Quotes About Darky

#1. Darky was always looking for the good thing, no matter how small, and consequently he often found it.

Richard Flanagan

#2. Darky ate slowly, enjoying every morsel, his mouth salivating so wildly that he worried at the loud sloshing sound he made. But it was lost in all the other wet noises of the night.

Richard Flanagan

#3. What's that you mutter to yourself, Matthew Maule?" asked Scicpio. "And what for do you look so black at me?"
"No matter, darky," said the carpenter. "Do you think nobody is to look black but yourself?

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#4. Say, I swear the best Messiah in the whole show is this darky, Father Divine.

Sinclair Lewis

#5. Of course Covarrubias wasn't a negro, but how he caught the darky spirit!

Langston Hughes

#6. I'm a lapsed Zen Buddhist. I've read hundreds of books on Zen, I meditated daily for about fifteen years, and once spent a month studying with Vietnamese Zen monk Thich Nhat Hanh.

Will McIntosh

#7. Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged

Rumi

#8. We become brave by doing brave acts.

Aristotle.

#9. I am not Tobias Eaton, not anymore, never again. I am Dauntless.

Veronica Roth

#10. Hereos. Idols. They're never who you think they are. Shorter. Nastier. Smellier. And when you finally meet them, there's something that makes you want to choke the shit out of them.

Paul Beatty

#11. You are young men and not children. The idea is that art allows the child imprisoned inside the adult to come out to play and celebrate the world and its beauty." He said that art was intimately linked with immortality: a challenge to death and time, a celebration of life.

Sinan Antoon

#12. If I had stayed in Belfast, my life there wouldn't have as easy as it was in Scotland. I see the strain on the people who stayed. Always worrying about the safety of their children.

Joan Lingard

#13. You see? I know where every single book used to be in the library.' She pointed to the shelf opposite. 'Over there was Catch-22, which was a hugely popular fishing book and one of a series, I believe.

Jasper Fforde

#14. The idea that war should be conducted within a moral framework may seem like a quaint medieval practice, but as speech separates humans from the apes, so morality separates civilisation from the barbarians.

Eric Corley

#15. The legitimacy of coercive acts in a democracy arises from the process by which they are justified and by the degree to which we regard decisions as rational. If the justifications proceed properly, through recognized public institutions, and if they make sense to us, they are legitimate.

Michael Ignatieff

#16. My goal is to create a therapy of ideas, to try to bring in new ideas so that we can see the same old problems differently.

James Hillman