Chichester Quotes

#1. I was a mixture of a country boy and a town boy, really. Chichester is a town on the coast of England, and I grew up all along that strip of coast that Chichester branches out into. Sometimes I was living in a house in the country, and sometimes I was living in a town.

Ed Speleers

#2. Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense.

Richard Dawkins

#3. How many are quite unworthy to see the light, and yet the day dawns.

Seneca.

#4. Satisfaction consists in the cutting off of the causes of the sin. Thus, fasting is the proper antidote to lust; prayer to pride, to envy, anger and sloth; alms to covetousness.

Richard Of Chichester

#5. If anything terrifies me, I must try to conquer it.

Francis Chichester

#6. I believe in a spiritual world - not as anything separate from this world - but as its innermost truth. With the breath we draw we must always feel this truth, that we are living in God.

Rabindranath Tagore

#7. I was raised really strongly on The Beatles; they were huge in my family, my parents loved them, and they used to quiz me on who was singing which song, and we'd play certain records for certain events, and things like that. So I mean, they were sort of my introduction to pop music.

Eric Hutchinson

#8. Remember, in our inmost being, we are all completely lovable because spirit is love. Beyond what anyone can make you think or feel about yourself, your unconditioned spirit stands, shining with a love nothing can tarnish.

Deepak Chopra

#9. How is the schoolmaster, the nation, to know which boy needs the whipping?

Woodrow Wilson

#10. To the question, "When were your spirits at the lowest ebb?" the obvious answer seemed to be, "When the gin gave out."

Francis Chichester

#11. Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk.

Francis Chichester

#12. I've lived for 10 years in Switzerland, so I speak German.

Martina Hingis

#13. I changed my name for that piece of shit. Historical records have been altered - Amy Elliott to Amy Dunne - like it's nothing. No, he does not get to win.

Gillian Flynn

#14. Snicker on hearing his name: 'the gentleman who thinks we are descended from the apes.'

Gustave Flaubert