Desperate Effort Quotes
7 quotes by 6 authors
-
When test scores go up, we should worry, because of how poor a measure they are of what matters, and what you typically sacrifice in…
— Alfie Kohn
-
Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing of forces…
— Walter Pater
-
One of the most intuitive nature writers of our recently past century, Peter Matthiessen, lends a poets voice to the desperate effort to save the…
— Ron Franscell
-
Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings.
— Gerhard Richter
-
And then there were the wallflowers who had recognized for years that the thing was hopeless, who had found in that information a kind of…
— Renata Adler
-
With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and…
— Walter Pater
-
I have become increasingly used to the Tory party mimicking our policies and phrases in a desperate effort to pretend to their members they are…
— Nigel Farage
Who Wrote These Desperate Effort Quotes
6 authors contributed a total of 7 Desperate Effort Quotes as follows: