Starks Quotes - Page 6

• I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.

  Alan Greenspan

  Realization, Deficit, Surplus

  Alan Greenspan (2008). “The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World”, p.218, Penguin

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• The inspiration for my work comes from areas spanning the stark regions of Newfoundland to the lush and fertile valleys of the South. The landscapes offer me form; the people I've met in these places give them color.

  Peter Sculthorpe

  Inspiration, Color, Giving

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• My hopes were all dead --- struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-born in the land of Egypt. I looked on my cherished wishes, yesterday so blooming and glowing; they lay stark, chill, livid corpses that could never revive.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Disappointment, Night, Land

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.371, Simon and Schuster

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• Trump conducts meetings and actually tries to get something done rather than just have the meeting and rather than just announce a framework and rather than just touch on bullet points or outline points and to speak in large terms about what our four-year objectives are. My guess is that Trump gets in there, rolls up the sleeves, and starts talking about actual work that's going to be done, things that he wants to do, things he believes the American people elected him to do. And I think it probably is a stark contrast for people who basically work in a bureaucracy.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, Thinking, Talking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I read Norman Lock’s The Boy in His Winter with delight and amazement. Styled in the vernacular of a rapidly changing America, it stays true to the themes of Mark Twain’s original: class relations, race and slavery, childhood innocence, moral hypocrisy—and, of course, the stark beauty and unforgiving nature of America’s greatest river. I finished this absolutely elegant narrative feeling that Huck Finn has never been more alive.

  David Oshinsky

  Winter, Boys, America

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• Until all students are faced by the tragedies, the contradictions and the stark questions of life, they cannot understand the need for redemption or God's redemptive action.

  Reuel Howe

  Tragedy, Needs, Redemption

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• The most striking feature if this map is the stark fat of the Two Roads. There is the road that leads to Life, and there is the road that leads to Death. There is Good, and there is Evil. There is Right and there is Wrong.

  Peter Kreeft

  Two, Evil, Maps

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• The UK still has time to accelerate the take-up of renewable energy and put the nation on a path towards clean energy that is cheaper, stable and more sustainable. We have a stark choice: We can stay stuck in the last century's boom and bust approach to our economy in the way we consume energy and resources, or create a sustainable, stable and renewable energy infrastructure with the long term environmental and employment benefits that ensue

  Phil Harding

  Long, Choices, Environmental

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• It is a stark and arresting fact that, since the middle of the 20th century, humankind has consumed more natural resources than in all previous human history

  Margaret Beckett

  Facts, Natural, Century

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• But how awful would that be? How terrible to live surrounded by the stark, sharp, hollowness of things that simply were enough?

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Life, Awful, Enough

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• There's no way out of this, it's stark: live or die. Every given moment a bubble that bursts. Step on, from one to the next, ever onwards, a rainbow of stepping stones, each bursting softly as your foot touches and passes on. Till one step finds only empty air. Till that step, live.

  Carol Birch

  Air, Feet, Rainbow

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• My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery-just stark me.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Photography, Women, Shadow

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• Peter Geye has rendered the Minnesota north shore in all its stark, dangerous beauty, and it is the perfect backdrop for this deeply moving story of conflict and forgiveness. Safe from the Sea is a remarkable debut.

  Ron Rash

  Moving, Sea, Perfect

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• Don't forget that you are the product of a culture that went stark raving mad about ten thousand years ago. Adjust your thinking accordingly.

  Chuck Lorre

  Thinking, Years, Mad

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• When Stark isn't off sulking somewhere, or whatever he's doing when he won't return my calls, I alternate between the two. That usually works well, though occasionally an idea for the wrong guy drifts through my mind.

  Donald E. Westlake

  Ideas, Two, Guy

  The Book Reporter interview, www.bookreporter.com. April 6, 2001.

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• I think the thing that impressed me the most was the Lunar's sunrises and sunsets. These in particular bring out the stark nature of the terrain. . . . The horizon here is very, very stark, the sky is pitch black and the earth, or the moon rather, excuse me, is quite light, and the contrast between the sky and the moon is a vivid dark line.

  William Anders

  Sunset, Dark, Thinking

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• No matter how stark the reality, a human being fits it into a narrative that is palatable.

  Joshua Prager

  Reality, Narrative, Matter

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• Names generate meaning in a short amount of space — they provoke thoughts, questions. That's something I like doing. Of course, you have to be careful. Sometimes it can alienate the reader, it can be another level of mediation, to make a character carry the great burden of a metaphoric name. The character can be a device before he or she becomes a person, and that can be a bad thing for a writer who wants to offer up a kind of emotional proximity in the work. It's a constant struggle, the desire to be playful and the desire to communicate on some very stark emotional level.

  Joshua Ferris

  Struggle, Character, Emotional

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• I think it's a very stark marker of what kind of president we have that, from all available evidence, Donald Trump has not read a book, as an adult. This is not someone who sits down in the evening to consider the latest bestseller, let alone Tolstoy - but who is very very active on this medium that requires no discipline and no attention and no empathy. It is all about retweeting praise of oneself or very quickly or poorly considered, ill-typed, misspelled diatribes against other people.

  Ben H. Winters

  Book, Thinking, Discipline

  Source: www.slate.com

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• We are stark naught all, bad's the best of us.

  Dario Fo

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• A law imposing criminal penalties on protected speech is a stark example of speech suppression.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Law, Freedom Of Speech, Criminals

  "Excerpts From Opinions in Ruling on the Child Pornography Prevention Act". www.nytimes.com. April 17, 2002.

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• That holy, humble, meek, modest, retiring Form, sometimes called the Spirit of Prayer, has been dragged from the closet, and so rudely handled by some of her professed friends, that she has not only lost all her wonted loveliness, but is now stalking the street, in some places, stark mad.

  Asahel Nettleton

  Prayer, Humble, Mad

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 193, 1895.

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• It is said that we only get to know God in those stark moments when we are driven to depend on him.

  Margaret Campbell Barnes

  Moments, Driven, Said

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• No person who has not spent a period of his life in those 'stark and sullen solitudes that sentinel the Pole' will understand fully what trees and flowers, sun-flecked turf and running streams mean to the soul of a man

  Ernest Shackleton

  Running, Flower, Mean

  Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, Sir Tannatt William Edgeworth David (1909). “The Heart of the Antarctic: Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909”

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• I find stuff written about me is in stark contrast to who I am. But I can sleep well at night knowing that I did my best - I'm looking forward to my next chapter, whatever that is.

  Peta Credlin

  Sleep, Night, Knowing

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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