Best 211 quotes in «desperate quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

I've never been desperate to please my father.

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

Paradise is to be the ultimate instrument, fulfilling God's desperate intent that we love each other.

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.

Maybe it'll stop you trying to be so desperate about making more money than you can ever use? You can't take it with you, Mr. Kirby. So what good is it? As near as I can see, the only thing you can take with you is the love of your friends.

Nations, like individuals, cannot become desperate gamblers with impunity. Punishment is sure to overtake them sooner or later.

Necessity urges desperate measures.

No one really has the power, and everybody's trying to get through the day, and everybody's nervous and desperate.

On the streets of the city They have taken my Who-I-Am As well as my What-I-Was And now I am desperate for them both Again

Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained.

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.

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

No, truth is something desperate, an' she's got it. Believe me, it's something desperate, an' she's got it.

Obama was quite serious when he said he was going to change the world. And now he has a national crisis, a personal mandate, a pliant Congress, a desperate public - and, at his disposal, the greatest pot of money in galactic history.

Old love, middle love, the kind of love that knows itself and knows that nothing lasts, is a desperate shared wildness.

Once you base your whole life striving on a desperate lie, and try to implement that lie, you instrument your own undoing.

People need me. I fill them. If they can't see me for a while they get desperate, they get sick. But if I see them too often I get sick. It's hard to feed without getting fed.

Something is profoundly wrong and we are desperate for justice, for restoration and for somebody somewhere to do something about this.

Pritkin kissed like he did everything else, straightforward, accepting no prisoners and with an intensity that left me breathless. It was hot and hard and desperate, like he was starving for it, and I opened my mouth and took it, because, God.

She stays in the same spot, anchored by the profound, desperate loneliness of a bad relationship.

She was desperate and she was choosey at the same time and, in a way, beautiful, but she didn't have quite enough going for her to become what she imagined herself to be.

Single gals aren't all a bunch of Bridget Joneses, desperate for love.

Place your army in deadly peril, and it will survive; plunge it into desperate straits, and it will come off in safety.

Prayer is never just an emergency flare or desperate anxious gamble. God's attention is not based on our performance but parental love.

Printing money is the last resort of desperate governments when all other policies have failed.

Some folks hide and some folks seek, and seeking when its mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous, can be a form of hiding.

So the challenge for us is to live in such a way that we are radically dependent on and desperate for the power that only God can provide.

Superheroes were born in the minds of people desperate to be rescued.

Strolling on the plateau of life, desperate for the mountain, I never thought that I would get this far. It's only art that has carried me through, given me faith in my own existence. But now I am approaching a point in my life where I desire more.

Suicide is a desperate attempt to get out of what seems to be an intolerable situation. It appears to be a way of escape from the pain of living.

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