“Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.”
Doug Horton
“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.”
Henry David Thoreau
“But what is the use of preaching the Gospel to men whose whole attention is concentrated upon a mad, desperate struggle to keep themselves alive?”
William Booth
“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.”
Willem de Kooning
“This is just a desperate attempt to deflect attention from a career of blunders and failures.”
Dan Mclaughlin
“This technology is desperately needed in today's classrooms so that children here in America will actually have a chance of getting decent-paying jobs, without having to pay to go to private high schools.”
William Bowen
“I am desperate to play and if there is a chance I can, even if it is still bothering me, then I will definitely play... it is just whether or not I risk damaging it more.”
Darren Fletcher
