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Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.
by Johan Huizinga (Historian, Dutch , born in 1872) keywords: age, beautiful, confusing, deeper, depression, desperation, every, intense, more, present, world, yearning , yearns My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate.
by Willem de Kooning (Artist, American , born in 1904) keywords: abstract, activity, become, course, desperate, desperation, find, having, interest, lies, myself, only, out, rather, see, seldom, sometimes, start, thinking, very , way If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime.
by Carrie P. Meek (Politician, American , born in 1926) keywords: children, crime, deprivation, desperation, leave, life, our, really, save, them, tough, try , were Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation.
by Thomas Merton (Author, American , born in 1915) keywords: cosmic, desperation, fire, full-bodied, honest, over, rich, victories , wheels The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition.
by Henry Miller (Author, American , born in 1891) keywords: another, desperation, face, look, nobody, passing, recognition, sees, thousands, tragedy, us , without Well it's a drastic procedure by your standards and mine, but for the people who are living in desperation perhaps the best way to understand it is that it seems no more drastic to them than circumcision.
by John Money (Psychologist, New Zealander , born in 1921) keywords: best, desperation, drastic, living, mine, more, perhaps, procedure, seems, standards, than, them, understand, way, well , your I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living.
by Harry Nilsson (Musician, American , born in 1941) keywords: because, believe, despair, desperation, eliminate, gives, hope, least, live, lives, living, men, most, only, optimism, option, practical, pretty, quiet, scary , solution Now people want what the movie was about, which is violent comedy. And that's really what The Aristocrats is based on - what will a family do out of desperation.
by Bob Saget (Actor, American , born in 1956) keywords: aristocrats, based, comedy, desperation, family, movie, now, out, really, violent, want, which , will I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines, nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.
by Harry Shearer (Actor, American , born in 1943) keywords: am, brings, deadlines, desperation, inspiration, more, nothing, readily, than, those , thrive 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.
by Charles Spurgeon (Clergyman, British , born in 1834) keywords: because, catholic, desperation, go, heaven, heretic, purgatory, rather, roman, sheer, should, than, turn, were , would I sort of got into Westerns... It was a sort of desperation move, really. I had several pictures that didn't go very well, and I just realised that I would have to try something else.
by James Stewart (Actor, American , born in 1908) keywords: desperation, else, go, got, had, into, just, move, pictures, realised, really, several, something, sort, try, very, well, westerns , would 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.
by Amy Tan (Novelist, American , born in 1952) keywords: arises, comes, desperation, inspiration, kindness, knows, muses, perhaps, universe , where Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
by Henry David Thoreau (Author, American , born in 1817) keywords: desperation, go, grave, lead, lives, men, most, quiet, song, still , them Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.
by Uma Thurman (Actor, American , born in 1970) keywords: actor, business, crazy, dead, desperation, drive, eccentric, end, even, go, gotten, keep, lot, nuts, perfume, plan, rid, satisfying, smelling, up , young Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal.
by Desmond Tutu (Leader, South African , born in 1931) keywords: across, africa, appeal, countries, desperation, emergencies, forgotten, island, isolated, lies, little, material, particularly, poor, problems, regions, sea, strategic , within Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German.
by Stefan Zweig (Writer, Austrian , born in 1881) keywords: desperation, disappointment, german, group, hopelessness, impossible, jew, jewish, language, living, make, misery, much, see, today, totally, write, writers , writes
