I've sometimes thought that it's only by recalling that desperate devotion my kids once felt for me that I can maintain my… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
you don't need talent to be an artist. 'Artist' is just a frame of mind. Anybody can be an artist, anybody can… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
However desperate the situation and circumstances, don't despair. When there is everything to fear, be unafraid. When surrounded by dangers, fear none… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Whether it was power they sought, or revenge, or love-well, those were all just different forms of hunger. The bigger the hole… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I sing the hymn of the conquered, who fell in the Battle of Life,-The hymn of the wounded, the beaten, who died… — William Wetmore Story Copy Share Image
I will go through a lot of pain to beat someone. If there's pride and ego on the line, if I'm desperate,… — Shalane Flanagan Copy Share Image
The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
In the oasis complex, the thirsty man images he sees water, palm trees, and shade not because he has evidence for the… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Hitler appeared, a man with limited intellectual abilities and unfit for any useful work, bursting with envy and bitterness against all whom… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There is no sin worse in life than being boring--and nothing worse than letting other people tell you what to do. I… — Paris Hilton Copy Share Image
At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances of disappointed love or the… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
The most interesting character to me is someone who is stuck in the no man's land between Belief and Unbelief, Faith and… — Richard Dooling Copy Share Image
The situation in Turkey is extremely troubling. A panic-stricken regime, desperate to divide the Kurdish population from non-Kurds because it feared the… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
If the nobles of the country really have the welfare of the people at heart, they should prevent and forbid music wherever… — John Tilbury Copy Share Image
I was far too embarrassed to share the experience of Indian food at school. As a kid, you're desperate to fit in,… — Sanjeev Bhaskar Copy Share Image
He was desperate to tell his news to some other cat; he almost felt that if a mouse crossed his path he… — Erin Hunter Copy Share Image
Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Coffee shops are everywhere, especially in Los Angeles, chock full of sad sacks desperate to make sure their screenplays make it into… — Nate Corddry Copy Share Image
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest to children ardent for some desperate glory. The old lie: It is… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
It's heartbreaking that so many hundreds of millions of people around the world are desperate for the right to vote, but here… — Moby Copy Share Image
Over the years, HIV/AIDS activists and their allies have been pioneers in creating new frontiers in the medical establishment. Through their efforts,… — David Mixner Copy Share Image
I still think, despite everything, that the US is very unlikely to attack Iran. It could be a huge catastrophe; nobody knows… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“They may be misplaced, forgotten, or misdirected, but in the heart of every man is a desperate desire for a battle to… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
In every one of these haunting and hungry poems, Howell draws a map for how to enter the heat and dew of… — Nikky Finney Copy Share Image
Football is based on desperation. All clubs are desperate in one form or another - desperate to succeed, desperate to survive, desperate… — Simon Barnes 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
Our family has gone through a very difficult time. My husband and I have taken the brunt of it. I've never known… — Tracey Gold Copy Share Image
These are pictures of the people in my family where we look like the most awkward and desperate folk you ever saw,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I could have lied. I could have fought. But desperate times call for desperate measures, so I took a chance and called… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
If you find yourself desperate for money, you sometimes do whatever, but on the other hand, if you really want to be… — Jonas Armstrong Copy Share Image
It has taken Thomas Harris 11 years to publish the sequel to 'The Silence of the Lambs,' which suggests that while everyone… — Jeff Giles Copy Share Image
I think I'm slightly OCD. I'll be desperate to get a part, but as soon as I do, the sense of pride… — Will Poulter Copy Share Image
“Again, fear makes people do stupid things,” I reminded her. “It can even make you do things you never thought you were… — J M Northup Copy Share Image
As to what happened next, it is possible to maintain that the hand of heaven was involved, and also possible to say… — Xenophon Copy Share Image
“I think there's a kind of desperate hope built into poetry now that one really wants, hopelessly, to save the world. One… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When one is engaged in a desperate defense of one's world and its values, nothing can be given away, any breach in… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
This is an election year, and I think we're in desperate trouble and it's time for people to speak up and not… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
