Desperate Quotes · Page 26

Never be desperate. Get rid of insecurities. Believe in yourself. Know what you want and go out and get it.

— Anonymous

I learnt not to be desperate in bad times and am learning not to be bullish when times are good.

— John Elkann

I've never met anyone who wanted to be a terrorist. They are desperate people.

— John Perkins

My disease is one of the best things that has happened to me; it has pulled me out of a quietly desperate…

— Tom O'Connor

Whenever you go up 2-0, you understand that teams are going to be desperate.

— Sue Bird

Never allow yourself to be so desperate that you end up settling for far less than that you deserve.

— Anonymous

It's always really funny to watch someone who really wants something who isn't getting it but who's desperate for it.

— Billy Eichner

The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God's joke on humanity. It is man's last desperate stand at superintendency.

— Bette Davis

I really feel like life will dictate itself. You should allow it to unfold as naturally as possible. Just go with the…

— Shania Twain

It explains why people come home from work or school and immediately switch on the television. They are not interested in the…

— Harold S. Kushner

Mainly because people were what they were and you couldn't change them. most of the time, they couldn't change themselves, even if…

— Charles Frazier

The nurses, I have already learned, are the ones who give us the answers we’re desperate for. Unlike the doctors, who fidget…

— Jodi Picoult

Our personalities seem dangerously to blur and overlap with our mother's; and, in a desperate attempt to know where mother ends and…

— Adrienne Rich

But I'd be lying if I didn't say that every time you go to make a film, you're desperate to either do…

— Paul Thomas Anderson

Women make a terrible mistake because they usually are so desperate to nest that they pick on schlubs and worthless pieces of…

— Judy Sheindlin

I felt stuck in the bottom of a wishing well. I was desperate to shout what I wanted, but I didn’t know…

— Amy Tan

“Hey, it’s Col. I’m standing in a soybean field outside of Gutshot, Tennessee, which is a long story, and it’s hot. K.…

— John Green

It was the upward-reaching and fathomlessly hungering, heart-breaking love for the beauty of the world at its most beautiful, and, beyond that,…

— Frederick Buechner

A Church worshipping as a Creature of the Word doesn't show up to perform or be entertained; she comes desperate and needy,…

— Matt Chandler

Aestheticism and radicalism must lead us to jettison reason, and to replace it by a desperate hope for political miracles. This irrational…

— Karl Popper

[If] the nature of ... government [were] a subordination of the civil to the ecclesiastical power, I [would] consider it as desperate…

— Thomas Jefferson

There is something about the literary life that repels me, all this desperate building of castles on cobwebs, the long-drawn acrimonious struggle…

— Raymond Chandler

A human hires a hit man to kill his cousin for money, boring. That same hit man botches the job twice, funny.…

— Jeaniene Frost

If you don't have anything useful to say then you attack people. If you feel that your house of cards has been…

— Benjamin Carson

“Maybe when you're married, you'll have a better idea of what desperate lengths you'll go to...for your sake,I hope not.”

— Lisa Kleypas

How desperate are you that you would call upon such lost creatures to defend you? -Loki

— The Avengers

“Desperate and lonely, I was determined to find solace in the arms of another”

— Nancy B. Brewer

I got my first job as a card-carrying actor in New York in 1967. Before that, I was a very desperate wannabe.

— Morgan Freeman

I think a lot of comedians are desperate to show their serious side, but I got that off my chest early on…

— Kayvan Novak

I'm desperate to play Champions League football, and that's why I have to leave Villa.

— Gareth Barry

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

— David Levithan

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

— Michel de Montaigne

My parents are desperate, they keep saying: 'Please stop doing these angsty roles; make it easier for us.' So, yeah, I'd love…

— Ruth Wilson

Never allow yourself to be so desperate that you end up settling for far less than what you deserve.

— Anonymous

So many desperate girls posting pictures of their body parts to gain followers, why don't you go out and get a job.

— Anonymous

When I was in desperate trouble for maybe eight or nine years, I went to a neuropsychiatrist.

— Gene Wilder

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

— Franklin Graham

Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings.

— Gerhard Richter

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

— Faye Dunaway

“This desperate aversion to seeming like you wanted anything, or worse, to going after it, stayed with me for years after I…

— Curtis Sittenfield