#desperate

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 touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch. ↗

— Walter Pater

#awful #brevity #desperate #effort #experience

Basically, we are a whole world of people desperately trying to figure out what is the dark side of our natures and how much can we explore without becoming something else. ↗

— William Petersen

#becoming #dark #dark side #desperately #else

Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#desperate #electoral #grown #happen #happening

I'm desperate to start a career in music. ↗

— Katie Price

#desperate #i #music #start

Because of President Obama's failed record on nearly every issue from the economy to the deficit to Medicare, the Obama campaign has become increasingly dirty, despicable, and desperate. ↗

— Reince Priebus

#become #campaign #deficit #desperate #despicable

The agency was desperate to get started with the commercials in 1976, but I was working on Star Wars. ↗

— David Prowse

#commercials #desperate #get #i #star

I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world. ↗

— Al Purdy

#desperately #i #trying #unhappy #world

In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid. ↗

— Al Purdy

#i #kid #mind #my own #own

Haiti is in desperate poverty. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#haiti #poverty

When you're used to being healthy and strong and vibrant and everything and then - bang - overnight you're desperately ill, it's frightening. ↗

— Ann Romney

#being #desperately #everything #frightening #healthy