Hellriegels Restaurant Quotes & Sayings

Villains are fun to play. — Edi Gathegi

Don't knock the ball in the stands, keep it in your hands! — Bill Russell

I find something repulsive about the idea of vicarious redemption. I would not throw my numberless sins onto a scapegoat and expect them to pass from me; we rightly sneer at the barbaric societies that practice this unpleasantness in its literal form. There's no moral value in the vicarious gesture anyway. As Thomas Paine pointed out, you may if you wish take on a another man's debt, or even to take his place in prison. That would be self-sacrificing. But you may not assume his actual crimes as if they were your own; for one thing you did not commit them and might have died rather than do so; for another this impossible action would rob him of individual responsibility. So the whole apparatus of absolution and forgiveness strikes me as positively immoral, while the concept of revealed truth degrades the concept of free intelligence by purportedly relieving us of the hard task of working out the ethical principles for ourselves. — Christopher Hitchens

Why should be elite, music? Excuse me. Music must be for everybody. — Luciano Pavarotti

Infantry Marines live only and forever in the real world. — Nathaniel Fick

Like the experience of warfare, the endurance of grave or terminal illness involves long periods of tedium and anxiety, punctuated by briefer interludes of stark terror and pain. — Christopher Hitchens

Let me be content with myself to the degree that my capacity to serve others is present, yet discontent with myself to the degree that I may still like to grow in better service for others. — Criss Jami

Pointed criticism, if accurate, often gives the artist an inner sense of relief. The criticism that damages is that which disparages, dismisses, ridicules, or condemns. — William Ernest Henley

Their most telling improvement involved a fundamental parameter: population size of the hosts. — David Quammen

Sometimes it rose to an aching chord that caught the throat, saying this is the safety, this is warmth, this is the Whole. — John Steinbeck