what I'm doing when I'm tapping them - getting my toes to the end of my shoes.

Nomar Garciaparra

#12. No age has been more prone to confuse the sin with the sinner, not by hating the sinner along with the sin but by loving the sin along with the sinner. We often use "compassion" as an equivalent for moral relativism.

Peter Kreeft

#13. Paper is like Joyce Carol Oates: white.

Caryl Churchill

#14. Military missions cannot be a normal tool of politics, but instead must remain the great exception.

Guido Westerwelle

#15. As foreign minister I cannot allow myself to be guided by emotions.

Guido Westerwelle

#16. The truth is, deep ends cause drowning. Baptisms by fire cause third-degree burns.

David Mitchell

#17. The markets were now run by technology, but the technologists were still treated like tools. Nobody bothered to explain the business to them, but they were forced to adapt to its demands and exposed to its failures - which was, perhaps, why there had been so many more conspicuous failures.

Michael Lewis

#18. As a minister, I would rather be criticized for thoroughly weighing the options, and sometimes even voicing my doubts, than to be reproached for recklessly sending German soldiers into combat.

Guido Westerwelle