| "Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out." »Michel Eyquem de Montaigne |
| "Why should we be in such desperate hast to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer." »Henry David Thoreau |
| "desperate affairs require desperate remedies." »Horatio Nelson |
| "In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest." »Titus Livius |
| "My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised." »Jesse Louis Jackson |
| "To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime." »Erich Fromm |
| "It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance." »Thomas Jefferson |
| "My country, right or wrong, is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, My mother, drunk or sober." »G. K. Chesterton |
| "The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen." »Alice Walker |
| "The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility." »Eric Hoffer |
| "Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love." »Delmore Schwartz |
| "Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith-a desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will-but faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world-faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity." »George Frost Kennan |
| "The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic, something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom--as something they thought was almost a necessity. It's as if at that moment the iron entered their soul that moment created the resilience that leaders need." »Warren Bennis |
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