I am tortured too. I am tortured by belly fat and magazine covers about how to please everyone but myself. I am… — A.S. King Copy Share Image
The sun fades like the spreading Of a peacock's tail, as though twilight Might be read as a warning to those desperate… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
I feel like the writers that I'm drawn to, the writers that I really cling to, are the writers who seem to… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
The main thing I feel is a sense of relief. That I can give up this game. That the question of whether… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I'm fortunate enough to get to make books for a living, so I spend my entire workday alone in my studio quietly… — Vera Brosgol Copy Share Image
We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth. — Sydney Schanberg Copy Share Image
It is my secrecy which makes you unhappy, my evasions, my silences. And so I have found a solution. Whenever you get… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Her heart was pounding impossibly fast. Then she realized She was feeling both of their hearts, racing each other. A kind of… — Lauren Kate Copy Share Image
My granny was very concerned that we weren't baptised - Mum had been desperate to escape her own Catholic upbringing. But Granny… — Natascha McElhone Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm too close to the two Democrats to be against either one. I went to law school with Barack Obama and… — Keith Boykin Copy Share Image
I can't remember ever being desperate for money, even when I didn't have any. — Frank Skinner Copy Share Image
If you want to get together in any exclusive situation and have people love you, fine - but to hang all this… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
In the long run, the oppressor is also a victim. In the short run (and so far, human history has consisted only… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
There are those individuals who die for a cause, and we say they have made the ultimate sacrifice. We call them martyrs,… — Ilsa J. Bick Copy Share Image
But whichever form it took it brought with it, in those moments of bitter anguish, such a desperate surge of hope that… — Tabitha Suzuma Copy Share Image
The familiar mood that awaits the sensitive young who are poor and dispossessed is a mood of sharp and painful inferiority, of… — Peter Abrahams Copy Share Image
He could shred me so easily. A few words, a desperate look, and I was cut wide open. — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
What is the use of preaching the Gospel to men whose whole attention is concentrated upon a mad, desperate struggle to keep… — William Booth Copy Share Image
We are in need of a way out of our poverty of soul and the desperate state of our human condition. We… — Stephen Nichols Copy Share Image
During the air war of 1944, a four-man combat crew on a B-17 bomber took a vow to never abandon one another… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
Every remedy is a desperate remedy. Every cure is a miraculous cure. Curing a madman is not arguing with a philosopher; it… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There are people in America who are absolutely desperate right now, who have no means to support their families, who have no… — Scarlett Johansson Copy Share Image
The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Old love, middle love, the kind of love that knows itself and knows that nothing lasts, is a desperate shared wildness. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
God knows just the place where you'll be placed. He has a barren living room in desperate need of warmth and joy.… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
