Monique Roffey Quotes

'The White Woman on the Green Bicycle' is a love story mapped onto an unfolding political tragedy: that of the failure of the Independence era in Trinidad.

Monique Roffey

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LoveFailureWomanGreenStory

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

Jodie Foster

FearAloneGreatExperienceWarMe

America is an idea. And it's the solemn responsibility of each 'temporary' president to protect and nurture that noblest of all ideas - with integrity. This man, Mitt Romney, has shown - not through his experience, but through his actions and words - that he is unqualified to carry out that responsibility.

Jennifer Granholm

IntegrityResponsibilityExperience

Based on my experience, it's considerably difficult to force a donkey into doing something it perceives to be dangerous for whatever reason.

Maurizio Cattelan

ExperienceDoingDangerousDifficult

The financial markets tend to be just a backdrop for a novel, for a heist or something that isn't necessarily integral to it. On the whole, I don't think the financial world has been well served by novels.

Robert Harris

WorldThinkFinancialSomethingWell

It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world.

Stefan Zweig

WorldConscienceCountWould

People have said, 'Oh, but you don't look like you're from Manchester.' And I always want to ask, 'What the hell does someone from Manchester look like?'

Tom Glynn-Carney

PeopleHellSomeoneYouLookSaid

Our pledge is to hold elections in the year 1985. The form of elections has not yet been determined, but there is a group of representatives of the political parties in Nicaragua who have been traveling around the world studying various electoral alternatives.

Tomas Borge

WorldPoliticalYearGroupStudying

Before I started writing about food, my focus was really on the human relationship to plants. Not only do plants nourish us bodily - they nourish us psychologically.

Michael Pollan

RelationshipFoodFocusPlantsHuman

A really important point for me is that I don't use any brand or corporate sponsors. So I have no responsibility to anyone but myself and the subjects.

JR

MyselfResponsibilityMeBrandPoint

Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose.

Joseph Brodsky

LifeWinSmallBookGameLose

The police, at their best, do three things; they prevent crime, they respond to crime, and they solve crime. In all three of those buckets, they need the trust of the community to do it, so I believe that if we restore the trust that we will change the way police are experiencing communities and ways that will preserve life and make everyone safer.

DeRay Mckesson

LifeChangeCommunityTrustBest

Democracy is about voting and it's about a majority vote. And it's time that we started exercising the Democratic process.

Debbie Stabenow

TimeDemocracyProcessVotingVote

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