Best 211 quotes in «desperate quotes» category

Failure may be cruel, but success is crueller still. The gods are usurers, you know; they lend to mortals, but they exact a desperate interest.

For people who are desperate and searching, sexuality on the Internet offers an incredible release.

From Toscanini I learnt the essential and desperate seriousness of making music.

For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.

He had found my worst weakness: I was one of those people who was desperate to be needed, to matter to someone.

Haste is needful in a desperate case.

Haiti is in desperate poverty.

He could shred me so easily. A few words, a desperate look, and I was cut wide open.

Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.

Human beings have hope. Not matter how desperate things are, they convince themselves that they can change things for the better." - John Gregory (Clash of the Demons)

Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work-it's a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love him.

I believe that human beings are desperate, always, to belong to something larger than themselves.

I am absolutely desperate to win a Super Bowl.

I am desperate and vulnerable. ... I am always terrified.... Beauty can sometimes be so very troublesome.

I'd be smiling if I wasn't so desperate. I'd be patient if I had the time.

I came to see that what constitutes strength is not just a muscle or will. It can also include the most desperate vulnerability, the saddest heartache, the lightest, sweetest laughter.

If we are desperate, though , if we have nothing to lose, or if we are full of enthusiasm for life, then the unknown reveals itself, and our universe changes direction.

I don't have specific people. There are so many people that I admire and there's directors that I'm desperate to work with that haven't even made a movie yet, probably.

I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

I feel like what I have become is halfway between my mother and my father, violent and impulsive and desperate and afraid. I feel like I have lost control of what I have become.

If one is desperate for love, I suggest looking at one's friends and family and see if love is all around. If not, get a new set of friends, a new family.

If you are curious, you will learn. If you are desperate, you will discover.

I know he was desperate. That makes people do all kinds of crazy things.

I got to that desperate place where nobody could help me but God.

If you're going to make a desperate, hopeless act of defiance you should make it a good one.

I guess the GOP may be more desperate than I thought to call somebody like me.

I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power.

I might be needy, competitive and desperate but it's far better than being wet.

I'm desperate to work again. I've often had those periods, but two years was the longest.

I'm less desperate now to express what's inside me, that's true - I act these days because it keeps me awake and interested, an eternal student.

I'm not desperate [but] I know that some day I'll be the coach again of some team.

I only really cast people who are desperate to be in it - who were dying to be in it, whose talent I believed in and were dead ready to do the work that was necessary.

I'm sentimental--I know. I'm desperate and silly--I know that too. Oh, help me!

In a year of re-election he was desperate to impress.

I never know what all of these guys are thinking, but Marco Rubio sounded desperate, like, We've got a leak in the dike, we got to stop this thing.

In many situations that seemed desperate, the artillery has been a most vital factor.

In my life, I have driven some crappy vehicles. But I have never been so desperate for a vehicle that I wanted a used rental car.

I only escaped from Tibet because I feared my people would resort to desperate violence if the Chinese took me as their prisoner.

I've never been desperate to please my father.

I've always said that people are desperate to find meaning in their lives.

I swim with all my strength. No superhuman surge, or pony heroics; it's just me at my most desperate.

I was desperate really for people not to accuse me of coldness. It was taboo.

I was desperate for something to read that dealt realistically with teenage life, and I thought others might be, too.

Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.

Legends were not only for the desperate. Legends were for the brave. (Soren)

Life is a process by which a few desperate longings morph into a thousand meaningless wants.

Men and women who are used of GOD, if I had only a few words to describe them, they are the passionate-weak, they are the violently-desperate.

Logos are the bleating of the insecure, desperate for acceptance by the chronically shallow.

Many who have voted for the AfD, or who intend to do so, aren't doing so because they are dyed-in-the-wool enemies of democracy. Rather, they are desperate.