D. M. Street Quotes
Rapid change, accommodating it can be one of the great human capacities. But living through it can be the stuff of stress and often suffering.
A sense of wrongness, of fraught unease, as if long nails scraped the surface of the moon, raising the hackles of the soul.
People come and go, in and out of each other’s lives like it’s nothing. So I don’t know how/why this should be a big deal.
What else is life from the time you were born but a struggle to matter, at least to someone?
These were lobbyists—many of them compensated quite handsomely not to react as human beings.
Younger colleagues tended to draw untested self-confidence from their bonuses and prestigious degrees.
The summer stretched out the daylight as if on a rack. Each moment was drawn out until its anatomy collapsed. Time broke down. The day progressed in an endless sequence of dead moments.
I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches.
I must be the only person of my age who doesn't have a bloody gong. They are so common in show business.
Television reflects our society in a more accurate way than at any time in the past.
I'm hoping that maybe everyone on the Olympic team thinks that I'm worthy to carry the flag. That's my next goal, to carry the flag during the opening ceremonies, if everyone chooses me.
How a plain and wagon on Mulberry Street, Grows into a story that no one can beat
How a Plain horse and wagon on Mulberry Street, Grows into a story Thet no one can beat
...they ain't never met nobody they didn't lie to and steal from.
We held each other so close that we might indeed have been one body.
Stop telling such outlandish tales. Stop turning minnows into whales.
But if you take pleasure in morality, then you are always in deficit.
...even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it's used for selfish or cowardly reasons.- Mr. Penderwick
The only means by which one could attain complete happiness is to avoid living in constant expectation of it. It's the expectation that causes our unhappiness and consequent bitterness about life
Let me rephrase.” He took a seething step toward me. “When it comes to you… I don’t like to share.
Who ends up with their first real boyfriend? Yeah, no one.- Courtney
Life isn't filled with perfect harmony. The world is littered with bum notes, off-key moments and tuneless episodes. The trick is to find your own music, to ignore the discord and sing your own tune.
You won this job because you were the best for the job. You are smart, quick to learn, and can quickly acquire any skill you might be lacking.
People who repeatedly find career success learn to broaden their perspective and understand that there are always several roads to getting where you want to go.
The expressions of those moving about a picture gallery show ill-concealed disappointment that they only find pictures there.
Elizabeth was not playing for the sake of exhibiting her virtuosity: she played for joy.
Every cent you own and every moment you spend is always an investment.
Once you deposit that money in your checking account, it becomes the bank’s money and you’re just another one of their creditors.
Photoshop and Lightroom help me transform my photos into what my heart felt, but my camera couldn't quite capture!
I hardened my heart against all the Bennets. - Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy.
There's a hole in the world like a big black pit who are filled with people who are filled with shit.
Reality is as thin as paper, and betrays with all its cracks its imitative character.
But how will I know it's my destiny?' 'Like love it will possess you... You can't help but know.
They were villages forgotten in the depth of time, peopled by creatures chained forever to their tiny destinies.
The open road, at night, looks like life.There's only what's in front of you, insufficiently lit.
It takes great courage and determination, to keep looking for light in all the darkness of life.
We'd all mourn for a while, but at the end of the day we were a tough lot, and we'd survive.