#desperate

After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith; they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#after #armed #defeat #desperate #exile

You think you can go into all those auditions not knowing who you are? The work came after I found my sense of self - when I wasn't so manic and desperate. ↗

— Jenifer Lewis

#auditions #came #desperate #found #go

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains. ↗

— Anne Sullivan Macy

#chains #cling #commonplace #desperately #escape

It doesn't matter if you have a desperate heart when you have to sing about joy; it doesn't matter if you're scared to death when the lights go on. ↗

— Mireille Mathieu

#death #desperate #go #heart #joy

Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#against #baby #biological #blind #desperate

When I was about 5 I think, I desperately wanted to be a pirate and have the hat and everything. ↗

— Keira Knightley

#desperately #everything #hat #i #i think

The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients are forced to seek medication on the black market. ↗

— Pauline Hanson

#black #desperate #experts #forced #geneva

For the moment I prefer to be a beautiful woman of my age than try desperately to look 30. ↗

— Demi Moore

#beautiful #beautiful woman #desperately #i #look

To put up a show is to face life's injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination. ↗

— Luigi Barzini

#brave #desperate #face #few #imagination

A desperate plea to the Trinity is not something you can just apologize for in the morning -Drunk Dialing the Divine ↗

— Amber Koneval

#brokenness #catholic #christian #despair #desperateness