I feel like what I have become is halfway between my mother and my father, violent and impulsive and desperate and afraid.… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
It's increasingly clear that governments, major corporations, banks, universities and other such bodies view the defense of their secrets as a desperate… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
'Tampopo' is a deeply odd film about Japan, ramen noodles, love and sex. It made me very hungry and desperate to travel… — Jamie Cullum Copy Share Image
I see the sharp inequality between how Haitian and Cuban refugees are treated in Florida. Both groups come here because their lives… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
You go from these high hopes when you're writing to just a desperate want of not making a complete fool of yourself… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
Christians can trust God to redeem even the greatest of tragedies and the most desperate of situations. — Franklin Graham Copy Share Image
If in some smothering dreams you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
If I could've had the things that Americans throw away, I never would've escaped North Korea. That's how much we were desperate. — Park Yeon-mi Copy Share Image
Now a movie goes out to two, three thousand theaters and by Friday night at 10 o'clock they know if you are… — Mark Rydell 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
It was Vivaldi's Mandolin Concerto, Francesca Abraham realized as the radio alarm went off. Lively, unrelentingly upbeat, it was the perfect tempo… — Naomi Ragen Copy Share Image
It'sthe fate of most Ping-Pong tables in home basements eventually to serve the ends of other, more desperate games. — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
All poetry and music, and art of every true sort, bears witness to man's continual falling in love with beauty and his… — John Bertram Phillips Copy Share Image
“Go to where ever dreamland you decide on. But go with passion hand-in-hand. You will never be tired on the way!” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I grew up on my dad's sets, but I was never star-struck or desperate to be famous. I grew up being a… — Katharine Isabelle Copy Share Image
Place your army in deadly peril, and it will survive; plunge it into desperate straits, and it will come off in safety. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
I love Scotland and I speak about it a lot, so people think I'm desperate to go back. They just take it… — Billy Connolly Copy Share Image
It's no fun to be a struggling young actor. It's a desperate thing, no way to be happy. If you have any… — Tommy Lee Jones Copy Share Image
Show me two villages, one embowered in trees and blazing with all the glories of October, the other a merely trivial and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Creators understand that their emotions are not necessarily a sign of the circumstances. They understand that in desperate circumstances they may experience… — Robert Fritz Copy Share Image
You know how many reasons we have to be desperate and despairing, the world is not learning anything. We have seen that. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I think the voters who voted for Donald Trump certainly are willing to tolerate a lot of ugliness, but maybe, if you're… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
OPEC production went from 30 million barrels a day to 33 million. They flooded the market, and it's lost them a lot… — Gary Shilling Copy Share Image
But Sarah Weddingtonhad never told me that what I was signing would allow women to use abortions as a form of birth… — Norma McCorvey Copy Share Image
