#author

Just as Napoleon was the sole authority in the state, so the husband and father was to exercise authority over his family. Unfortunately the only possible result of despotism on either level is hypocrisy. ↗

— J. Christopher Herold

#family-values #hypocrisy #napoleon #age

I do recall hearing a conversation in our home in Strausberg, between my mother and my father, where my mother sounded very angry that my cousin had let the Rödels down by having to be dragged out of Oma’s house, crying for his mother and shouting that he did not want to return to the war in Russia. Like a great many other soldiers throughout that period, he died in Russia on 5 May, 1944. He was just twenty years of age, and is buried somewhere in that country. ↗

— Alfred Nestor

#alfred-nestor #author-alfred-nestor #hitler #hitler-s-germany #nazi-party

Negative self talk costs more than even the richest person can afford. So be nice to yourself whenever possible … and know that it is always possible. ↗

— Doug Pedersen

#memoir #quotes-by-doug-pedersen #tuna-breath #age

With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure. ↗

— Art Spiegelman

#apply #author #enough #many #measure

Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney. ↗

— Mickey Spillane

#chimney #coming #down #history #i

I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book. ↗

— Mickey Spillane

#book #commercial #i #margaret #mitchell

Now I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am. ↗

— Mickey Spillane

#author #i #i am #now #writer

The Republican argument that raising the debt ceiling encourages additional future spending is logically irresponsible. The debt ceiling has to be raised to authorize spending already approved by Congress. Despite that fallacy, the GOP has been able to score political points with its argument. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#additional #already #approved #argument #authorize

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#attempt #authority #comes #effort #hold

It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat and the author got 10% of the gross. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#author #back #broadway #different #every