Quotes with desperately

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• The worlds a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

  Sean O'Casey
  Irish Dramatist (1880 - 1964)
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• There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.

  James Russell Lowell
  American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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• Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation.

  C. L. R. James
  Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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• We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
  French Christian mystic, author (1881 - 1955)
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• We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

  Anne Sullivan Macy
  American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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• We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we have something to say, but all the words in all the dictionaries will not suffice when we have nothing to say and want desperately to say it.

  Eric Hoffer
  American writer (1902 - 1983)
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• You know you're walking around with a mask on, and you desperately want to take it off and you can't because everybody else thinks it's your face.

  Niemandsland (1993) 226

  Pat Barker
  British writer (1943 - )
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Subjects in these quotes:

• capitulation
• dictionaries
• threatening
• irreducible
• commonplace
• universal

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