Karl Benz famous quotes

My first customer was a lunatic. My second had a death wish.
-- Karl Benz

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I believe that decisions about the timing and manner of death belong to the individual as a human right. I believe it is wrong to withhold medical methods of terminating life painlessly and swiftly when an individual has a rational and clear-minded sustained wish to end his or her life.

An eternity of wishing to speak directly to my Creator - I thought in despair - and this is how He finally contacts me? Through AOL Instant Messenger?

You aren't what I expected. I wish you were. It'd be so much easier.

These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.

I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays.

It's always something to get one's wish, even if the wish is a failure.

I wish I came from a more pure place. I don't have something to say from the bottom of my soul. I just know how to take stuff I like and repackage it in a slightly different way.

From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.

Beginning with the first bite, and for every bite after, that try to chew ten times.

My first customer was a lunatic. My second had a death wish.