Stark Quotations

As an Englishman, permit me now to say with what pleasure I learnt of the election of Professor Planck and Professor Stark to the Nobel Prizes for the years 1918 and 1919.

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

So many people, including stark conservatives, have family members and close friends who are gay.

I don't know how it could be more stark or clear: this entire society is being dominated by corporate power in a way that may exceed what happened in the late nineteenth century, early twentieth century.

Mr. Speaker, high natural gas prices and the summer spike in gasoline prices serve as a stark reminder that the path to energy independence is a long and arduous one.

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.

'Death with dignity' is our society's expression of the universal yearning to achieve a graceful triumph over the stark and often repugnant finality of life's last sputterings. But the fact is, death is not a confrontation. It is simply an event in the sequence of nature's ongoing rhythms.

The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war.

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.

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.

We are making another run at $70 a barrel, and we are doing it without a hurricane having knocked out 70 percent of U.S. production. You couple that with the stark reminder of all the geopolitical jitters out there, and you wind up with investors wanting to get a little more defensive.

When you take out the 15 cents and the 20 cents, you can get a number which actually was below consensus. And that's obviously in stark contrast to what we saw from Lehman Brothers yesterday.

We have a pretty high standard of what we expect, and a lot of that comes from a lot of things Stark County has done.

The plain stark fact is uninsured trucks are more likely to have safety problems,

Nuclear conflict remains a very real, and very terrifying possibility at the beginning of the 21st century, ... This is the stark reality confronting you today.

It is also in stark contrast to the U.N., that sits on their collective duffs while people in the Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan need help.

Our challenge is that we respond to stark events.

Robb Stark was a young man not expecting anything, thinking his life is going to be on one path, and then he's pushed. More weight and responsibility get put onto him; more demands are made of him. For me, as an actor, there are parallels to that.

Part of the reason I wanted to write a novel was that in fiction I could do something that's difficult to do in real life, which is to dwell on the stark details of the experience without really needing to create that narrative of redemption.

Our main message is: If Stark County wants to have casino gambling, this is the best potential vehicle to get it done, Stark County is going to get lost in the shuffle and ignored.

Stark County's defense had a lot to do with how we ran our offense. We had no open looks on the perimeter and when we tried to get the ball down low they did a great job on Andy (Frank). That is the best defensive team I have seen in a long while.

That day, I did what I had to do, ... It's good to get people prepared for the unknown 'n stuff. I'd say, yes, Pete Stark is fair in his manners. At least he shows a little interest and support. He's not like all the people who ostracize me.

I would like to thank Adair Turner and his fellow commissioners for their thorough analysis of this important issue. The Commission has had a hard look at the pension system in the UK, and has set out the stark challenges we all face in providing for increasingly long retirements. This report brings home the message the Government first highlighted in the 2002 Green Paper; that people must either save more or work longer.

Windows XP is designed to bring more choice and options to consumers, not fewer, in stark contrast to AOL Time Warner's closed, proprietary strategy.

White is a trend unto itself. From very pure, stark white to ecru, you can look at white as an entire color family. White is the neutral of the season against which all other colors are paired.

We must look at the stark reality that there is a continuing achievement gap between the rich and the poor, and between whites and minority students, ... This gap is a gaping hole in our commitment to fulfilling the American promise, and it will only get bigger if we do not close the digital divide as well.

Today's trade figures are a stark reminder to the structural deficiencies of the U.S. economy and the reason for our negative dollar outlook for the year despite (its) recent bounce.

To me, this represents Arts in Stark putting its money where its mouth is. We said we're going to be bigger than this (Cultural Center) building, and this list proves it.

The rapid ramp up of available solutions from auto manufacturers is a stark contrast to the normal five-year product development cycle in the automotive industry.

We offer a stark contrast to the bland escapism that chokes the charts,

There is a certain style of writing. I don't know how to describe it exactly. It's idiosyncratic, it's very personal. It also can be very social. It's very unsentimental, very stark sometimes, usually about the problems of daily life and sometimes the humor. These are the things, I think, that define someone who's a New York songwriter.

To be sure an European woman would blush to her fingers ends at the very idea of appearing publicly stark naked; but education and prejudice are everything, since it is an axiom, that where there is no feeling of self-reproach, there can assuredly be no shame.

This year's lesson program will focus on helping students become aware to the fact that several of the ingredients for one of their most favorite foods can be found right here in Stark County.

With our run-and-shoot, we like to try to keep defenses off balance. Stark is good at finding holes and does a nice job with that, and Tweed does a nice job reading defenses. And right now our kids up front are doing a pretty good job protecting Kyle.

This was a pivotal game for us. We knew coming in that Stark County would be fired up on their Homecoming with a chance to gain a share of the conference lead.

When you look throughout the game, whether it's David with a big three or Keefe with a steal or Brian with a three or a steal or James Logan and Stark both taking charges, I felt like I got a lot of contributions from a lot of people.

