“Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.”

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

We moralize among ruins.

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.

London is a roost for every bird.

Never complain and never explain.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

Desperation can make a person do surprising things.

Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

And nothing fuels a good flirtation Like need and anger and desperation No, the moth don’t care if the flame is real.

There’s a sense of desperation in Afghanistan because of the lack of funding and the fact that the U.S. only has a one-track military strategy. It doesn’t have an economic and political game plan.

The label sort of capitalized on that desperation and that competition.

The legacy of the embargo will be Cuba’s poverty and desperation. When the island comes out of it, they’ll be even more desperate than they are now about the things they think they’ve missed.

People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.

We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or desperation.