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Letter "D" » desperate
«When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.»
Author: Robert Burn
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desperate
«The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic, something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom--as something they thought was almost a necessity. It's as if at that moment the iron entered their soul; that moment created the resilience that leaders need.»
Author: Warren G. Bennis
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«There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand others. They will create subtler, wilder methods, methods that are absolutely DESPERATE. Nature herself is fundamentally antisocial, it is only by a usurpation of powers that the organized body of society opposes the natural inclination of humanity.»
Author: Antonin Artaud
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antisocial, Body of, deprive, desperate, fundamentally, inclination, incurable, methods, opposes, organized society, subtler, ten thousand, usurpation, Wilder
«That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.»
Author: Charlie Chaplin
(Comedian, Composer, Film Director, Producer, Writer)
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cane, caning, clutched, clutches, clutching, derby, derby hat, desperate, earnest, fixing, hat, in earnest, landed, predicament, straightened, straightening, straightens, straighten out, straighten up, tie, very much
«To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.»
«What is most original in a man's nature is often that which is most desperate. Thus new systems are forced on the world by men who simply cannot bear the pain of living with what is. Creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique. If Hitler had been born in Nazi Germany he wouldn't have been content to enjoy the atmosphere.»
Author: Leonard Cohen
(Novelist, Poet, Singer, Song Writer)
| Keywords:
atmosphere, creators, desperate, Germany, Hitler, systems
«When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.»
«To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
As god, desperate, executive, existence of God, experiment, helpless, lay hands on, longed, longing, organ, realization, regard, salvation, sole, teaching, the existence of God
«Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Business,
Success
| Keywords:
companions, desperate, drummer, enterprises, haste, hears, hears a different drummer, keep pace, pace, paced, paces, pacing
«Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; One desperate grief cures with another's languish: Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
anguish, backward, burned-out, Burns, burnt-out, cures, desperate, giddy, infection, infections, languish, languished, languishes, languishing, lessen, rank
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