“He was hanging on, looking for a life preserver. He was a desperate man clutching at straws.”
U.S. Senator Paul Laxalt, after his telephone conversation with Marcos, March 1986
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former President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986 1917–1989Related quotes
“Anthony looked down at his evil clutches -- hands, he reminded himself, hands -- and grinned anew.”
Source: The Viscount Who Loved Me
Il n'est si homme de bien, qu'il mette à l'examen des loix toutes ses actions et pensées, qui ne soit pendable dix fois en sa vie.
Book III, Ch. 9
Essais (1595), Book III
Variant: There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
“If a man dies when you hang him, keep hanging him until he gets used to it.”
[Rommel? Gunner Who? A Confrontation in the Desert, 1989-12-01, Penguin Books Ltd, ISBN 978-0140041071]
Source: Memoirs, Unreliable Memoirs (1980), p. 17
October 13, 1660
Diary
“…nothing is desperately important and the joy of life is just looking at it.”
A Positively Final Appearance (Penguin, 1999), 3rd hardback edition, p. 2.
“He could shred me so easily. A few words, a desperate look, and I was cut wide open.”
Source: Bared to You