Chesil Bank Quotes & Sayings

We need to stop telling the story about the woman who stayed home, passive and dependent, waiting for her man. She wasn't sitting around waiting. She was busy. She still is. — Rebecca Solnit

I let people off the hook too easily. — William Boyd

More is spent in a single month [in the U.S.] fighting the war on drugs than all monies ever expended domestically or internationally fighting slavery from its inception. Per month, we spend more on the drug war than we ever have trying to free slaves. — Mira Sorvino

I feel like the knight in an ancient romance as, wrapped in his shining armor, after performing a thousand astonishing feats throughout the world, he meets a ragged, starving herdsman, who, never leaving his pasture, subdues and controls horrible beasts with his bare hands, and with prodigious courage. — Elena Ferrante

It put me upon reflecting how little repining there would be among mankind at any condition of life, if people would rather compare their condition with those that were worse, in order to be thankful, than be always comparing them with those which are better, to assist their murmurings and complaining. — Daniel Defoe

Sometimes you catch something specific like the screams and cries of people trying to hold on to each other before they're swallowed into other, bigger noises.
This is what it sound like when the world ends. — Courtney Summers

I think there are other alternatives there than hitting a child, striking the child. — Sean Hannity

Remember-doubts may check pride, but too much doubt will keep you from doing what must be done. — M.L. Forman

Unfortunately we - and I'm speaking not for Latin America but for Mexico because that's where I come from - we still, I think, are a little bit macho. Not that we only live in a macho world, but we also think as a macho world; even the women, you know? The women in Mexico, because that's the way we were raised. — Kate Del Castillo

Poor people do not go on holiday; they go home. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Were you afraid Dad wouldn't come back?" "I didn't think about it. I made myself not think about it." She laughed. "I'm good at that. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

You have shared your secret. I think you will find it to be an unburdening in many other ways. You have very considerable natural advantages. You have nothing to fear from life. A day will come when these recent unhappy years may seem no more than that cloud-stain over there upon Chesil Bank. You shall stand in sunlight - and smile at your own past sorrows. — John Fowles

I love working with a stylist but I also love having personal relationships with designers. A stylist is great for pulling together an entire outfit, accessories included, and for shaking me out of my comfort zone. — Elizabeth Banks