Herron Quotes & Sayings

I'll do that," he said and then whispered in my ear: "You couldn't give me a wee nip of something Master could you? I'm just feeling a bit weak. I'll be all right if I get a wee nip to bring me round." "I will surely." I said. "Paddy all right?" "The very thing Master. Just a nip now," demonstrating with finger and thumb wide apart. — Colm Herron

all the work's done low on the food chain. Everyone else just has meetings.' In — Mick Herron

Unfriend people who do not post to Facebook or engage with anyone else. You'll find your posts start getting reach they never did before. Why? Facebook only releases your posts to a few people at first and watches what they do with it. — Robert Scoble

Things weren't easy or perfect, and the future seemed shaky at times, but life wasn't wrapped up in neat little bows. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Short-term, hot fling staying at your house?"
She couldn't help the smile. "Not lately. As far as I remember. If there's one there now, it's because he found out where I hide the key. — Rachael Herron

The time you save is just what makes the difference between trivia and culture. — James Herron

The dangerous consequence of the dominance myth is that owners try to physically dominate their dog in an attempt to change the dog's behavior. This "solution" is likely to cause the exact opposite of the result they want. A recent study by veterinary behaviorist Dr. Meghan Herron found that confrontational techniques are, in fact, more likely to escalate aggression, resulting in more dog bites to owners. — American College Of Veterinary Behaviorists

This thing couldn't have fallen apart faster if you'd bought it at Ikea, and — Mick Herron

And it's not even strange that it feels the way it's always felt like the place we belong to. Like home. — Jacqueline Woodson

as every office worker knows, it's not the hope that kills you. It's knowing it's the hope that kills you that kills you. — Mick Herron

office jokers were a crime in progress - — Mick Herron

But there was nothing, and never would be. Learning that was one thing. Living with it, another entirely. Careful — Mick Herron

She'd read a lot of discussions about 9/11, obviously, but contributions from structural engineers had been conspicuous by their absence. And — Mick Herron

Because we both know the tide's turning. The decent people in this country are sick to death of being held hostage by mad liberals in Brussels, and the sooner we take control over our own future, our own borders - — Mick Herron

Fresh pain, exposing old pain — Lauren Kate

Once upon a time, there was a boy who learned to read at the age of 5. This changed his life. Owing to the adventure tales he read, he discovered a way to escape from the poor house, the poor country, and the poor reality in which he lived. — Mario Vargas-Llosa

Why did some people hear the voice, loud and clear, while others just floated from thing to thing, from person to person, never completely fitting in, never entirely at home. — Rachael Herron

I do not dislike teaching when the boys behave themselves. — Helen Herron Taft

He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life. — Pierre Corneille

Half of the future is buried in the past. That was the prevailing Service culture. Hence — Mick Herron

Maybe you're not his type." Michael said
"Oh, now you're just being insulting. — Rachel Caine

Regent's Park was looking to the Met for an injection of integrity, it was in serious danger of an irony meltdown. — Mick Herron

It's just that the last thing Adam ever said
to me.......I remember it all so clear....'Can you go with me, Jordy? I'm not so
scared when you're with me.' And then they wouldn't even let me be with him
when he......when he....... He was so scared, Mama. I wasn't there. — Grasshopper

That was the true purpose of Slough House. It was a way of losing people without having to get rid of them, sidestepping legal hassle and tribunal threats. — Mick Herron

Well the artists that inspire me were, first of all I would say Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, John Holt, Alton Ellis, Errol Dunkley, Delroy Wilson and Dennis Brown you know. They have unique voice and sweet melody and you know, good lyrics those time yeh. The music was very nice in that time still seen, because you find that even the musical part, the musicians concentrate more on the melody than everything, more than how they concentrate on the money that time you Know — Gregory Isaacs

New faces have more authority than accustomed ones. — Euripides

That man loved me so hard I knew I'd never do half of what I should to deserve it. And that was the point. He said I never had to do a thing to make him love me. He just did. He just loved me. — Rachael Herron

Is it really true... that our aim as historians is in some sense to recapture past reality, "to retrieve the truth about the past?" If so, what do "past reality" and "the truth about the past" mean? How does the historian's understanding of "reality" and "truth" differ - as most surely it does - from that of the direct participant? And what implications does this difference have for what we do as historians? It is not likely that questions of this sort will ever be finally answered. Yet clearly we must keep asking such questions if we are to maintain the highest levels of honesty and self-awareness concerning our work as historians. — Paul A. Cohen

Everybody in those days was a foreigner, no matter where they were born; as industrial modernization had its way with people and places, no one was native to the transformation of the United States from an agricultural economy to the foremost industrial power in the world--the factory being both the cause and the effect of an act of becoming, the likes of which nobody had ever seen before. — Jerry Herron

The possession of power over others is inherently destructive both to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised. — George Davis Herron

When we were at peace, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now there's a war, so Democrats want to raise taxes. When there was a surplus, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now that there is a mild recession, Democrats want to raise taxes. — Ann Coulter

Sometimes when we aren't looking, the holiness comes breaking through like a rainbow. — Madeleine L'Engle

[S]tart at the turn of the last century, in 1901, with the celebration of Detroit's bicentennial. That was the Detroit that came before--before all the racket that attended the making of the modern world, which happened here first and faster than anywhere else on this planet. — Jerry Herron

Lamb said, 'If you had issues with him, I could have spoken to HR. Arranged an intervention.' He tapped Moody's shoulder with his foot. 'Breaking his neck without going through your line manager, that shit stays on your record. — Mick Herron

God gives us all kinds, and we just gots to love 'em however they — Rita Herron

From its outside wall half a luggage trolley protruded: platform 93/4 was where the Hogwarts Express docked. River — Mick Herron

No man has ever ruled other men for their own good. — George Davis Herron

A monument of grace, A sinner saved by blood; The streams of love I trace Up to the Fountain, God; And in His sacred bosom see Eternal thoughts of Love to me. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Detroit is just like everywhere else, only more so--a lot more so. — Jerry Herron

Too many people, once they reach a comfortable position in life, forget the important role writers like Hammett - who dropped out of high school in his first year to work supporting his family - or Howard - struggling to break into the pulps with absolutely no professional advice and little encouragement - play in literature, just as they tend to ignore the role the working man and woman play in society. — Don Herron

...Americans didn't stick to cities, which makes us different from the people in other industrialized countries. We no sooner arrived in town, turning those towns into great mid-century metropolises, than we decided to take off for the green world beyond, so that by the 1970 Census, we had become the first suburban nation in the history of the world. And Detroit led the way, with a population curve up and down just like everywhere else, but with its urban decline a lot steeper over the past sixty years - so typical a place that it only looks like an exception. — Jerry Herron

Everyone wanted a life less ordinary. And only a tiny minority ever got it, and even they probably didn't appreciate it much. — Mick Herron

He still read copy as if it were Braille; bumps in the language letting him know when — Mick Herron