Bridgehead Quotes

#1. Credit leads a man into temptation. Cash down is the only thing that will deliver him from evil.

Solomon Northup

#2. Divide and rule. It wasn't just the British toward the Indians but all parents toward their children.

Karan Mahajan

#3. If all you do is make excuses, then that is how people see you. Make your strengths visible.

Marla Runyan

#4. Secrecy in science does not work. Withholding information does more damage to us than to our competitors.

Edward Teller

#5. Riffing on language will create wonderful effects you never intended. Which leads me to this writing advice: 'Always take credit for good stuff you didn't intend, because you'll be getting plenty of criticism in your career for bad stuff you didn't mean either.'

Roy Peter Clark

#6. As a child, I was as intrigued by the Evil Queen as I was charmed by Snow White.

Stephane Rolland

#7. One wanted fifty pairs of eyes to see with, she reflected. Fifty pairs of eyes were not enough to get round that one woman with, she thought.

Virginia Woolf

#8. What's the point of changing who you are in order to impress a woman, when your intention is to return to who you were, a person she was never attracted to in the first place?

Richelle E. Goodrich

#9. No one in al-Nahda believes that jihad is a way to impose Islam on the world. But we believe that jihad is self-control, is social and political struggle, and even military jihad is only a way to defend oneself in the case of aggression.

Rashid Al-Ghannushi

#10. As soon as he hit it, I thought I had it. But I lost it when it went into the lights. I did my best.

Danny Bautista

#11. But what I didn't recognize when I was much younger was this sort of ... when you're on, when you're really on, go at it.

Tony Gilroy

#12. If you had to pick between being moral and successful, obviously I'd choose to be moral. However if you can choose both, will you choose both? I'd say definitely.

Chade-Meng Tan

#13. Anastasia," I say, in good-bye. "Christian," she answers, her voice soft.

E.L. James

#14. I'm a serious optimist. I come from a country where you have little to be hopeful for, and so you have to always be an optimist.

Leymah Gbowee

#15. FerryRat7734: What's vertical?
SnakePlissken: You could just say,What's up?

Michael Grant

#16. In this respect I expressed my doubts about using the Corps directly on the South coast, to form a bridgehead for the Army - as the area immediately behind the coast was now covered with obstacles. These doubts were accepted by Hitler.

Kurt Student