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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.

Bosch had never liked Las Vegas, though he came often on cases. It shared a kinship with Los Angeles; both were places desperate people ran to. Often, when they ran from Los Angeles, they came...

In fact her maturity and blood kinship converted her passion to fever, so it was more affliction than affection. It literally knocked her down at night, and raised her up in the morning, for when...

Obviously, it was desperation time, being down nine with three minutes to go. But three minutes is a long time with only a nine-point lead.

Technically, on the spectrum of very bad things, they did nothing truly wicked. But of course, that spectrum has no measure for the greatest of all carnal sins, the kind that occurs before skin touches...

He was lovable the way a child is lovable, and he was capable of returning love with a childlike purity. If love is nevertheless excluded from his work, it’s because he never quite felt that...

The emotion, the desperation all over the ice in every situation, it’s exciting, the fans appreciate it and it also gets results. There’s no better way to play than like that. To have that kind...

You told me, if something is not used it is meaningless, and took my temperature, which I had thought to save for a more difficult day. In the mirror, every night, the same face, a...

Being alone is much better than being around negative people out of loneliness or desperation.

I think the urgency and the desperation have gone up. We’ve gotten points in three straight games and we’ve had opportunities, now we need the consistency aspect. In order to win in this league, you’ve...

But what if I don’t believe in God? It’s like they’ve sat me in front of a mannequin and said, Fall in love with him. You can’t will feeling. What Jack says issues from some...

A woman’s voice answered, “Hello?”Walter cried back at her, “Hello, oh Lord, hello!””This is a recording,” recited the woman’s voice. “Miss Helen Arasumian is not home. Will you leave a message on the wire spool...

You can’t stay in the dark for too long. Something inside you starts to fade, and you become like a starving person, crazy-hungry for light.

The young doe, Marena, said, “In this very hour many of us are going to die. Perhaps I shall be one of them.

Your eye will no longer linger on the light, it will no longer trace constellations. You’ll care only about the darkness and you’ll watch it for hours, for days, maybe even for years, trying in...

Don’t judge me. Ethics and morality no longer exist in our world. It’s a luxury of the past, afforded only to those who had a future.

We’re not going to make it,” I said.The words caught in my throat, choking me. What was it Leslie had said to me when we were discussing Shannon’s and Antoinetta’s disappearance? ‘You’re beginning to sound...

I just didn’t want to be a loser anymore…-Mitsuko Souma

The truth is, living in any society is difficult. Those who become desperate with a fractured sense of security are much more prone to being taken advantaged of.

He sent up another silent prayer to wherever desperate prayers go and took the first step toward what he hoped would be salvation.