Mrs. Susan Hart Neville: "Oh, Mr. President, it is so good of you to call on me. Won't you please walk into the parlor and sit dow...n?" President Wilson: "I haven't time to sit down. Your house is on fire."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the ... radio station played a Chopin polonaise. On all the following days news bulletins were prefaced by Chopin--preludes, e...tudes, waltzes, mazurkas. The war became for me a victory, known in advance, Chopin over Hitler.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.... He does not have to struggle ... with the crowded ...pulsations of a fecund imagination. On the contrary he is almost devoid of imagination.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier ...your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Such reproductions may not interest the reader; but after all, this is my autobiography, not his; he is under no obligation to rea...d further in it; he was under none to begin.... A modest or inhibited autobiography is written without entertainment to the writer and read with distrust by the reader.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a ...spirit of collaboration and good will. I cannot believe that such a programme would be rejected by the people of this country, even if it does mean the establishment of personal contact with the dictators.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whatever may be the reason, whether it was that Hitler thought he might get away with what he had got without fighting for it, or ...whether it was that after all the preparations were not sufficiently complete--however, one thing is certain: he missed the bus.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »