Best 211 quotes in «desperate quotes» category

The best evangelists, the best preachers, the best teachers are desperate people.

The Brothers Grimm came along and I was so desperate for work... Actually I've got to say that I like the movie, I won't apologize for it.

The desperate addict is closer to the heart of grace than the devout moralist.

The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.

The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.

The privileged individuals and families who comprise the global elite will happily bankrupt their own countrymen, decimate their own community and evict their neighbors from houses in their desperate bid to increase their wealth.

The destruction of the world is the last, almost desperate attempt to save myself from being crushed by it

The end of a dissolute life is a desperate death.

The future is itself a story, and predictions are stories we tell to amaze ourselves, to give hope to the desperate, to jolt the complacent.

The Kingdom of Heaven is not for the well-meaning: it is for the desperate.

The other day, I was so desperate for a beer, I snuck into the football stadium and ate the dirt under the bleachers.

The people at the Café Lehmitz had a presence and a sincerity that I myself lacked. It was okay to be desperate, to be tender, to sit all alone or share the company of others. There was a great warmth and tolerance in this destitute setting.

The people that live in my hometown do not walk along the street with smiles on their faces. It is a desperate place, but I got out.

The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility

There is now a desperate need for a London-wide left caucus of those interested in the GLC and local councils so that we can compare and discuss what is happening in each borough.

There is still a desperate need for investment and promotion of education in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan. Official figures put Pakistan literacy rate over 45%, but in many rural areas we work it is about 10-15%, and for girls even lower.

These attacks prove one thing for certain: the liberal establishment is desperate to keep leaders like me out of office, and we are sure to hear more wild, dishonest smears during this campaign.

There's this huge number of desperate people.

The term itself--my life--is a desperate overstatement.

The Test arena is a place I have been desperate to get back to, it is the pinnacle of the sport

Those that dare lose a day, ate dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, are desperate.

There arc no such things as desperate situations. Only desperate men.

This is an industry that generates addicted gamblers and they are desperate to get money

This is how the great post-partisan, post-racial, New Politics presidency ends - not with a bang, not with a whimper, but with a desperate election-eve plea for ethnic retribution.

This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property ordoes itself and leads the will to desperate undertakings.

We celebrities are desperate pigs.

We are loaded down with too many good things, more than we could ever need, while others are desperate for a small loaf. The good things we cling to are more than money; we hoard our resources, our gifts, our time, our families, out friends....how ludicrous it is to hold on to the abundance God has given us and merely repeat the words 'thank you'.

We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff.

We didn't have MTV, and I was desperate for something. You know, you're young, you want something off the beaten path. And Twin Peaks was like, surrealism on network TV.

We don't need to respond with desperate violence.

We've poisoned our planet to a desperate degree. We have no idea of how severe the toxification is.

When a person feels so trapped and no options, they become desperate and in the middle of desperation.

When you don't know where you fit inside the home and you're young and you're desperate to fit in somewhere, I'd figured where I would fit outside the home. So I made some obviously bad decisions about who I hung out with and the things that I did.

When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.

When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can.

This is the way the world really ends: not with whimper but a desperate chuckle.

When things are really desperate and hopeless and you can't do anything about this, and there's a sense that something must be done, that is something usually leads to the U.N.

All at once I feel desperate, outraged. Why am I alone doomed to spend nights of torment, with an unseen jailer, when all the rest of the world sleeps peacefully? By what laws have I been tried and condemned, without my knowledge, and to such a heavy sentence, too, when I do not even know of what or by whom I have been indicted? A wild impulse comes to me to protest, to demand a hearing, to refuse to submit any longer to such injustice. But to whom can one appeal when one does not even know where to find the judge? How can one ever hope to prove one’s innocence when there is no means of knowing of what one has been accused? No, there’s no justice for people like us in the world: all that we can do is to suffer as bravely as possible and put our oppressors to shame.

Who could be more desperate than filmmakers?

A big part of dealing with depression is realizing that you are in control of your own happiness.

Ah, sarcasm. The final refuge of the desperate.

Whether it was power they sought, or revenge, or love-well, those were all just different forms of hunger. The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.

Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel.

You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.

Your woe hath been my anguish; yea, I quail And perish in your perishing unblest. And I have searched the highths and depths, the scope Of all our universe, with desperate hope To find some solace for your wild unrest.

You see all these things that make you feel desperate or sad, but you realize changes can be made, and it doesn't take a lot of money on our part to make a change in people's lives.

As long as you call on God, He will answer you.

...as if, one lover gone, I was opening up for an immediate replacement. Smack habit, love habit - what's the difference? They can both kill you. For the bus journey I fell in love with a woman who smiled at me. The motion of the bus made her thick mop of fair curls tremble. We talked about desperados. 'I am fatally attracted to them', I said. 'In fact, I probably am one'.

At times I was desperate and could find no solace anywhere. Nothing seemed to work, and the weight of being trapped in my own body made it difficult to lift even a hand off the sheets.

Compete with yourself; you have no knowledge about the degree of gifting others might have. Don't decide to slow down because you have gone too far and everyone is behind you!