We managed to make a good night of it, in the desperate…

“Last night was nothing more than one of those desperate lunges at intimacy so common in this part of the world, where sex is…

— Cynthia Adina Kirkwood

Are we not all desperate one way or another?

— Taylor Caldwell

In this desperate way, I started many a comedy.

— Charlie Chaplin

“Amy declined our offer to help her stay and sift through her webcam photos from last night. I was desperate to see what would…

— Anonymous

For now, I'm supposing that all movements are equal, which they're not, except in this respect: that none of them gives a damn about…

— Wilfrid Sheed

The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.

— Elias Canetti

I'm not being presumptuous, I hope, when I say that 'The Crown' is little bit like 'The Godfather.' It is essentially about a family…

— Peter Morgan

There was the natural human survival instinct to be optimistic.

— Barbara Demick

The prime communities of the Southwest are survival communities. Their sustenance is governed by rainfall and wind direction. You can study little enclaves of…

— Antoine Predock

“There was no such thing as a fair fight. All vulnerabilities must be exploited.”

— Cary Caffrey

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.

— Ken Burns

“Good morning,” one of the soldiers said. “I’m Captain Joseph Walker and this is Sergeant James Vanetten. We are members of the One-Hundred-and-First Airborne…

— Shafter Bailey

The crisis of our diminishing water resources is just as severe (if less obviously immediate) as any wartime crisis we have ever faced. Our…

— Jim Wright

Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.

— Martha Gellhorn

I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African…

— Jesmyn Ward