quotes about Desperate Situations

“I just try not to subscribe to the ways of celebrity. I'm not a celebrity, I'm a working actor. A lot of the events -- the parties and the premieres that people go to to get noticed -- I'm just not into. I'll hang out with my friends, go see punk shows, read at home. At the same time, I have a production company, which is a lot of work.”

“We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That's it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper.”

“But what if I fail? You will. A better question might be, ‘after I fail, what then?’ If you’ve chosen well, after you fail you will be one step closer to succeeding, you will be wiser and stronger and you almost certainly will be more respected by all of those that are afraid to try.”

“If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself”

“The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy.”

“The body, then, has a mind of its own. It must follow, then, that the Mind has a body of its own, even if it’s like nothing that we can see around us, or have ever seen.”

Source : Penelope Fitzgerald (1998). “The Gate of Angels”, p.47, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“Man cannot be enlightened through any organization, creed, dogma, priest or ritual, nor through any philosophical knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find it through understanding the contents of his own mind, through observation, not through intellectual analysis or introspective dissection.”

“So little time we live in Time, And we learn all so painfully, That we may spare this hour's term To practice for Eternity.”

“In a fast-paced world, today's popular brand could be tomorrow's trivia question.”

“It is the constant and undying hope for improvement that makes golf so exquisitely worth playing.”