Best 211 quotes in «desperate quotes» category

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

The Animals of the planet are in desperate peril and they are fully aware of this. No less than human beings are doing in all parts of the world, they are seeking sanctuary.

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

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.

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 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 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

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 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.

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