“Desperation will allow you to do incredible things in the name of survival.”
Colin Farrell (1976) Irish actor
2008-10-11, Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Source: The City in History (1961), Ch. 18
Context: Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.
“Desperation will allow you to do incredible things in the name of survival.”
Colin Farrell (1976) Irish actor
2008-10-11, Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Jerry Falwell (1933–2007) American evangelical pastor, televangelist, and conservative political commentator
Listen, America! (1981)
Suman Pokhrel (1967) Nepali poet, lyricist, playwright, translator and artist
<span class="plainlinks"> Every Morning http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/every-morning-7/</span> <br class="br">From Poetry
Sam Cooke (1931–1964) American singer-songwriter and entrepreneur
(Ain't That) Good News
Song lyrics, Ain't That Good News (1964)
“Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote.”
Daniel Webster (1782–1852) Leading American senator and statesman. January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852. Served as the Secretary of Sta…
See also: "Live or die, sink or swim" (George Peele, Edward I, c. 1584)
Source: Discourse in Commemoration of Adams and Jefferson (1826), p. 133
“Babies, we are told, are the latest news from heaven.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
“We're old souls in a new life baby.
They gave us a new life
To live and learn.”
Paul Williams (songwriter) (1940) American composer, singer, songwriter and actor
"Old Souls"
Phantom of the Paradise (1974)