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:

• 2 Desperate Effort Quotes by Walter Pater
• 1 Desperate Effort Quote by Ron Franscell
• 1 Desperate Effort Quote by Gerhard Richter
• 1 Desperate Effort Quote by Renata Adler
• 1 Desperate Effort Quote by Nigel Farage
• 1 Desperate Effort Quote by Alfie Kohn