Brigadiers Quotes & Sayings

Odd, what a strange thing trust was. A week or so ago, she'd never have trusted Mr. Clark, not for the slightest instant. In that time, little had changed. He was still a blackmailer, still a forger. He was likely even still a liar.
But he'd saved her last night, and now they knew things of each other - things that seemed more important than such details as the name he'd been born with, or the nature of his revenge. He knew she had nightmares about the lock hospital; she knew he'd been in a fire brigade in Strasbourg. — Courtney Milan

The purpose of words is to convey ideas. When the ideas are grasped, the words are forgotten. — Jayne Bicker

The wrong kind of praise creates self-defeating behavior. The right kind motivates students to learn. — Carol S. Dweck

A broadsheet obituarist once pointed out to me that veteran soldiers die by rank. First to go are the generals, admirals and air marshals, then the brigadiers, then a bit of a gap and the colonels and wing commanders and passed-over majors, then a steady trickle of captains and lieutenants. As they get older and rarer, so the soldiers are mythologised and grow ever more heroic, until finally drummer boys and under-age privates are venerated and laurelled with honours like ancient field marshals. There is something touching about that. — A.A. Gill

A question like "do you love me?" was an itch our doctors told us not to scratch. — Shane Koyczan

How did a child of ten find out about a three and a half hundred years old children's show?! — Meinos Kaen

Of two evils we must always choose the least. — Thomas A Kempis

He who saw that everything depended on himself alone, who decided the fortune of individuals and nations, was happiest when thinking of that day on which he would lay aside his own greatness. — Seneca.