Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song. — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
When you start reading nonfiction books about piracy, you realize that it's actually just a history of desperate people. — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Yes, testosterone-sodden young men too unattractive to get a woman in this world might be desperate enough to go for 72 private… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“He calls me desperate (on my tombstone) I hope poetic license will allow: HUNGRY” — Eli Coppola Copy Share Image
The way the system now works, credit is extended to those who don't need it and denied to those who are in… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I'm not desperate but I know that some day I'll be the coach again of some team. — Diego Maradona Copy Share Image
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Dear Skeezie, Today I ran after a boy as he was trying to get away. I tackled him and we both landed… — James Howe Copy Share Image
The fanatic is not really a stickler to principle. He embraces a cause not primarily because of its justness or holiness but… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
One day we will have more inflation, and our bonds will bleed like a pig. The only reason for buying long bonds… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
In 1932, lame duck president Herbert Hoover was so desperate to remain in the White House that he dressed up as Eleanor… — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
It was when my children were 5, 3 and 10 months old that I just felt the desperate need to get to… — Anne Graham Lotz Copy Share Image
Maybe it'll stop you trying to be so desperate about making more money than you can ever use? You can't take it… — Lionel Barrymore Copy Share Image
There was a desperate undercurrent to our marriage--a feeling of being in a dream from which I couldn't seem to awaken. A… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
When you don't know where you fit inside the home and you're young and you're desperate to fit in somewhere, I'd figured… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
When a woman is frozen of feeling, when she can no longer feel herself, when her blood, her passion, no longer reach… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes 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
“Stick around, though. I’m going to need all the help I can get to figure all this out.” “That’s me! Mister Helpful.… — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
Iraqi Kurds, out of desperate necessity, have forged one of the most watchful and vigilant anti-terrorist communities in the world. Terrorists from… — Michael Totten Copy Share Image
“He wanted to write urgent love letters to her all day long and crowd the endless pages with desperate, uninhibited confessions of… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
The quantum entered physics with a jolt. It didn't fit anywhere; it made no sense; it contradicted everything we thought we knew… — David C. Cassidy Copy Share Image
Really important meetings are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other. Generally speaking, these meetings occur when we… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I wrote this book [ Desperate Marriages] because of my own marriage. My wife and I struggled greatly in the early years… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
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… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
Frontrunners always attract envy, and a desperate campaign to stop them in their tracks. — Kwasi Kwarteng Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I loved that woman in that desperate, all-consuming, she-could-break-me-with-one-word, way.” — Nicole Williams Copy Share Image
Some situations may push you to become desperate but don't forget the virtue of patience. Keep practicing it. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
“Within her simple, terrified mind, swift calculations of distance and speed were at work, and her face advertised the disappointing results.” — R.J. Lawrence Copy Share Image
We've poisoned our planet to a desperate degree. We have no idea of how severe the toxification is. — Benjamin Creme Copy Share Image
“something desperate, something ecstatic, some transference of, yes, energy” — Nickolas Butler Copy Share Image
Wherever you may seek solitude, men will ferret you out and compel you to belong to their desperate company of oddfellows. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The future is itself a story, and predictions are stories we tell to amaze ourselves, to give hope to the desperate, to… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained. — David Frum Copy Share Image
Legends were not only for the desperate. Legends were for the brave. (Soren) — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
The agency was desperate to get started with the commercials in 1976, but I was working on Star Wars. — David Prowse Copy Share Image
I need a Boyfriend. No...You WANT a Boyfriend. You NEED some water, because you sound THIRSTY — Toni Watson Copy Share Image
If all we seek is an escape, what does that say about the world we live in. We are desperate with our… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Something is profoundly wrong and we are desperate for justice, for restoration and for somebody somewhere to do something about this. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image