Hendred Quotes & Sayings

Hold summer in your hand, pour summer in a glass, a tiny glass of course, — Ray Bradbury

Mrs Hendred was a very pretty woman of great good-nature and much less than commonsense. — Georgette Heyer

Be blissful and enjoy your life; do not let yourself become obsessed with anything. Determine to use the rest of your life to benefit others as much as possible. — Thubten Yeshe

There is something in obstinacy which differs from every other passion. Whenever it fails, it never recovers, but either breaks like iron, or crumbles sulkily away, like a fractured arch. Most other passions have their periods of fatigue and rest, their sufferings and their cure; but obstinacy has no resource, and the first wound is mortal. — Samuel Johnson

Fools carry their daggers in their open mouths. — Josh Billings

Mrs Hendred did not like the people around her to be unhappy. Even the sight of a housemaid crying with the pain of the toothache made her feel low, for misery had no place in her comfortable existence; and when it obtruded itself on her notice it dimmed the warm sunshine in which she basked, and quite ruined her belief in a world where everyone was contented, and affluent, and cheerful. — Georgette Heyer

You can always think that we're old and not innovative, but there is no company that can limp on for 139 years without being creative and having the genes to change. — Hans Vestberg

I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd. — H.G.Wells

You think every functioning couple knows themselves and expresses what they want and hears what the other is saying perfectly? That we're not pumping everyone else full of prejudices and fantasies with no connection to reality? The only thing holding relationships together is intention. It's not a matter of fact or reason. We get to say what happened because we're the only ones who care. — Tony Tulathimutte