Desperate Quotes · Page 23

Don't blame or feel desperate to someone who doesn't love you because it's his or her nature

— Tivea

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“[...] A society that drives its members to desperate solutions is a non-viable society, a society to be replaced.”

— Kathy Acker

“When people don't tell you the truth what they really are saying is they don't value you or their relationship with you…

— Shannon L. Alder

Begging for votes or attention feels desperate, and I like to save that for thirst traps on Instagram.

— Gabby Windey

My backpack has seven or eight DVDs in it and four or five of them have been there three months and I'm…

— Lorenzo di Bonaventura

I was just desperate to make stuff. That's really what I learned about myself.

— Cord Jefferson

His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.

— Edmund Wilson

“Really? I'm trying to place you. It seems like we've met before." Did I just issue him a pick up line? Fantastic,…

— Jamie McGuire

If you start getting yourself into just doing stuff for the money, even if it's a desperate situation, I just firmly believe…

— Anthony Green

As a player, if a club is desperate to sign you, then you can benefit from that. Desperate clubs are prepared to…

— Diego Forlan

For the ANC to cry 'sabotage' the night before crucial local government elections shows just how desperate they are to disguise their…

— Helen Zille

I'm desperate to arrive... to this next phase where we can just exist and be fully liberated from the confines of having…

— Greta Lee

When we recognize the rod of a father, should we not show ourselves docile children rather than rebelliously desperate men who have…

— John Calvin

The one thing that Jessica [Johnson] and Miles[Morales] have in common is that there's a great many people in the audience who…

— Brian Michael Bendis

Soldiers, I had lately like to have been taken from you by the attempt of a few desperate men, but by the…

— Alexander the Great

Nature, the sun itself, produces color effects... instantaneously. The impression of these evanescent visions is what we make desperate attempts to catch…

— Joaquin Sorolla

Why does the longing for love have to be so acute, like a desperate thirst? Is it because love is wanting to…

— Jonathan Hull

Communism wasn't a word that I thought of when I went to Cuba. The original Fidelistas were not Communists. They were graduate…

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I stared into Jared's eyes, and the strangest thing happened. All the melting and melding I had just been through was shoved…

— Stephenie Meyer

If I like hardcore straight-edge punk music, gentle psychedelic folk music, gangster rap, indie-rock with a lot of guitar pedals, and I…

— Jeffrey Lewis

On dispersive ground, therefore, fight not. On facile ground, halt not. On contentious ground, attack not. On open ground, do not try…

— Sun Tzu

The faltering of our suburban living arrangement is probably certain. The response of suburbanites is not. Will they elect maniacs who promise…

— James Howard Kunstler

We must not only control the weapons that can kill us, we must bridge the great disparities of wealth and opportunity among…

— Muhammad Ali

I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to…

— Augusten Burroughs

Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Politicians used to be leaders. Now they follow voters, desperate for a tick in a box.

— Katie Hopkins

When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can.

— Julian Fellowes

Prison, blood, death, create enthusiasts and martyrs, and bring forth courage and desperate resolution.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Desperation will drive you to do things you know will never make you whole again and even to lose the very thing…

— Laura Miller

Madonna reinforces everything absurd and offensive. Desperate womanhood. Madonna is closer to organized prostitution than anything else.

— Steven Morrissey

In many situations that seemed desperate, the artillery has been a most vital factor.

— Douglas MacArthur

“I am a desperate romantic. I love the idea of random collisions of the heart.”

— Jessica Thompson

“Diseases desperate grown, By desperate appliance are relieved, Or not at all.”

— William Shakespeare

Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.

— Adrienne Rich

“Then I feel more desperate. People die. We are not permanent. We have to hurry if we want things.”

— Tarryn Fisher

At this crucial time in our lives, when everything is so desperate, when every day is a matter of survival, I don't…

— Nina Simone

writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers.

— Charles Bukowski

Poverty breeds a lot of things. When people are desperate and trying to survive, they do drastic things.

— Damian Marley

“I am short and plain and far too particular in my tastes to settle for any man desperate enough to pay me…

— Cheryl Bolen