A Quote by Roger Waters

Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way.

Roger Waters

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Desperation English Hanging Hanging On Quiet Quiet Desperation Way

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Roger Waters
British - Musician
Born: September 6, 1943

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation. I can't take quiet desperation!

Ray Milland

There are millions of people living Thoreau's life of quiet desperation, and they do not have the language to escape from that desperation.

David Whyte

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

Henry David Thoreau

If you give a discount there's a desperation there and I like to substitute desperation with service and real quality. And the desperation goes away.

Geoffrey Zakarian

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

Henry David Thoreau

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

Henry David Thoreau

The vast majority of the people who populate our planet live lives of quiet desperation that are all too often quite harsh and painful, lives in which events and circumstances usually don't turn out the way they had hoped or planned.

Frederick Lenz

People used to live lives of quiet desperation - now they go on talk shows!

Bob Thaves

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Henry David Thoreau

The worst curse to befall anyone is stagnation, a banal existence, the quiet desperation that comes out of a need for conformity.

Deepak Chopra

The gift of willingness is the only thing that stands between the quiet desperation of a disingenuous life and the actualization of unexpressed potential.

Jim McDonald

'Cunnamulla' is a beautifully bleak portrait of a lonely town in which people are leading lives of sort of quiet desperation.

Louis Theroux

If I am good enough and quiet enough, perhaps after all they will let me go; but it’s not easy being quiet and good, it’s like hanging on to the edge of a bridge when you’ve already fallen over; you don’t seem to be moving, just dangling there, and yet it is taking all your strength.

Margaret Atwood

Human beings, as far as I can tell, seem to be divided into two subspecies -- the resigned, who live in quiet desperation, and the exhausted, who exist in restless agitation.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day

Deepak Chopra

...desperation can toy with you and if you give desperation any wiggle room, it will find alternative answers