Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand.
For what are the words with which to summarize a lifetime, so much crowded confused happiness terminated by such stark slow-motion pain?
I was very low and I had to achieve something. Without the challenge, I would have gone stark raving mad.
True peace of mind can be obtained only when one is personally awakened to the stark-naked fact that every effort is ultimately in vain.
In the Confederate Army, an officer was judged by stark courage alone, and this made it possible for the Confederacy to live four years.
Antarctica is otherworldly, like nothing I've ever seen before. Stark, cold, beautiful desolation.
I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S Grant in full military regalia.
All governments, Books, customs, buildings, railways, ships, and all the stark realities that men have made, Are but imagination's utterances.
Like when that man was running down Broadway stark naked and we all had to eat in the cafeteria while the police tried to catch him.
The great thing about 'Vera Stark' is that my research was watching movies, screwball comedies, so I could literally sit back and relax.
Simple questions can be profound, and answering them requires us to make stark and honest - and sometimes painful - self-assessments.
Reporters tend to launch on what seems to be the clearest, most stark aspects of someone's life in terms of an interview.
One must go through life, be it red or blue, stark naked and accompanied by the music of a subtle fisherman, prepared at all times for a celebration.
'The HoneyLine' is my web site and TV segments that were birthed out of the stark reality that we all need a few people to help navigate this life.
A significant portion of the earth's population will soon recognize, if they haven't already done so, that humanity is now faced with a stark choice: Evolve or die.
Being humble got me very far when I went to L.A., because it was in stark contrast to this town of people who were so cutthroat.
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.
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.
The HoneyLine is my web site and TV segments that were birthed out of the stark reality that we all need a few people to help navigate this life.
BEAUTIFUL is stark, disquieting and, quite simply, riveting. Amy Reed is an author to keep on your radar.
Tony Stark in 'Iron Man' helped wider audiences finally embrace the enormous talent of Robert Downey Jr.
I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.
I prefer cozy and warm to stark and sterile. You don't have to spend a lot of money to give your place personality.
Throw leaders into an extreme environment, and it will separate the stark differences between greatness and mediocrity.
The truth can't hurt you, it's just like the dark. It scares you witless, but in time you see things clear and stark.
It is said that we only get to know God in those stark moments when we are driven to depend on him.
I think that Rodney Stark puts his foot wrong on some things where he simply wasn't sufficiently current on scholarly developments.
I was writing fiction steadily, but I found that the stark determinisms of code were a welcome relief from the ambiguities of literary narrative.
Arya lifted her gaze from the dead man and his dead dog. Jaqen H'ghar was leaning up against the side of the Wailing Tower. When he saw her looking, he lifted a hand to his face and laid two fingers casually against his cheek.
Bear Island knows no king but the King in the North, whose name is STARK.
Coyness is a rather comically pathetic fault, a miscalculation in which, by trying to veil the ego, we let it appear stark naked.
My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery-just stark me.
I'll put a bullet through my own brain. Let alone wait for stark to do it. Your sister will drive me to it, Howard. No offense.
Westlake is allusive, indirect, referential, a bit rococo, Stark strips his sentences down to the necessary information.
Obama and his allies are promoting a medical system that is the third leading cause of death in America. It's that stark and it's that simple.
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.
Few news stories can demonstrate the stark difference between conservatism and liberalism like the George Zimmerman trial has done.
For every man that ever walked the Earth, except maybe the sociopaths, when it comes to talking to pretty girls... it's just stark terror.
My character in 'Ivan Thanthiran' is in stark contrast to my role in 'U Turn.' Here, I play Asha, a hard working girl belonging to a middle-class background.
"You look different now. Like a proper little girl," (said Gendry.) "I look like an oak tree, with all these stupid acorns," (said Arya.) "Nice, though. A nice oak tree. [...] You even smell nice for a change."
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
There is a stark difference between fear and uncertainty, Sarai. You fear nothing but are uncertain of everything.
'Agnivarsha' is not a costume drama like Shashi Kapoor's 'Utsav' or Sanjay Leela Bhansali's 'Devdas.' This one has no elaborate jewellery and clothes. It is sparse and stark.
People who want to see things in stark dualities are not going to get much out of my music.
There are your enemies, the Red Coats and the Tories. They are ours, or this night Molly Stark sleeps a widow!
If I could wish the Kingslayer back in chains I would. You freed him without my knowledge or consent... but what you did, I know you did for love. For Arya and Sansa, and out of grief for Bran and Rickon. Love’s not always wise, I’ve learned. It can lead us to great folly, but we follow our hearts... wherever they take us. Don’t we, Mother?
Somehow the government has convinced the American people that using tear gas is perfectly harmless, despite stark evidence to the contrary.
The Tony Stark I grew up with wasn't as snappy and as quippy as Downey Jr. made him, but now I only think of his performance.
Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.
But at least if you hint and are rejected, the rejection is blurable rather than blistering. Whereas if you ask outright and are refused, the humiliation is as stark as a streaker on a football.
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.
When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.
No other health disparity is so stark; virtually every woman who dies giving birth lives in a poor country.
I wrote 'Ruined' and 'Vera Stark' at the same time. That's just how my brain functions - when I'm dwelling someplace very heavy, I need a release.
I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect.
The night whose sable breast relieves the stark,
White stars, is no less lovely being dark
But even this piece of flattery couldn't distract me from the fact that I was in the center of the Fae realm, blind, stark naked, and without the slightest idea of what was going on.
I wouldna cross the road to see a scrawny woman if she was stark naked and dripping wet. ~Jamie Fraser
There is one stark fact facing us: three quarters of all crime that results in a caution or sentence happens because of reoffending. We must be fearless in dealing with this.
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