I don’t see enough desperation.

Such a little childTo send to be a priestling…Icy poverty

But when they made love he was offended by her eyes. They behaved as though they belonged to someone else. Someone watching. Looking out of the window at the sea. At a boat in the...

I talked to a calzone for fifteen minutes last night before I realized it was just an introverted pizza. I wish all my acquaintances were so tasty.

It’s not your enemies who condemn you to solitude, it’s your friends

I wake abruptly, my breath jagged and heart racing, my mouth stale, and I know immediately that’s it. I’m awake. The more I want to be oblivious, the less I can be. Life and light...

The veneer of civilization fell away to reveal desperate animals, humanity at their worst.

Sometimes loneliness makes the loudest noise.

He were found drowned. He were coming home very hopeless o’ aught on earth. He thought God could na be harder than men; mappen not so hard; mappen as tender as a mother; mappen tenderer....

This desperation tactic, by those who seek to dismantle the reconstruction process, will only solidify the determination of the United States and the international community to rid Iraq of these henchmen of Hussein’s brutal regime...

When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on

We just played with a lot of energy at the end. Obviously, it was desperation time. We were very fortunate tonight.

If it occurs to U.S. imperialism, in its desperation, to invade Venezuela, a 100-years’ war will begin,

For weeks Tyrone thought he was going to die any minute, and there were also times when he was afraid he wasnt going to die.

…don’t you realize a flawless profile means nothing when a mere smile drives me to desperation? Don’t you covet that power?..

Tonight I think we picked up our desperation and urgency. We need to do that, or else we were going to be in trouble.

I wouldn’t say desperation was our situation tonight early in the game, it was more I think a really clear and attractive pursuit of the goals that we want, and that’s the way we played...

…perhaps, when it got utterly dark, the peace of the darkness would become the same as light so that my last experience would become as mysterious and musical as my first, so that in my...

To whomever is writing this book, what do you want from me? I need to know my calling. Why was I chosen? Why not Lee? Why not Susan March? Why me? What is my purpose?...

Anyone who is desperate or alone will agree there is comfort in routine.

I’m proud of the kids. They played with a sense of desperation in the fourth quarter and nearly came back.

Needless to say, a good part of this desperation owes to the growing successes gained by our security forces in turning the heat on terrorist outfits and infiltration across the border,

It was nothing short of desperation.

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When there is silence, Give your voice. When there is darkness, Shine your light. When there is desperation, Offer hope.

Obviously it was desperation being down nine with 3 minutes left. But 3 minutes is a long time and nine points is four possessions. We were very fortunate tonight.

Jane! will you hear reason?’ (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) ‘because, if you won’t, I’ll try violence.

Hope is an enthusiastic assurance.

That’s the kind of desperation we have to have.

Neil said to me once that in times of desperation, you have to force yourself to make a decision.It’s your choice, he said. Us or them. So choose.

Obsession and desperation for your goal, gets you the goal.

When the waterholes were dry, people sought to drink at the mirage.

The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don’t necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom is largely a function of intelligence and self-awareness, not time on...

I can’t help remembering that good old wild Thoreau wound up a tame surveyor of Concord house lots. […] How would I know what it means? I don’t know what anything means. What it suggests...

Cries for help are frequently inaudible.

Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation.

NOVIA. ¡Porque yo me fui con el otro, me fui! (Con angustia.) Tú también te hubieras ido. Yo era una mujer quemada, llena de llagas por dentro y por fuera,y tu hijo era un poquito...

THIS IS WHYHe will never be given to wonder muchif he was the mouth for some cruel forcethat said it. But if he were(this will comfort her) less than one momentout of millions had he...

The apartment faces an alley and is entered by a fire-escape, a structure whose name is a touch of accidental poetic truth, for all of these huge buildings are always burning with the slow and...

When we were down nine, it became a kind of desperation time for us. But three minutes is a long time.

Endurance over-goaded, stretched the hand of fraternity to sedition.

Man cries, his tears dry up and run out. So he becomes a devil, reduced to a monster.

That’s the key word right there, desperation. It was used this morning and it was used tonight. It was obvious it was talked about by the players and they took it to heart.

Neil once told me you had to become a monster so that you didn’t become the victim of one instead. I don’t care what anyone says. I believe him.

If you were mine, I’d never leave you, Prudence. I couldn’t.

In the sea of desperation, there are ships of opportunities

Things are never as they seem. A person. A Mark. A statement. They are always deeper than we perceive, like walking in the ocean and suddenly dipping under the surface because the bottom has disappeared...

In the final analysis, with Rene she had been an apprentice to love, she had loved him only to learn how to give herself, enslaved and surfeited, to Sir Stephen.

People need me. I fill them. If they can’t see me for a while they get desperate, they get sick. But if I see them too often I get sick. It’s hard to feed without...

The Oxys filled holes in me I hadn’t realized were empty. It was, at least for those first few months, a wonderful way to be disabled. I felt blessed.