Best 211 quotes in «desperate quotes» category

The lonesome and desperate kids out there, that pain will translate to magic perhaps.

There is no such thing as a boring person when you are lonely or extremely bored.

The small launch bay was littered with debris. A powerful breeze tore at his black silk shirt as Kilroy made his way across it to the waiting shuttle, evoking a feeling like the fingers of fate were caressing his body. “The Hammer” stepped over the body of one of his fallen crew without a trace of care or concern. The air was rushing past him, like a wind, out into space through the wounds in the side of his ship. Fatigued and desperate, the Hammer was running out of options. His ship was a mess, holed in a dozen places, the life support systems failing. Weakened hull sections were collapsing in pressure bursts. The vibrations that shook the deck beneath him now were not from the engines that once drove her forward, but now from the explosions down below, tearing her apart.

The value in my room is neither my Television nor my bank note. The value in my room is myself! Why? Because even if I lose everything I have, but still get me, I am coming back with full passion and desperation to climb the unclimbed hills again and again!

To be desperate in your search for something is to get it

There was always an opportunity in crisis, however desperate things seemed.

When a desperate, hungry spirit appears and makes the guinea pigs squeal it is because he knows where to put the live wire of sex, because he knows that beneath the hard carapace of indifference there is concealed the ugly gash, the wound that never heals.

Why am I so weak, why do I care so much? What is holding on, what's wrong with me..

You don't know what it is to want a man, any man. I wish I could discover some respectable male prostitutes, like civil servants or university dons who do it in their spare time for a bit of pocket money, there must be such people.

You get people who think you have a mental disorder, people calling you frigid, but I don’t care. If they’re that desperate, clearly THEY have a problem.

Adolescence involves our nutty-desperate-ecstatic-rash psychological efforts to come to terms with new bodies and outrageous urges.

You're desperate, and so am I,' I said. 'Desperate people make stupid decisions all the time.'" P244

Within her simple, terrified mind, swift calculations of distance and speed were at work, and her face advertised the disappointing results.

A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy.

All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.

A monk's extraordinary patience can be a hindrance to desperate decision-making.

And I suppose tapes are a desperate attempt to steal something from Death's suitcase.

Anyone who is desperate or alone will agree there is comfort in routine.

As people get more desperate, history suggests that they're not going to rise in a mighty proletarian tidal wave and wash away their oppressors. They're gonna turn on each other.

Business practices and how we treat the planet are also in desperate need of re-humanization.

But a desperate heart will seduce the mind.

By trying to control everything we become very neurotic, more and more desperate. It's a huge tragic thing.

Christians can trust God to redeem even the greatest of tragedies and the most desperate of situations.

You're reaching out And no one hears you cry You're freaking out again 'Cause all your fears Remind you another dream has come undone You feel so small and lost like you're the only one You wanna scream 'cause you're Desperate You want somebody, just anybody To lay their hands on your soul tonight You want a reason to keep believin' That someday you're gonna see the light You're in the dark There's no one left to call And sleep's your only friend Well even sleep Can't hide you from all those tears And all the pain and all the days You wasted pushin' them away It's your life, it's time you face it

Desperate times call for desperate analogies.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Desperate is not a sexual preference.

Desperate courage makes One a majority.

Desperate ills need desperate remedies.

Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it.

Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.

despite all our desperate, eternal attempts to separate, contain and mend, categories always leak.

Desperate affairs require desperate remedies.

Desperate men do desperate things when you take hope away. And that's where the Palestinians are today.

Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen.

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

Empirically, all pornography is made under conditions of inequality based on sex, overwhelmingly by poor, desperate, homeless, pimped women who were sexually abused as children.

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.

And now I understand that truth casts a spell of its own, one I'm not sure of how to hold on to, though I'm desperate to try.

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

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

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

Haiti is in desperate poverty.

Haste is needful in a desperate case.

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 am absolutely desperate to win a Super Bowl.

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

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

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