Heinrichshaus Quotes & Sayings

Technically it was a victory for the British, who attacked the patriot fortifications but a Pyrrhic victory if ever there was: out of 2,200 British soldiers 1,034 were killed or wounded, including one in nine of all the officers the British lost in the whole war. — Geoffrey Wheatcroft

A man who can't bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them. — Stephen King

Sassy, that lady totally wanted to scramble your eggs. — Mariana Zapata

I wouldn't like Greece to stay recession. I do think that everything has to be undertaken to reconnect with growth. — Jean-Claude Juncker

ELAINE: Jerry, it's B.O. JERRY: But the whole car smells. ELAINE: So? JERRY: So when somebody has B.O., the "O" usually stays with the "B." Once the "B" leaves, the "O" goes with it. — Scott Sedita

On Egdon there was no absolute hour of the day. The time at any moment was a number of varying doctrines professed by the different hamlets, some of them having originally grown up from a common root, and then become divided by secession, some having been alien from the beginning. West Egdon believed in Blooms-End time, East Egdon in the time of the Quiet Woman Inn. Grandfer Cantle's watch had numbered many followers in years gone by, but since he had grown older faiths were shaken. Thus, the mummers having gathered here from scattered points, each came with his own tenets on early and late; and they waited a little longer as a compromise. — Thomas Hardy

Clearly, naming the major figures in the tradition had become a tradition in itself. — Gregory Woods

If I have ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking. — Patrick Rothfuss

The solid, middle-class values of hard work, responsibility, family, community, and faith my father talked about tirelessly from Iowa to New York, he lived at home. The hopes he had for his family and for me, he had for all Americans. I think Americans understood this. — Chelsea Clinton

Being a parent is very important to me. — Diana Ross

While you should be friendly with all people, select with great care those whom you wish to have close to you. They will be your safeguards in situations where you may vacillate between choices, and you in turn may save them. — Gordon B. Hinckley

At a rear window I hear the heart-rendering cries of my captive kind, plus a lot of yammering from the idiotic dogs, who will raise about the same ruckus for a simple rabies shot as they would for the end of the world.
--Midnight Louie — Carole Nelson Douglas

Wild Woman teaches women when not to act "nice" about protecting their soulful lives. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Truth may be stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer. — Frederic Raphael

My life is constant revision but it's not revision, a lot of it is for the first time. — Robin Ince