D. M. Street Quotes
Life, " said Simone St. James..."is stitched together from a series of mistakes, some little, some big, like the patches on the clothes we wore growin' up, you know
Honest men cannot be expected to anticipate the actions of scoundrels.
The goal is to create a “chit, ” or IOU, so that, assuming you continue to perform well, the organization feels like it owes you the next time.
...it's a good idea to remember that whenever there is a buy and a seller, somebody is wrong. Make sure it's not you
Know this about yourself: there is only one reason professional salespeople lose orders-- they are outsold.
Memory is a wilful dog. It won't be summoned or dismissed but it cannot survive without you. It can sustain you or feed on you. It visits when it is hungry, not when you are.
I realized I could only play-act at the spiritual life as long as my appetites were stronger than my empathy.
Sometimes when you're surrounded by dirt...you're a better witness for what's beautiful.
Everyone wanted to get to someplace better, wherever that was.
We are homeless enough in this world under the best of circumstances without going to any special effort to test our capacity to be more so.
The poor, I am told, are kind to each other but that is because they have nothing to lose, ' he said. 'The rich cannot afford to be.
The whole game was about confidence, as it always was. Everything was fine—until it wasn't.
The problems afflicting a nation are always in equal measure spiritual crises.
The only real failure in life is giving up. On looking back let it stand to our credit in life's balance sheet that at least we tried, and tried hard.
I’ve had a lot of food but if you don’t jiggle me too much you can have your wicked way with me.
I think most of what the majority of people say is said without thinking.
Go. Think. Turn black into white.Night into day. I am tired of thinking.I know where it will lead me and I don’tWant to be there.Go love. Do your thinking.
Let me thinkThinking is all I haveIf wisdom is a pretenseThen let me pretend to be wise
The best lies are always flavoured with the truth but if the substance is rotten, it will stink no matter how much you try to disguise it.
If someone tells you a lie, they're not telling you the truth, but they are telling you something. It just takes longer to figure out what.
We need to show the Congress that our Government is no longer on sale to the highest bidder. It belongs to the voters.
The Government goes after the little guys, not their own.
If paparazzi armed with telephoto lenses have long been the scourge of the rich and famous
When left alone with her, I ignored her and kept my eyes on my book, though I confess I turned over more pages than I read.
The thought of hurting him ripped me apart. Ripped me so totally, that I knew, I cared more for him than I did myself.
If the opposite of certainty is doubt, humility must lie somewhere between the two,
I told you growing starts from the inside first, honey, and in that way, you've been growing like wildfire.
The criminal mind is perverted and convoluted but almost invariably unimaginative, 'he said as Molly came out in a fluster
Dicing with death is one man’s cup of tea, but another man’s poison. I just didn’t fear anything.
I’ve had guns pointed at me, and I can tell you that it’s not the right place to be standing if some is really mad at you!
Obviously it’s hard for anyone to imagine, but these dance halls were powder kegs just waiting to erupt. Names were made and reputations were enhanced or blown in a flash!
The anti-hero has played an important role in the history of mankind, so much so that the whole ethos of what is good and bad has become blurred.
At that time, there was only one thing better that a good fight, and that was having a good fight and getting paid for it.
Although I had committed just about every sort of assault imaginable on people and even the odd one or two against the police, I still had and still do have respect for the old school policeman.
Everyone in the valleys knew me and because of that, so many people used my name in the valleys that there must have been at least a hundred times a night that the name ‘Malcolm Price’ was used.
The creeping sense that he might have seen him reading the book came up from the ground, but that was more anxiety than evidence.
The information age is so psychotic – without the cell phone and Internet, I would be drama free right now.
Every lawyer shall tell his or her client that becoming involved with the legal system is like three years of experimental chemotherapy, one hundred percent guaranteed not to work.
If her artist's eye had given her nothing else, it taught her to see beauty where few others noticed it.
, I believe in some type of free market system. I just don’t think you’ll find an example of one completely free from government intervention.
Said Opie Read to E.P. Roe, "How do you like Gaboriau?""I like him very much indeed!"Said E.P. Roe to Opie Read.
If the breadth of perspectives is wide enough to represent the fullest range of views, consensus is unlikely. If consensus is swiftly achieved, it probably means too few voices have been heard.
As Ossie Jones crept out of his body and into the mist, his heart murmured till it was silent.