55 Stark Quotes for You to Enjoy

How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said. Victor Hugo

I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests. Haile Selassie

Property Men Long Control Too Security Brought About Over Cherish Issue Essential Confrontation Interests Many Lived Illusions Stark

Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror. Al Boliska

Travel Airline Boredom Hours Terror Moments Stark Interrupted

Like the experience of warfare, the endurance of grave or terminal illness involves long periods of tedium and anxiety, punctuated by briefer interludes of stark terror and pain. Christopher Hitchens

Experience Anxiety Long Pain Long Periods Terminal Like Involves Periods Terror Endurance Warfare Illness Grave Stark Tedium

My style hero was' Batman.' Now it's Tony Stark. Pharrell Williams

Hero Style Batman Now Stark Tony

The horrific cases in Ferguson, in Staten Island with the death of Eric Garner, and all across the country serve as stark reminders that we must have a say in who polices us, and how that policing is done. We must, we must, let our voices be heard on Election Day. Al Sharpton

Death Day Election Country Our Say Must Cases Horrific Voices Reminders Policing Island How Eric Ferguson Heard Done Us Election Day Across Who Serve Garner Stark

As a 7-year-old child, I saw the Wall being erected. No one - although it was a stark violation of international law - believed at the time that one ought to intervene militarily in order to protect citizens of the GDR and whole Eastern bloc, of the consequences of that - namely, to live in lack of freedom for many, many years. Angela Merkel

Time Freedom Law Live Consequences Intervene Ought Saw Citizens Eastern No-One Namely Protect Although Years Wall Child Lack Being Order International Many Whole International Law Believed Stark Violation

My ultimate game - or at least one I would really like to see - would be something where it was like the beginning of George R. R. Martin's 'Game of Thrones', where you're Ned Stark, and you know that one of your friends has been murdered, and you go to the capital city and you have to navigate this web of court intrigue. Austin Grossman

You Game Beginning Intrigue At Least One Has-Been Would Would-Be City See Web Martin Something Like Know Court Least Go George Ultimate Been Friends Where Capital Really Game Of Thrones Your Navigate Stark

The upside of a downward spiral into despair and defeat in young adulthood is that pretty early on, I was forced to face not only the foolish things I had done but also the stark realization that there was likely no end to what I was capable of doing. Beth Moore

Face Young Defeat Despair Spiral Pretty Only Foolish Had Adulthood Likely Also Forced Doing End Done Upside Capable Realization Stark Downward Things Early

Governors of both political parties face a stark choice between unpopular tax increases and drastic cuts in Medicaid, education, public safety and other essential services. Bill Delahunt

Education Safety Political Face Increases Other Drastic Unpopular Both Between Parties Governors Political Parties Essential Tax Tax Increases Public Cuts Choice Public Safety Medicaid Stark Services

In 1962, when I was 19, I visited India. With introductions from people involved in the U.S. civil rights movement, I was able to visit with several of the leading Gandhians there. The hundred-to-one difference in average per capita income between America and India at the time was a stark reality for the people who became my friends there. Bill Drayton

Time Rights Reality People Several Visit Visited Rights Movement India Civil Able Civil Rights Civil Rights Movement Per Leading Between For The People Involved Became Friends America Difference Movement Average Who Income Stark

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

Emotions Worn Everything Crises Out Dreadful Trivial Emotionally Counterfeit Returned Contrast Moved Hollywood England Stark Deeply

The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success one could possibly want and who is destroyed by his personal demons. Carlisle Floyd

Success Me Man Destroyed Willie Possibly Tackling Could Because Demons His Personal Want Story Who Fascinated Stark

Every day, families in the United States face the stark choice between a roof over their heads and food on the table. Buying health insurance, owning a home, and saving up for college are just too far out of their reach. Chris Van Hollen

Health Food Day Home Every Day Roof College Face Every Too Saving States Out Table Between Over Heads Reach Health Insurance Insurance Up Families Owning Just Far Choice United United States Stark Buying

The fundamental weakness in the Tea Party machine is the stark difference between what the leaders of the Tea Party elite - plutocrats like the Koch Brothers -want and what the average grassroots Tea Party follower wants. Chuck Schumer

Follower Party Tea Machine Weakness Brothers Leaders Between Like Difference Want Wants Average Tea Party Grassroots Fundamental Stark Elite

The centerpiece of 'Law and Order' is the crime, and it starts with the writing. There's a beginning, a middle and an end. It allows the audience to watch any given episode and can drop right in and not feel lost. I think the stark, raw structure has a lot to do with its longevity. Danny Pino

Writing Law Crime Drop Lost Beginning Think Starts Law And Order Structure Given Raw Feel Longevity Audience Lot End Any Middle Order Episode Stark Right Watch

To deal with the stark reality of having hit or hurt a woman or child, to deal with the initial responsibility you have not to do that and the knowledge you did do it, can be incredibly hard. David Soul

Knowledge You Woman Hurt Reality Responsibility Incredibly Having Deal Hit Child Did Hard Initial Stark

Westlake is allusive, indirect, referential, a bit rococo, Stark strips his sentences down to the necessary information. Donald E. Westlake

Down Bit Strips Indirect His Information Sentences Stark Necessary

Until the mid-seventies, the traditional or classic lesbian was always a spinster and often a tweedy intellectual, with a stark glamour that titillated men and women alike. This is the woman that feminists destroyed when they pressured the media for 'positive images' of lesbians. Florence King

What I was trying to convey there was the kind of waste land that was left after the war. It was a bit like one always thinks of war, you know, stark scenery and no birds, no trees, no leaves, nothing living. And just emptiness. George Martin

I tend not to trust people who live in very tidy houses. I know that on the surface there is nothing wrong with a person being well-ordered and disciplined. Nothing, except that it leaves the impression of that person having lived in the confines of a stark institution which, although he or she has long since left, remains within. Jack Dee

Trust People Long Nothing Live Having Tend Except Remains He He Or She Wrong Since Institution Know She Tidy Houses Although Within Disciplined Surface Leaves Impression Left Very Person Being Confines Which Who Lived Stark

I've always been a big fan of Philip K. Dick; I love his work. There's a returning theme of identity and the fragility of our identity. Even when we are looking at what we think is a stark reality, it might actually be something completely different. Jack Reynor

Work Love Reality Looking Big Think Philip Our Something Identity Returning Always Been Big Fan His Different Fan Might Theme Even Stark Actually Fragility

I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me. Jackie DeShannon

Me Will Big Painting Follow See Perfectly New Know Said Always How Go Very Want Interested Works Stark Muse

Marvel is at its best when we see how an ordinary person has something extraordinary happen to them - whether it's Tony Stark or Bruce Banner or Peter Parker. Jeph Loeb

Best Extraordinary See Bruce Something Marvel Parker How Person Happen Banner Ordinary Whether Ordinary Person Them Peter Stark Tony

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