The public will be given a stark choice,

We feel like we're in a good position in this debate ... because the president knows what he thinks, why he thinks the way that he does, what he wants to do in the future, where he wants to lead the nation, and that stands in stark contrast to his opponent.

Today's ruling is a stark reminder of the clear choice Americans will face in November.

Brandon is as quick a guard as I have seen or played with. He is very tough to guard, not just because of his quickness, but his ability to handle the ball. Friday when he got comfortable going to the hoop, you could just see it and Stark County had a hard time containing him.

Cop shows are by definition melodramatic; they're larger than life. They create very stark contrasts and conflicts emotionally. They're provocative, assuming they grapple with - to the extent that cop shows are mirrors of the culture.

Enron in its simplest form was a stark and vivid lesson that a company could comply with generally accepted accounting principles and totally deceive investors at the same time.

Employees can expect to see stark changes from what they've seen in the past.

The second-half performance reflected what we've been about all season. It was in stark contrast to the attempted exhibition stuff of the first half.

The stark reality is that crime happens in communities of color.

The senator's childish need for attention masks his stark inability to get things done in the Legislature for his constituents.

The string is a stark data structure and everywhere it is passed there is much duplication of process. It is a perfect vehicle for hiding information.

The Supreme Court's decision to hear this case is a stark reminder of how President Bush and his anti-choice congressional allies have politicized the judicial process.

I wanted everything to be a stark look. I don't know how many actors would agree to do a film without makeup. Philip loved the idea.

Any nonprofit organization (in Stark County) was eligible to apply. In many cases, it's the local church or the elementary school or the social service agency that's doing arts projects. We just didn't know about it.

This is a stark reminder that there's no evidence that online sex offender registries increase public safety. In fact, they might just do the opposite.

This child's getting old,' he muttered with stark regularity, an old-timey refrain that mountainmen used to utter when their trailblazing days were over,

This act is in stark contrast to the governor's record of support for the LGBT community, which includes signing five pieces of pro-gay, pro-family bills in his short time in office,

American democracy was born of no theorist's dream; it was not carried in the Susan Constant to Virginia, nor in the Mayflower to Plymouth. It came stark and strong and full of life out of the American forest, and it gained new strength each time it touched a new frontier.

It's all smoke and mirrors designed to hide the stark fact that he has no real plan for our future,

They didn't actually think it was going to be achievable, because they were so frightened by the vast scale and stark austerity of the apartment.

It was just a fright for us and a stark reminder of how dangerous this is.

Apart from stark fear, I was taken aback quite a bit. It was a huge responsibility to try and depict such a great man - such a great American.

In the Confederate Army, an officer was judged by stark courage alone, and this made it possible for the Confederacy to live four years.

California club pop chirper Dev's debut is as stark as it is sweet. This is owed partly to the casually giddy lightness of her talk-singing - familiar from her slizzered 2010 cameo on Far East Movement's smash 'Like a G6,' and around-the way-girl frisky like 1980s Latin freestyle.

I didn't expect to see the stark contrast between the way the people lived and the way things were, and the palace,

By 2000, he had embarked on an ambitious series of figure paintings, usually captioned with an aphorism from poetry or philosophy, and charged with stark physical and metaphysical deliberations.

I don't think there is any place in Stark County or Summit County like this.

I don't see any difference between being stark naked or fully dressed - if it's part of the job and it's done with meaning and intention.

For now, these data are a stark reminder to the MPC that the economy is still dangerously reliant on the consumer sector, which still has problems of its own.

The types of discrimination commonly reported today, differ from the stark bias faced by those in the Civil Rights Movement 40 years ago. Discrimination today is often more subtle requiring that we develop new strategies to meet this challenge, while simultaneously educating every American that Fair Housing is not an option, it is the law.

These incomparable maps paint a stark and compelling picture. The area that appears to be free of human pressure is large enough for the federal government to meet its goal to expand and consolidate the protected areas system by 2010. However, the government must act quickly because the opportunities are diminishing rapidly.

These hearings are going to be a stark contrast to the Roberts hearings. Can you picture her answering some of the questions that Roberts was asked?

This is all untested territory. Whatever happens, it's making the issues much more stark and real.

This is a classic confrontation between purists and pragmatists. It has been going on in both parties since the 1960s. This example is especially stark because DeWine and his critics are both conservative and committed to the same basic values.

You can see the stark contrast between the neighborhood and what they're putting up. Do you want that in your neighborhood?

The growth in the economy is not going to families, ... It's in stark contrast to what happened during the Clinton Administration.

The dynamic of globalisation in financial and economic terms, but also in geopolitical terms, confronts Europeans with a stark choice: live together, share a common destiny and count in the world; or face the prospect of disunity and decline.

The French love stark plays about power and sexuality,

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.

The financial crisis is a stark reminder that transparency and disclosure are essential in today's marketplace.