Bremen - Introduction to the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. The two city-state of Bremen and Bremerhaven.
"Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Bremen To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Bremen
"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Bremen "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Bremen
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Bremen If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Bremen
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Bremen Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Bremen
I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Bremen If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Bremen
Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bremen The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Bremen
The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Bremen Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Bremen
You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Bremen "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Bremen
Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Bremen "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Bremen
Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Bremen As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Bremen
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Bremen We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Bremen
