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Human beings do not readily admit desperation. When they do, the kingdom of heaven draws near
There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
The high cost of housing is crushing poor families and sending them to a state of desperation.
A lot of people didn't feel attracted to Labour, so they voted in desperation for other things.
It's sad, the lottery. Good projects get funded by it, but there's an air of desperation about it.
There is so much poverty and desperation in South Sudan, and yet each side is militarily equipped.
Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation.
People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
Songwriting is a burst of inspiration and then a long bit of work and a tremendous bit of desperation.
When a person feels so trapped and no options, they become desperate and in the middle of desperation.
In all probability an outburst of desperation in the midst of general submissiveness will always help.
Economy, speed, nervousness, and desperation produce the final wasteful, semi-incoherent movies we see.
Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.
Our Heavenly Father is pleased when we don't compromise our faith and principles in times of desperation.
I am a person with no desperation and I live on hope, but the difference is that I do not compromise on hope.
I've always been partial to werewolves, perhaps because there's a desperation to their plight that resonates.
I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines. Nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.
I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines, nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.
I've been traveling a lot, and I'm seeing a lot of desperation everywhere in America. A lot of sad desperation.
The desperation was coming off you in waves. You were all but begging to dance with me. I am doing you a favor.
I think most of the things I published have been published out of desperation, not because they were perfected.
My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound.
When humiliation begets heartbreak, your clothing permeates with a stench of desperation that only women can smell.
Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, became narcotic.
It is sad when people can't connect, and the sense of desperation that you feel when there is nothing to look forward to.
Canadians must fight back against global elites preying on the fears and desperation of people to impose their power grab.
I believe that everyone has it in them to kill another person. In desperation, or hatred, or at least to defend themselves.
So how can I hold Tobias’s desperation against him, like I’m better than him, like I’ve never let my own brokenness blind me?
'Cunnamulla' is a beautifully bleak portrait of a lonely town in which people are leading lives of sort of quiet desperation.
My desperation for UKIP to do well meant that I really packed the diary and the day in a way that, frankly, wasn't very bright.
You write your first novel with the desperation of the damned. You're afraid that you'll never write anything else, ever again.
Many of us have felt that sense of desperation - of urgency - when we learn that we or someone we love is fighting for their life.
If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.
It's true - women want the fantasy. So give them romance - but without the desperation, wondering, and waiting you see in the movies.
Desperation is like a spilled drink; even if it's delicious, no one will get near it. Cultivate an aura of glamorous unapproachability.
I've seen nearly every Encores! show. I love the second acts so much because you just see desperation and inspiration in equal measure.
I want to know why I read as a child with such a frantic appetite, why I sucked the words off the page with such an edge of desperation.
There are millions of people living Thoreau's life of quiet desperation, and they do not have the language to escape from that desperation.
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
Confessions are not processed or analysed; they're told in a moment of desperation to a priest or to somebody interrogating you about a crime.
Creating something beautiful out of pain helps ease the pain. So, that's kind of how I got to songwriting - quite honestly out of desperation.
I am interested in the gap between what people say and what they think - the undiscovered world of people's lives. Lives of quiet desperation.
'Chasing Fire' is about fighting for something that's already over. It's the beginning of the end. It's desperation. It's grand. But it's hopeless.
Legislatures not driven to desperation by the problems of public education may be able to see the threat in vouchers negotiable in sectarian schools.
Large swathes of people losing faith in democracy is a dangerous thing. Conflict, desperation, totalitarianism are the products of that loss of faith.
Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.
It was helpful to have the confidence of youth that came from a lack of desperation. I thought, 'If I don't succeed, I'll go back to school and study.'
Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.
My life growing up was a twisted Bronx version of 'The Color Purple.' It had a much different soundtrack and no trees, but that desperation was the same.