Starks Quotes

• Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Meaningful, Work, Men

  "Fire Up Your Life: Living with Nothing to Hide, Nothing to Prove, Nothing to Lose". Book by Ken Davis (p. 31), 1995.

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• Apple was very close to bankruptcy and to irrelevance [but] you learn a lot about life through death, and I learnt a lot about vital corporations by experiencing a non-vital corporation. You would have thought that, when what stands between you and bankruptcy is some money, your focus would be on making some money, but that was not [Steve Jobs’] preoccupation. His observation was that the products weren’t good enough and his resolve was, we need to make better products. That stood in stark contrast to the previous attempts to turn the company around.

  Jonathan Ive

  Jobs, Irrelevance, Apples

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• How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?

  William Golding

  Long, Mad, Utopia

  William Golding (2013). “Moving Target”, p.197, Faber & Faber

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• So we are left with a stark choice: allow climate disruption to change everything about our world, or change pretty much everything about our economy to avoid that fate. But we need to be very clear: because of our decades of collective denial, no gradual, incremental options are now available to us.

  Naomi Klein

  Fate, Our World, Choices

  Naomi Klein (2014). “This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• What was it Catelyn Stark had called them, that night at Bitterbridge? The knights of summer. And now it was autumn and they were falling like leaves.

  George R. R. Martin

  Summer, Fall, Autumn

  George R. R. Martin (2005). “A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Four”, p.209, Bantam

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• Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand.

  Harper Lee

  Tkam, People, Mad

  Harper Lee (1970). “To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.20, Dramatic Publishing

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• All governments, Books, customs, buildings, railways, ships, and all the stark realities that men have made, Are but imagination's utterances.

  Henry Abbey

  Book, Reality, Men

  Henry Abbey, “Eleusinia”

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• Fortunately, the war has brought with it not alone a stark realization of what another war would mean to the world, but as well the creation of an international agency through which the nations of the world can, if they so desire, make peace a living reality.

  Cordell Hull

  War, Mean, Reality

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• False self is an identity based on what you have, what you do, and what others think about you. In stark contrast to this is the true self in Christ, which is who we are before God and in God - Christ living in us, as Paul put it to the churches in Galatia

  Basil Pennington

  Christian, Thinking, Self

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• Vera Stark is a fabulous force of nature.

  Pearl Cleage

  Fabulous, Force, Forces Of Nature

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• The coast is an edgy place. Living on the coast presents certain stark realities and a wild, rare beauty. Continent confronts ocean. Weather intensifies. It's a place of tide and tantrum; of flirtations among fresh- and saltwaters, forests and shores; of tense negotiations with an ocean that gives much but demands more. Every year the raw rim that is this coast gets hammered and reshaped like molten bronze. This place roils with power and a sometimes terrible beauty. The coast remains youthful, daring, uncertain about tomorrow. The guessing, the risk; in a way, we're all thrill seekers here.

  Carl Safina

  Ocean, Reality, Years

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• No known human group... simply throw out its dead without any ritual or ceremony. In stark contrast, no animal practices burial of dead individuals of its own species.

  Theodosius Dobzhansky

  Animal, Practice, Groups

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• Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.

  C. S. Forester

  Hollywood, England, Emotion

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• Suddenly I awake to a stark amazement at everything... To be alive is so incredible that all I can do is to lie still and merely breathe.

  W.N.P. Barbellion

  Lying, Alive, Incredibles

  W. N. P. Barbellion (1919). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man”

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• Tonight the American flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow.

  John Stark

  Sleep, Usa Patriotism, Flags

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• Of course a woman who decides to work full time as a mother in the home can be happy and deserves full respect from us. Motherhood is one of the most challenging and creative jobs anyone can do. The goal is to remake the world so that our choices are not so stark.

  Naomi Wolf

  Mom, Mother, Jobs

  "Naomi Wolf answers your questions". www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2001.

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• Martin Buber suggested that evil prevailed because of the inability of man to imagine the real. Yet human beings do have that capacity. Lord Byron, a poet favored by Alfred Nobel, captured the stark essence of a post-nuclear world in his poem Darkness.

  Bernard Lown

  Real, Men, Essence

  "A Prescription for Hope". The Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1985.

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• Much has been said about the meanings we make of illness, but what about the meanings we make out of cure? Cure is complex, disorienting, a revisioning of the self, either subtle or stark. Cure is the new, strange planet, pressing in. The doctor could not have known. And that made me, as it does every patient, only more alone.

  Lauren Slater

  Doctors, Self, Doe

  Lauren Slater (2011). “Prozac Diary”, p.13, Random House

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• I stand stark naked in front of the mirror and gaze directly into my own eyes. I utter 'Good morning, handsome' and my lips quiver as I stare at myown body. I don't break eye contact until I blow my load. Not once do I actually touch myself.

  Zach Braff

  Morning, Eye, Blow

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• The heart of the matter, as I see it, is the stark fact that world poverty is primarily a problem of two million villages, and thus a problem of two thousand million villagers.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Heart, Two, Matter

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• If you love a person, you love him in his stark reality, and refuse to shut your eyes to his defects and errors.

  John Macmurray

  Love, Eye, Reality

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• You know about Star Trek?" came out of Stark's mouth before his brain could stop it. Again, the warrior shrugged. "We do have the satellite.

  P. C. Cast

  Stars, Warrior, Brain

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2010). “Burned: A House of Night Novel”, p.192, Macmillan

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• Stark looked strong and healthy and totally gorgeous. I was distracting myself by wondering what exactly Scottish guys did, or didn't, wear under those kilts when he turned to face me. His smile lit up his eyes. "I can practically hear you thinking.

  P. C. Cast

  Strong, Eye, Thinking

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2011). “Awakened: A House of Night Novel”, p.24, Macmillan

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• She's magnificent," Radius said, smiling proudly as he vaulted the steps and followed Aphrodite. "I can think of a lot of m words that she could be. Magnificent isn't one of them," Stark grumbled. "Mental and mean pop into my head," I said. "Manure pops into mine," Stark said. "Manure?" "I think she's full of shot, but it's too many words and doesn't start with an m, so that's as close as I could get," he said.

  P. C. Cast

  Mean, Thinking, Steps

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• Little soul, gentle and drifting, guest and companion of my body, now you will dwell below in pallid places, stark and bare; there you will abandon your play of yore. But one moment still, let us gaze together on these familiar shores, on these objects which doubtless we shall not see again....Let us try, if we can, to enter into death with open eyes.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Eye, Play, Soul

  Marguerite Yourcenar (1957). “Hadrian's Memoirs”

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