A Positively Final Appearance (Penguin, 1999), 3rd hardback edition, p. 2.
“He was hanging on, looking for a life preserver. He was a desperate man clutching at straws.”
Ferdinand Marcos (1917–1989) former President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986
U.S. Senator Paul Laxalt, after his telephone conversation with Marcos, March 1986
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“You can achieve anything in life. It just depends on how desperate you are to achieve it.”
Milkha Singh (1935) Indian track and field athlete
The Race of My Life: An Autobiography Milkha Singh (2013)
Bernard Cornwell The Grail Quest
Thomas of Hookton and Father Hobbe, p. 140
The Grail Quest, The Archer's Tale/Harlequin (2000)
“Nothing in life produce a more powerful joy than a near miss by the Angel of Death.”
Charles Sheffield book Convergence
Source: The Heritage Universe, Convergence (1997), Chapter 26 (p. 516)
Guillaume de Machaut (1300–1377) French poet and composer
Et musique est une science
Qui veut qu'on rie et chante et dance.
Cure n'a de merencolie,
Ne d'homme qui merencolie
A chose qui ne puet valoir,
Eins met tels gens en nonchaloir.
Partout ou elle est joie y porte;
Les desconfortez reconforte,
Et nes seulement de l'oir
Fait elle les gens resjoir.
"Le Prologue", line 85; translation from Ross W. Duffin (ed.) A Performer's Guide to Medieval Music (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000) p. 190.
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“The desperate usually succeed because they have nothing to lose.”
Jodi Picoult (1966) Author
Source: Vanishing Acts
