Search results

263. The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate...

energy until one is jailed in the prison air of other people’s habits, other people’s defeats, boredom, quiet desperation, and muted icy self-destroying...

energy until one is jailed in the prison air of other people’s habits, other people’s defeats, boredom, quiet desperation, and muted icy self-destroying...

him. The feelings of desperation and unhappiness are more useful to an artist than the feeling of contentment, because desperation and unhappiness stretch...

This was the diplomacy of desperation: Byzantium fell to the Turks in 1453, less than thirty years after Manuel’s death. David Reynolds, Summits: Six...

recordings while suffering from leukaemia and searching with increasing desperation for emergent cures. Despite his condition, there is nothing of the sickbed...

Rossi: "Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the...

not out of frustration and desperation that I say I don't give up. I don't give up because I don't give up. I don't believe in it. "The Man Comes Around"...

John Joseph shot himself in a spectacular act of desperation (some Christians allege he was murdered). In Masih's village, all the Christians fled and their...

access to real, though imperfect, certainties. Finally, in the face of the solitude and desperation that undermine mankind today, the Eucharist offers us...

that the desperation being generated could have far-reaching consequences... Chapagain called for immediate support to relieve people’s desperation and warned...

noisy desperation. ~ James Thurber selected by Kalki 2005 We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings. ~ Alan Moore in Watchmen...

This was the diplomacy of desperation: Byzantium fell to the Turks in 1453, less than thirty years after Manuel’s death. David Reynolds, Summits: Six...

worth anything?'". In the poem, one voice urges the other to suicide; the poet's arguments against it range from vanity to desperation, yet the voice discredits...

lost/than never to have loved at all." Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation. "The Grizzly and the Gadgets", The New Yorker (date unknown); Further...

matter of time before madness, desperation, greed or miscalculation lets loose the terrible force. Jimmy Carter, as quoted in The Watchtower magazine, (15...

Hindoos, urged by desperation at the destruction of their religious buildings, and at the insults offered to their deities, united in taking an oath to...

sir. You squeezed them, you hammered them to the point of desperation, and in their desperation, they turned to a man they didn't fully understand. Bruce:...

in teaching students to write: not to be frozen in their first effort. I think most of the things I published have been published out of desperation,...

special-needs son; or his passion in the classroom, his desperation to see an interested pair of eyes. Bryan Cranston in “‘Breaking Bad’ Q&A: Bryan Cranston...