Cedric Richmond Quotes

As a survivor of Hurricane Katrina, I understood all too well the despair my colleagues - Republican and Democrat alike - were feeling as Hurricane Sandy ravaged their communities.

Cedric Richmond

• Despair
• Hurricane Katrina
• Ravaged
• Hurricane Sandy

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• The people I am most interested in are the ones on the edge of losing everything and falling into the last bit of despair. I'm trying to write about how people exist on that edge and how they can come back.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • People
  • Losing
  • Despair

• I think it's about not just the crisis you're in, but how do you get to the other side? How do we heal? How do we survive this experience while remaining hopeful instead of filled with despair? That's what interests me.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Experience
  • Despair
  • Crisis

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

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Hope
  • Despair
  • Blues

• For me, it's not an option to despair. The question is: what can we do to make someone's life better? Take the unimaginable strides made in places like Bosnia, where I cut my teeth, and Rwanda. Their stories aren't perfect, but I wouldn't have dreamt they could happen in a million years.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Life
  • Perfect
  • Stories

• Science still won't explain the mysterious nature of love and despair.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Nature
  • Science
  • Stills

• The path to joy leads through despair.

  

  Alexander Lowen
  • Joy
  • Path
  • Despair

• There is a hint of despair in the cry of 'I told you so,' an element of disappointment in the apparent satisfaction when idols turn out to have clay feet. The human race, when it thinks it has proved that no one is superior, is partly gratified and partly depressed.

  

  Alice Thomas Ellis
  • Disappointment
  • Despair
  • Satisfaction

• She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Night
  • Always
  • Woman

• Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.

  

  Benjamin Banneker
  • Courage
  • Challenges
  • Easy

• Who would attain to summits still and fair,Must nerve himself through valleys of despair.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Stills
  • Despair
  • Nerves

• Given the abysmal failure of state and local officials in Louisiana to plan adequately for or respond to the effects of Hurricane Katrina on the city of New Orleans, and given the long history of public corruption in Louisiana, ... I am not confident that Louisiana officials can be trusted to administer federal relief aid.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Long
  • History
  • City

• As we agreed, the Congress will include this funding in the upcoming emergency appropriations bill to fund the recovery and rebuilding efforts for hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The bill we send to the president for signature will include the $125 million.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Recovery
  • Congress
  • Efforts

• I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.

  

  Emile Zola
  • Despair
  • Conviction
  • Intense

• Trying every day to tell the truth is hard. There are harder things, of course - arguably, living with lies and meaninglessness, living in despair is harder, but it's hardship disguised as luxury and easier perhaps to grow accustomed to, since truth is usually the enemy of custom. There are harder things than writing, being President Obama, for instance, and having to deal with House Republicans, or trying to fix the leak at the Fukushima reactor, these are harder, but writing is hard.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Truth

• I like to think that it isn't weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness, a stand against oblivion and despair.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Thinking
  • Kindness
  • Despair

• But when I found out that Jamey Rodemeyer had made an It Gets Better video only months before taking his own life, I felt indescribable despair.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Life
  • Despair
  • Video

• Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Evil
  • Struggle
  • Modern

• I will despair, and be at enmity With cozening hope.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Despair
  • Enmity

• One leaf left on a branch and not a sound of sadness or despair. One leaf left on a branch and no unhappiness. One leaf left all by itself in the air and it does not speak of loneliness or death. One leaf and it spends itself in swaying mildly in the breeze.

  

  David Ignatow
  • Despair
  • Loneliness
  • Breeze

• I may look like an American WASPy doctor or lawyer, but I feel just like Woody Allen. Don't cast me for my looks - I have a very ironic, existential, crazy Jew in me.

  

  Spalding Gray
  • Looks
  • Jew
  • Cast

• Even as the angry vengeful thoughts boiled through me, I saw the sin of them. Jesus Christ had died for this man; was I going to ask for more? Lord Jesus, I prayed, forgive me and help me to forgive him....Jesus, I cannot forgive him. Give me your forgiveness....And so I discovered that it is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world's healing hinges, but on His. When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives along with the command, the love itself.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • World
  • Help
  • Jesus

• By Heaven! it is a splendid sight to see For one who hath no friend, no brother there.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Heaven
  • Sight
  • Splendid

• As a survivor of Hurricane Katrina, I understood all too well the despair my colleagues - Republican and Democrat alike - were feeling as Hurricane Sandy ravaged their communities.

  

  Cedric Richmond
  • Despair
  • Hurricane Katrina
  • Ravaged