In a last act of desperation, you just run for your life, literally. It's a shocking thing, the loss of life.

The loss of a young life is always difficult to accept. But the senselessness of this act of violence makes it even more painful and all the more difficult to accept and comprehend,

Obviously when a national labor leader like Richard Trumka is sent to Kentucky, that indicates an act of desperation that they recognize the popularity of giving employees a choice.

I've always known that I wanted to sing, and I wanted to dance, and I wanted to act.

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

A dog in desperation will leap over a wall