Civilizations grow by agreements and accomodations and accretions, not by repudiations. The rebels and the revolutionaries are only eddies, they keep the… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Whereas formerly, before the advent of machinery, the commonest article you could pick up had a life and warmth which gave it… — Harold Speed Copy Share Image
“I intend to marry you in six weeks," he said, making his voice hard to mask his desperation, "whatever the cost. Tell… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“There he must, despite the anguish devouring his brain, present a face approximating the one that is associated with ordinary events and… — William Styron Copy Share Image
“I think our last kiss was meant to be quick and chaste, but after the first touch of his lips fire leaped… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
She'd assumed she'd be married and have kids by this age, that she would be grooming her own daughter for this, as… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Sometimes I will tweet things without an audience in mind at all, just because I want to say something that I don't… — Mira Gonzalez Copy Share Image
“The "more" of Christianity is a myth; a deceitful illusion designed to keep you busy and running in circles, always seeking but… — D.R. Silva Copy Share Image
“For the vile human pigs in life; the sloppy, disheveled, uncaring dregs, the ungrateful, and especially for the vicious, negative emotional peasants… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“We sensible often resist intrusive love and its chaos practically, employing measures to prevent the former for fear of the latter. But… — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
Lies are just another kind of storytelling, but with the very distinct and enlivening motive of desperation. Since writers are by nature… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
I'd learned how to lie and manipulate from an early age so a combination of that, desperation, having to have my own… — Tom Hardy Copy Share Image
Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
As long as you and I understand salvation as checking off a box to get to God, we will find ourselves in… — David Platt Copy Share Image
Desperation compels us to pray with fervent, focused faith - especially when we have no one else to turn to. God honors… — Anne Graham Lotz Copy Share Image
The intellect of most men is barren. They neither fertilize or are fertilized. It is the marriage of the soul with nature… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“You told me, if something is not used it is meaningless, and took my temperature, which I had thought to save for… — Rosmarie Waldrop Copy Share Image
The more two people open to each other, the more this wide-openness also brings to the surface all the obstacles to it:… — John Welwood Copy Share Image
Do you know what's one mistake we always make? Believing that life's immutable, that once you get on a particular track you… — Susanna Tamaro Copy Share Image
Though my natural instinct is to wish for a life free from pain, trouble, and adversity, I am learning to welcome anything… — Nancy Leigh DeMoss Copy Share Image
Songs are snapshots of what you’re going through, and mine involve questioning, searching for completion, joy, and truth, and desperation for relief.… — Melissa Ferrick Copy Share Image
People do tend to fear and despise shamans but turn to them in times of desperation. Such a contradiction is a human… — Hyon Gyon Copy Share Image
“When we are harassed and reach the limit of our own strength, many of us then turn in desperation to God-"There are… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
“New rules—we needed new rules. No one opens the main doors but me. No one leaves the property without me. No one… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
I'd love to be a director-for-hire and get a nice paycheck and captain one of those big ships, but I think studios… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
Three and a half years in L.A. was enough for me. I would love to go back for short bursts if a… — Darren Boyd Copy Share Image
“It feels as honest as the day is crummy that I begin this tale of total desperation and woe with me, my… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“...perhaps, when it got utterly dark, the peace of the darkness would become the same as light so that my last experience… — Derek Raymond Copy Share Image
You might perhaps like to see the few canvases I was able to save from the bailiffs and the rest, since I… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
I think what's interesting about Alice Munro, too, is the extreme mundanity of things. And how even a life reduced to complete… — How to Dress Well Copy Share Image
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The United States has more people living in poverty than at almost any time in the modern history of our country. I… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Nothing seems to matter quite as much. I no longer think about death in the concentrated way I once did. I don't… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Each reaching and aspiration is an instinct with which all nature consists and cöoperates, and therefore it is not in vain. But… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“SONG OF DAWN I saw the sun rise by accident. It was a horrible sight. Annoyed by its splendor, I sought refuge… — John Tottenham Copy Share Image
I was teaching live drawing in a community college and students started zoning in on the face and spending a couple of… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
At the beggining of my career, for me the comedy circuit was a combination of desperation and the fact that it was… — Eric Bana Copy Share Image
Desperation precludes reflection. That is one of the reasons why smart people can get involved in very obviously unworkable relationships. Like addiction,… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think it’s me. I think I must be doing something wrong, giving out subliminal messages so they can smell the… — Jane Green Copy Share Image
I've heard people say that God is the gift of desperation, and there's a lot to be said for having really reached… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
