Fanny Lewald quotes

“I fought windmills with such heavy weapons that I risked dislocating my arm ...”
-- Fanny Lewald

Source : Fanny Lewald, Hanna Ballin Lewis (1992). “The Education of Fanny Lewald: An Autobiography”, p.301, SUNY Press

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“There is a haphazard sort of doing good, which is nothing but temperamental pleasure-seeking.”
-- Fanny Lewald

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“To will the impossible is usually a sin of indolence.”
-- Fanny Lewald

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“In the consciousness of belonging together, in the sense of constancy, resides the sanctity, the beauty of matrimony, which helps us to endure pain more easily, to enjoy happiness doubly, and to give rise to the fullest and finest development of our nature.”
-- Fanny Lewald

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“Where you go, I go, What you see, I see, I know I'd never be me without the security, Are your loving arms keeping me from harm Put your hands in my hand & we'll stand.”

“When I was fired from my post as General of the Fighter Arm, I was to give proof that this jet was a superior fighter. And that's when we did it. I think we did it.”

“Do you ever just put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that's what love is like; everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but for some reason you just keep going.”

“I knew we needed a weapon to break through to the US market, and it had to be something different, something that nobody else was making.”

“Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power.”

“Those who travel the high road of humility are not troubled by heavy traffic.”

“I do not buy repentance at so heavy a cost as a thousand drachmae.”

“I guess the worst snow was the Kennedy inauguration in 1960. Heavy snow.”

“I always go heavy and I always go to failure.”

“I was always the second heavy.”