Quotes About Hessians

#1. Yonder are the Hessians. They were bought for seven pounds and tenpence a man. Are you worth more? Prove it. Tonight the American flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow!

John Stark

#2. that August an ominous and unprecedented British armada of 450 ships and boats carrying forty-five thousand British soldiers and sailors, as well as the rented Germanic troops known as the Hessians (of Headless Horseman fame), assembled in New York Harbor

Sarah Vowell

#3. Not everyone is born a great leader, but anyone can foster core leadership competencies for themselves and become actionable, effective leaders.

Ravinder Tulsiani

#4. Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness.

Michael Pollan

#5. You aren't responsible for what other people do, good or bad. Everyone is just making the choices they think will help them get by.

Alexandra Bracken

#6. Liking an author may be as involuntary and improbable as falling in love.

C.S. Lewis

#7. An act of mastery is mastery itself.

Tehya Sky

#8. To win by one is enough.

Winston Churchill

#9. When I was playing football, I was getting up to 240 pounds, and they wanted me to get to 260.

Bill Fagerbakke

#10. I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

E. E. Cummings

#11. The first point is always to believe in it when you go on court and then you have the chances to win.

Martina Hingis

#12. By believing in an imaginary invisible supernatural entity, humans may become good citizens. But this is not religion. This is merely an illusion of religion.

Abhijit Naskar

#13. And still, what a risk he'd taken. The woman was like an amateur car bomb: you never knew when she would explode or who she would take down with her when she did.

Margaret Atwood

#14. People prefer to get what they want rather than what they deserve.

Julian Barnes

#15. The thing that all sports have in common is that they have no fantasy elements, which is a little weird.

Jesse Schell

#16. Rather than relaxing and enjoying who we are and what we're doing, we are comparing ourselves with an ideal and trying to make up for the difference.

Tara Brach