D. M. Street Quotes
Thanksgiving was nothing more than a pilgrim-created obstacle in the way of Christmas
With this in mind, Ava tells herself to be present and celebrate the holiday instead of wishing it was over. After all, one is given only a certain number of Christmases in one's life.
If you could stretch a given minute, what would you find between its unstuck components? Probably some kind of astral madness. A bleak comprehension of the final size of things.
To uncover your true potential you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them."— Picabo Street
Emotional attachments are messy. They end with broken hearts and stalking.
There is no alternative to action, and that requires faith. The issue is how we are to mold for ourselves a belief system that is worthy of life.
The stock market is almost magical because it always leads the economy. It goes down long before the economy drops and then heads higher long before the economy rebounds. It always has.
HENDERSON, I LOVE YOUR NAME. I LOVE YOUR NOVEL. I LOVE YOUR FLANNEL SHIRTS, YOUR SMILE. I LOVE BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND DINOSAURS AND VOLCANOES.
Everybody, professors and students and Proctors the same, knew that if the sign said 'do not walk on the grass', one hopped. Anybody who didn't had failed to understand what Oxford was.
Elizabeth’s tears had wrung my heart: I longed to enfold her in my arms, to comfort her, but I knewit would be infamous indeed to take such advantage of her distress.
Loyalty is a continuous phenomenon, you don't score points for past action,
Authors have to help each other out. It isn't a competition
Are we truly acting from principle and not from interest? Surely it is at least convenient that for us the two coincide.
I'd gone so far past my fear threshold, I'd completely given up on being afraid
The financial elite already have the politicians in their pockets, as a result of their lobbying.
Almost everyone in politics nowadays has at least one conflict of interest.
Writing is the place where I can be as bold and compassionate and wise as I choose.
I mean, scamming on guys on the Internet? I thought that was only for forty-year-old divorcees who Photoshop their pictures in an effort to appear younger and thinner.
Mori looked across and was, briefly, a languageless, inhuman thing rescued from the sea and asked for an impious favour.
She was intelligent enough to realize that her excitement was childish, but not mature enough to care.
It is not summer, England doesn't have summer, it has continuous autumn with a fortnight's variation here and there.
I think we do need a Constitutional amendment to take the profit out of politics by imposing term limits.
Politics should be a field that attracts statesmen, not future CEO’s and board members.
It was like the beginning of the end of the world.
What’s the goal?” asked Carlos. “I’m glad you asked, ” said Harry. You – all of you – and I – we’re going to save the world.
I want kids to have a chance to dream of becoming something like I did in my life, and when you're living in a home that's dysfunctional and unhealthy that way, you don't dream like that.