#desperate

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#birds #cage #desperate #equally #get

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

You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world. ↗

— Sheilah Graham

#created #desperately #energy #enough #exuberance

I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#children #clothes #dead #despair #desperate

I'm not desperate but I know that some day I'll be the coach again of some team. ↗

— Diego Maradona

#coach #day #desperate #i #know

So, I think China desperately needs to legitimize some form of opposition. ↗

— William Kirby

#desperately #form #i #i think #needs

I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#desperate #i #keep #never #opponents

Now a movie goes out to two, three thousand theaters and by Friday night at 10 o'clock they know if you are in or out. That desperate competition is, I think, horrendous. It's awful. ↗

— Mark Rydell

#clock #competition #desperate #friday #friday night

Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime. ↗

— Bobby Scott

#any #chance #crime #desperately #fight

I so desperately wanted to be Mr. Somebody. Instead, I was the little brother, included to a point. ↗

— Charlie Sheen

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