“Why did the generals who have been so ready to term me a complaisant and incompetent yes-man fail to secure my removal? Was that all that difficult? No, that wasn't it; the truth was that nobody would have been ready to replace me, because each one knew that he would end up just as much a wreck as I.”
Excerpt from "The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Keitel" - Page 52 - by Wilhelm Keitel - 1966
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Wilhelm Keitel10
German general 1882–1946Related quotes
Carlos Drummond de Andrade (1902–1987) Brazilian poet
Quando nasci, um anjo torto
Desses que vivem na sombra
Disse: Vai Carlos! Ser gauche na vida.
(...)
Meu Deus, por que me abandonastes
se sabias que eu não era Deus,
se sabias que eu era fraco.
Mundo mundo vasto mundo,
se eu me chamasse Raimundo
seria uma rima, não seria uma solução.
Mundo mundo vasto mundo,
mais vasto é meu coração.
Eu não devia te dizer
mas essa lua
mas esse conhaque
botam a gente comovido como o diabo.
"Poema de sete faces" ["Seven-sided Poem"]
Alguma Poesia [Some Poetry] (1930)
Enya (1961) Irish singer, songwriter, and musician
Anna interview (2005)
Philip Pullman His Dark Materials trilogy
Source: His Dark Materials, The Subtle Knife (1997), Ch. 4 : Trepanning
Context: Lyra sighed; she had forgotten how roundabout Scholars could be. It was difficult to tell them the truth when a lie would have been so much easier for them to understand.
Al-Tabari book History of the Prophets and Kings
Source: History of the Prophets and Kings, Vol. 29, p. 257/258
Markiplier (1989) American YouTuber and Internet personality
"! <br class="br">Video game commentary, Outlast (September 4~8, 2013) <br class="br">Source: Outlast &#124; Part 1 &#124; THE TERROR BEGINS, Markiplier, wikipedia:Markiplier, September 4, 2013, YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8ri1v8vTTM,
