"There are no desperate situations, there are only desperate people."

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Source : "Die Deutschen gepanzerten Truppen bis 1945". Book by Oskar Munzel, 1965.

Heinz Guderian

#People Quotes #Historical Quotes #Desperate Quotes

“It's hard to bullshit the ocean. It's not listening, you know what I mean.”
“There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.”
“His markings, month by month, became more beautiful, lines of autumn bracken colours with shapes which reminded me of currents on a quiet sea. True that at times his head, because of his youth, looked scraggy, even his body sometimes looked scraggy, but suddenly for some reason like the change of light, or of mood, he looked his potential. This was going to be a champion cat.”
“Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything.”

Source : Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.41, Macmillan
“I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called conservative, political movement in this country is not a trend towards the future but a reaction to this very broad shift that we are undergoing.”
“I asked my vet what kind of dog he'd get. He told me, 'I'd get a Chihuahua, because when it died, I wouldn't care.”
“On movies, you have a lot of stylists that get things too pretty. Everything gets steamed and ironed. It's just not the way we really behave.”
“Love's a recurring theme through my work.”

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