Demick Starling Quotes & Sayings

Don't worry about how you got here. You are here, and if you want to survive you have to keep doing everything that needs getting done. — M.R. Mathias

I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave. — Frederick Douglass

Above all nations is humanity. — Goldwin Smith

I have second thoughts. Maybe God is malicious.
Told to Valentine Bargmann. — Albert Einstein

Beyond the fence the forest stood up spectrally in the moonlight, and through the dim stir, through the faint sounds of that lamentable courtyard, the silence of the land went home to one's very heart - its mystery, its greatness, the amazing reality of its concealed life. — Joseph Conrad

Most of us are more tired than we know at the soul level. We are teetering on the brink of dangerous exhaustion, and we cannot do anything else until we have gotten some rest...we can't really engage [any spiritual disciplines] until solitude becomes a place of rest for us rather than another place for human striving and hard work. — Ruth Haley Barton

Truth is dissent, where all power resides in the Big Lie. — Allen Ginsberg

Struggle is actually something that is important to the process of understanding what true happiness is. — Ryan Allis

They'll say, 'He never recovered from that breakdown and this was the result. It had to be the breakdown
not even he was that dreadful a novelist. — Philip Roth

Not too many people work in a job where, waiting out there are three or four hundred people who are paid to tear apart what you've done. And often they are brighter than you are, or they know more about the subject than you do, or they wish they had written a book themselves, or done a lot better. Or they just don't like it! And you have to live with it. — James A. Michener

Young people are inept at love; it is like being given a flying machine, and you leap inside, ready to set off as you've always dreamed, yet you don't have the first notion of how to make it start, much less how to make it move. — Andrew Sean Greer

I don't see why we can't have more outdoor homicides, Dr. Smoot said. — Donna Andrews

In this swarm of cigarettes and dark sophistication they appeared here and there like figures from an allegory; or long-dead celebrants from some forgotten garden party — Donna Tartt

The crowd quieted as a whole, but more than one creature cursed under his breath, "Not Regin."
A drunk hunched over the bar muttered, "That glowing one made me eat a transistor radio once. — Kresley Cole