It occurred to me that the quiet in the suburbs had nothing to do with peace.
– Melissa Bank
Related Quotes:
- We’re sorry. It’s not us. It’s the monster. The bank isn’t a man. The bank isn’t like a man.Yes, but the bank is only made of men. – John Steinbeck
- The peace in the homes is the peace in the towns.The peace in the towns is the peace in the nation.The peace in the nation is the peace in the world. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Sometimes, there’s no one around to tell you to be quiet… to be very, very quiet. Sometimes you need to be quiet when you’re all alone. – Jay Asher
- The river of my village doesn’t make you think about anything.When you’re at its bank you’re only at its bank. – Alberto Caeiro
- You want to come back to the bank vault?- Jack says.The bank vault. That’s what Jack calls his house. – Allen Zadoff
- I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool night air in the suburbs. – Wilkie Collins
- Only in comedy, by the way, does an obedient white girl from the suburbs count as diversity – Tina Fey
- It occurred to me that no words by the tongue of man can express the simplicities of a quiet land, so I returned to the river. – Daniel J Rice
- Hope for peace!Dream for peace!Act for peace!Live in peace!Life is for peace! – Debasish Mridha
- Peace can be fragile and peace can be ugly and peace can be wrong. Peace built on lies is no peace at all. – Sarah Moore Fitzgerald
- You can feel like he wants to own you,-not like an object but like a good dream he wants to keep having. – Melissa Bank
- Hiding white lies only causesanxiety and low self- esteem.Melissa Mae Palmer (on living with a mysterious illness and not telling a soul) – Melissa Mae Palmer
- World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion. – Dalai Lama XIV
- Do not be afraid to take a chance on peace, to teach peace, to live peace…Peace will be the last word of history. – John Paul II
- In Jesus the full meaning of peace is revealed: he gave peace, made peace and is our peace (Jn. 14:27; Eph. 2:14f.). – Gordon J Wenham
- Peace in my mind,Peace in my heart,Peace in my dreams And peace in my thoughts. – Debasish Mridha
- For a peaceful life: think about peace, talk about peace, give away peace, and fill the world with peace. – Debasish Mridha
- Still, Luce held firm to the belief that quiet and solitude were good for you, offering peace, or at least hope for peace. – Charles Frazier
- It was words and reading that had made me quiet, and being quiet had made me a mark. – Charles M Blow
- It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away. – Sherman Alexie
- Last night your thin walls invited me to the party next door / reminded me I am a quiet person in a quiet life. – Drew Myron
- Summer quiet thoughts on summer quiet noons. – Ray Bradbury
- Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action. – Peter F Drucker
- We are very quiet there, but it is the quiet of a storm centre. . – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr
- Doing nothing accomplishes nothing, gains nothing, changes nothing, and wins nothing. You have to make a move. – Richelle E Goodrich
- Why are some things easier to remember the more time has passed since they occurred? – Anna Funder
- The flow of the movement of change will be impeded wherever healing has not occurred. – Sharon Weil
- It was not the brutality of what occurred next that changed my mind and brought home to me the full meaning of fear. It was the brilliance of it. – Elizabeth Kostova
- Not for the first time, it occurred to me that sorrow could be purified into song the same way a piece of coal is purified into a diamond. – Ron Rash
- He was the oldest. When we left Kentucky, our folks told him to look after me. Didn’t say a word to me. Wouldn’t have occurred to them. – Micheal Punke
- It occurred to me that as a man I could do anything, everything I wanted. – Sara Sheridan
- Has it not occurred to you that, conversely, other people do not have your difficulties because they do not react as you do to what happens? – Idries Shah
- It occurred to him that strength was quite different from toughness and that being vulnerable wasn’t quite the same as being weak. – Michelle Magorian
- it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls. – Muriel Spark
- I had said before that all stories were magic. It had never occurred to me that all magic was stories. – Jim C Hines
- I can confidently state that the greatest rescues in my life have occurred when I’ve been saved from myself. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- It had never occurred to me that simply being with a fellow prisoner would make me feel like I was still in prison. – Elizabeth Wein
- It has occurred to me more than once that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will. – Frank Herbert
- It never occurred to us that the Earth itself might have been unyielding – Toni Morrison
- It occurred to Anita that hatred and dislike and even indifference were all luxuries, born of the mistaken belief that anything could last forever. – Tommy Wallach