#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

Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion, say, or Obama's birthplace - tend to come when an opponent is desperate and can't sell himself. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#birthplace #come #desperate #himself #identity

Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation. ↗

— Alice Miller

#child #childhood #desperate #disease #fantasies

Right now, the Anglo people are desperately trying to hold on to the United States, like they tried to hold on to Africa. ↗

— Edward James Olmos

#anglo #desperately #hold #like #now

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

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

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