It's true - women want the fantasy. So give them romance - but without the desperation, wondering, and waiting you see in… — Nadine Velazquez Copy Share Image
We don't attack any veteran, at all, ever, for their service record. We thank them. And the fact that somebody wanted to… — Matt Shea Copy Share Image
“He needed her so badly, to reassure himself of his own existence, that he never comprehended the desperation in her dazzling, permanent… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
For most Black people there is still poverty and desperation. The Ghettos still exist, and the proportion of Blacks in prison is… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Studies of people who report high well-being in their fifties and sixties indicate that they have lived lives that involved personal risks.… — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
“I am not a doctor,' I replied, 'I only help those who come to me in desperation. When a man is brought… — Theresa Breslin Copy Share Image
I would still ask the government not to drive the people of India to desperation, or else there is no other course… — Muhammad Ali Jinnah Copy Share Image
Honduras has become a murder capital of the world; there's horrible atrocities, infanticide, murder of women is way up, and people are… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Summer came. For the book thief, everything was going nicely. For me, the sky was the color of Jews. When their bodies… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
It's tough, it's not the scenario that we wanted for sure. I thought our desperation was there, we worked hard, but it… — Sidney Crosby Copy Share Image
Sophia and Grandmother sat down by the shore to discuss the matter further. It was a pretty day, and the sea was… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
I feel a desperation to make people see what we are doing to the environment, what a mess we are making of… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
“Your arms ache to hold someone -- you move in slow motion from one hug to the next so you won't jostle… — Sarah Tregay Copy Share Image
I've always wanted my music to have that desperation, where you just want to strip your clothes off and run down the… — Tove Lo Copy Share Image
Within legal enforcement of "morality," there is no sense of how to morally, ethically, or fairly help people live safer lives. It's… — Terre Thaemlitz Copy Share Image
“I think our last kiss was meant to be quick and chaste, but after the first touch of his lips fire leaped… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
“There he must, despite the anguish devouring his brain, present a face approximating the one that is associated with ordinary events and… — William Styron Copy Share Image
She'd assumed she'd be married and have kids by this age, that she would be grooming her own daughter for this, as… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Sometimes I will tweet things without an audience in mind at all, just because I want to say something that I don't… — Mira Gonzalez Copy Share Image
“We're not going to make it," I said. The words caught in my throat, choking me. What was it Leslie had said… — Brian Keene Copy Share Image
Eragon cried out, and in his desperation he reached for Saphira and the Eldunarí... and without meaning to, he drew from their… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
Civilizations grow by agreements and accomodations and accretions, not by repudiations. The rebels and the revolutionaries are only eddies, they keep the… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Whereas formerly, before the advent of machinery, the commonest article you could pick up had a life and warmth which gave it… — Harold Speed Copy Share Image
“I intend to marry you in six weeks," he said, making his voice hard to mask his desperation, "whatever the cost. Tell… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Lies are just another kind of storytelling, but with the very distinct and enlivening motive of desperation. Since writers are by nature… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
“We sensible often resist intrusive love and its chaos practically, employing measures to prevent the former for fear of the latter. But… — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
I'd learned how to lie and manipulate from an early age so a combination of that, desperation, having to have my own… — Tom Hardy Copy Share Image
Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“The "more" of Christianity is a myth; a deceitful illusion designed to keep you busy and running in circles, always seeking but… — D.R. Silva Copy Share Image
“For the vile human pigs in life; the sloppy, disheveled, uncaring dregs, the ungrateful, and especially for the vicious, negative emotional peasants… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
The intellect of most men is barren. They neither fertilize or are fertilized. It is the marriage of the soul with nature… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As long as you and I understand salvation as checking off a box to get to God, we will find ourselves in… — David Platt Copy Share Image
Desperation compels us to pray with fervent, focused faith - especially when we have no one else to turn to. God honors… — Anne Graham Lotz Copy Share Image
“New rules—we needed new rules. No one opens the main doors but me. No one leaves the property without me. No one… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
Three and a half years in L.A. was enough for me. I would love to go back for short bursts if a… — Darren Boyd Copy Share Image
I'd love to be a director-for-hire and get a nice paycheck and captain one of those big ships, but I think studios… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
“You told me, if something is not used it is meaningless, and took my temperature, which I had thought to save for… — Rosmarie Waldrop Copy Share Image
The more two people open to each other, the more this wide-openness also brings to the surface all the obstacles to it:… — John Welwood Copy Share Image
Do you know what's one mistake we always make? Believing that life's immutable, that once you get on a particular track you… — Susanna Tamaro Copy Share Image
Though my natural instinct is to wish for a life free from pain, trouble, and adversity, I am learning to welcome anything… — Nancy Leigh DeMoss Copy Share Image
