#desperate

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

Desperate affairs require desperate measures. ↗

— Horatio Nelson

#desperate #measures #require

Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#desperately #does #education #fulfilled #funding

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

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

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

In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#desperate #economic #economic times #goes #people

It's no fun to be a struggling young actor. It's a desperate thing, no way to be happy. If you have any alternative, you should take it. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#alternative #any #be happy #desperate #fun

To not be self-conscious of your appearance is huge, and something that I desperately hope to carry into film at some point in my useless life - to not be thinking, 'My ear looks weird from this angle, why is the camera over there?' ↗

— Anna Kendrick

#appearance #camera #carry #desperately #ear