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
The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
You have not wasted your time; you have helped to save the world. We are not buffoons, but very desperate men at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I did a series of dark, desperate women shoots, my exhibitions weren't being well received, and then 9/11 happened, and I said… — Miles Aldridge Copy Share Image
I was just desperate to make stuff. That's really what I learned about myself. — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
When you're desperate, it's good on defense because your hair should be on fire, but it's bad on offense. — Mike D'Antoni Copy Share Image
When I go to Africa and spend more time there with people who are the least of the least, those in desperate… — Steven Curtis Chapman Copy Share Image
“I know what that feels like. I know what it’s like to care about someone so much they make you desperate.” — M. Leighton Copy Share Image
There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
His air of failure had nothing desperate about it; rather, it seemed to stem from an unresented realisation that he was not… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate. — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
The murders of Newtown are a warning to me - and you. Not a warning to see our schools as defenseless, but… — John Piper Copy Share Image
We have on the one hand a desperate need; hunger, sickness, and the dread of war. We have, on the other, the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile,… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
On dispersive ground, therefore, fight not. On facile ground, halt not. On contentious ground, attack not. On open ground, do not try… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Middle-class people are becoming desperate. It can cause a moral man to break bad. — Giancarlo Esposito Copy Share Image
This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
At this point in history, the desperate need for building a sustainable society and for managing energy usage makes for a really… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
I've been the desperate writer before. I wrote a novel, and they paid me for it, and I've had those calls from… — Tom King Copy Share Image
The nurses, I have already learned, are the ones who give us the answers we’re desperate for. Unlike the doctors, who fidget… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
