When you start reading nonfiction books about piracy, you…

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

— John Perkins

In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.

— Jesse Jackson

“A desperate people are a dangerous people.”

— K.F. Breene

“Words are plastic these days. Small loans made to desperate people at exorbitant interest rates are called payday advances. A cheesy hotel paired with…

— Dean Koontz

“Because desperate people cling to hope like sailors to their wreaks.”

— Kate Morton

“This was a matter of some small group of guerrillas in some distant caves, a primitive, fanatical, and desperate people who didn't have the…

— Isabel Allende

“Maputo was much praised as a desirable destination, but it was a dreary, beat-up city of desperate people who had cowered there while war…

— Paul Theroux

“Bosch had never liked Las Vegas, though he came often on cases. It shared a kinship with Los Angeles; both were places desperate people…

— Michael Connelly

(About Love)The most important thing in life, and you can't tell whether people have it or not. Surely this is wrong? Surely people who…

— Nick Hornby

There's this huge number of desperate people.

— Lloyd Alexander

“Desperate people do desperate things, and people with nothing left to lose are the most dangerous of them all.”

— Bella Forrest

“Actions fueled by desperation. They were the worst kinds of decisions, because desperate people could see the error of their ways and simply not…

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think.

— George Carlin

Imagine yourself acclaimed, a decorated national hero, an idol to millions of desperate people, then within six months, condemned to death by hanging.

— Joachim Peiper

Nothing is so dangerous for our security as large groups of desperate people.

— Marianne Williamson