Wittenberg Quotes

#1. If I go back home to Wittenberg, I'll lie down in a coffin and give the maggots a fat doctor to eat.

Martin Luther

#2. The second class status of marriage became one of the principal issues in the Reformation. Martin Luther, the Augustinian friar, had barely posted his ninety-five theses on the door of the church in Wittenberg when he took himself a wife.

Germaine Greer

#3. We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest, and palliated by all the artifices of self-deceit, gives us time to form distinctions in our own favor

Samuel Johnson

#4. If your stories are all about your products and services, that's not storytelling. It's a brochure. Give yourself permission to make the story bigger.

Jay Baer

#5. Truth: Rape does indeed happen between girlfriend and boyfriend, husband and wife. Men who force their girlfriends or wives into having sex are committing rape, period. The laws are blurry, and in some countries marital rape is legal. But it still is rape.

Patti Feuereisen

#6. For madness must be punished in a world in which mere sanity is prized. The revenge of the ordinary upon the gifted.

Joyce Carol Oates

#7. Simply setting targets to bring more "women into management" does not help leaders learn how to manage across genders; rather, it usually builds a solid wall of resistance among the male majority within a company.

Avivah Wittenberg-Cox

#8. The interpretation of facts in a certain way stimulates other scientists' thoughts.

Robert Barany

#9. He taught me things in the space of two minutes that the span of my lifetime did not.

Sally Thorne

#10. There is no spirituality without ethics

Jonathan Wittenberg

#11. We walk toward the training room, Shauna updating Zeke on her week at the fence
Two days ago the idiot I was on patrol with started freaking out, swearing he saw something out there ... Turns out it was a plastic bag.

Veronica Roth

#12. I'm not alive to be right. I'm here to care, to heal, to understand

Jonathan Wittenberg

#13. Rather than being about what foods to avoid and why, The Essential Good Food Guide is an introduction or a reminder of what good food is and what to do with it.

Margaret M. Wittenberg

#14. All that (Mr. Bush) wants is Iraqi oil.

Nelson Mandela

#15. Rational order in the technological world can be as fascinating as the fetishes of a Congo witch-doctor - scientific phenomena become significant images.

Eduardo Paolozzi

#16. Under pressure, the mouth speaks when the brain is disengaged, and, sometimes unwittingly, the gearshift is in reverse when it should be in neutral.

Henry Ford

#17. Buford didn't dress for respect, he earned it. He didn't try to get his name in the newspapers, instead he led with deeds that caused his men to follow his guidon with confidence and the full expectation of success.

Eric J. Wittenberg

#18. Louis Armstrong said you have to live a life. And that's right. If you don't live a life, you don't got nothin' to come out your horn.

Sally Field

#19. The realism frightens me more than the bubble gum-y, heightened stuff.

Chloe Sevigny

#20. Now, national conventions are largely an excuse for companies and party leaders to throw parties for delegates to attend, to network and have a good time.

Bob Barr

#21. I've belched a lot more since I had gall bladder surgery. I don't know why.

Beth Ditto