Bessy Quotes & Sayings

You've gone mad. What's driven you to this nonsense?"
"You have," he snarled. "You, with your pretty gray eyes and your smile and the way you speak your mind. The sound of your laugh, your tears when something makes you sad." He closed his eyes for a moment, trying to imagine anyone else who had ever made him feel the way he did when he was with her. Emptiness looked back at him. There wasn't anyone else. "You're the only woman I've ever ... liked. — Suzanne Enoch

There are specific situations so powerful that they can overwhelm our inherent predispositions. — Malcolm Gladwell

Want to go to West Virginia and risk life and limb with me?"
Zane smirked and gave a single nod. "Sounds like fun. — Abigail Roux

The ideological distance between Jim Webb and Bertrand Russell can be measured in light years. An author who reaches both of them exerts something like universal appeal. — Christopher Buckley

The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power. — Paul Wellstone

Fishing is not like billiards, in which it is possible to attain a disgusting perfection. — Arthur Ransome

I wonder he is not afraid to be alone with himself." "Men sometimes are so," said her husband. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

God is just, and our lots are well portioned out by Him, although none but He knows the bitterness of our souls.
Margaret to Bessy re: trials & burdens we all carry — Elizabeth Gaskell

I only mean, Bessy, there's good and bad in everything in this world; and as you felt the bad up here, I thought it was but fair you should know the bad down there. — Elizabeth Gaskell

Do I not know anxiety, though I go about well-dressed, and have food enough? Oh, Bessy, God is just, and our lots are well portioned out by Him, although none but He knows the bitterness of our souls. — Elizabeth Gaskell

Bessy, don't be impatient with your life, whatever it is - or may have been. Remember who gave it you, and made it what it is! — Elizabeth Gaskell

Extend your "best before" date by living a youthful life. — Lorii Myers

Fools will always break out o' bounds. — Elizabeth Gaskell

It would be very easy to drool with sentimentality over the Ryder Cup. But, at the end of the day, it is simply two teams trying to knock seven bells out of each other, in the nicest possible way. — Peter Alliss

I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car. — Owen Paterson

Have I not care? Do I not know anxiety, though I go about well-dressed, and have food enough? Oh, Bessy, God is just, and our lots are well portioned out by Him, although none but He knows the bitterness of our souls.' 'I — Elizabeth Gaskell