Best 211 quotes in «desperate quotes» category

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

There's this huge number of desperate people.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 don't need to respond with desperate violence.

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