In 1983, most Nicaraguans had still not fallen to the depths of deprivation and despair which they would reach in later years, but many were already unhappy and restive.

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.

To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.

I have 137 pairs of shoes and 200 pairs of jeans.

The most I've spent on shoes were a pair from Kurt Geiger for ?250.

I love a good pair of sweats!

We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.

I own at least 300 pairs of sneakers.

I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.

If you don't love it, you can't suffer thru all the despair that comes with it. Keep doing it because you love it.

I had surgery to repair the ACL in February 2010 and was back in the gym by June, but rushed things too quickly and ended up re-tearing my MCL in September.

I think that humor is part of what saves us from despair.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.

Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.

An indispensable tool is a pair of diagonal cutting Knipex pliers. There isn't any other hand tool of any other brand that stands up to it.

Unless we address those that are leaving prisons, we can't begin to repair the damage of mass incarceration and make our communities whole and healthy once again.

Despair gives courage to a coward.

If somebody dumps something noxious in my back yard, the dumper is the last one I would call on to repair the damage.