Desperate Quotes · Page 27

Christians can trust God to redeem even the greatest of tragedies and the most desperate of situations.

— Franklin Graham

When I was in desperate trouble for maybe eight or nine years, I went to a neuropsychiatrist.

— Gene Wilder

So many desperate girls posting pictures of their body parts to gain followers, why don't you go out and get a job.

— Anonymous

Never allow yourself to be so desperate that you end up settling for far less than what you deserve.

— Anonymous

“This desperate aversion to seeming like you wanted anything, or worse, to going after it, stayed with me for years after I…

— Curtis Sittenfield

I am desperate and vulnerable. ... I am always terrified… Beauty can sometimes be so very troublesome.

— Faye Dunaway

Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings.

— Gerhard Richter

I got my first job as a card-carrying actor in New York in 1967. Before that, I was a very desperate wannabe.

— Morgan Freeman

Politicians are really getting desperate. In fact, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid sent out a final fundraising email to Democrats with the…

— Jimmy Fallon

In the long run, the oppressor is also a victim. In the short run (and so far, human history has consisted only…

— Howard Zinn

All I want to say is that when you stop being delusional and start feeling desperate because you're too inept to figure…

— Veronica Roth

Never allow yourself to be so desperate that you compromise to end in settling for far less than what you deserve. You…

— Anil Sinha

And tonight our skin, our bones, that have survived our fathers, will meet, delicate in the hold, fastened together in an intricate…

— Anne Sexton

You might perhaps like to see the few canvases I was able to save from the bailiffs and the rest, since I…

— Claude Monet

My father could talk about the Romany way of life and its culture. He could talk about freedom and the Scottish spirit.…

— Sara Sheridan

I think humans have always been desperate. I think it has always been about doing something awful if it might help, when…

— Lauren DeStefano

Remember Killer Moth, the most ingenuous rogue ever to defy the dynamic duo, Batman and Robin ?Perhaps you recall how the weird…

— Bob Kane

I was doing a campaign once for a manufacturer, and I couldn't think of an ideas, and I was kind of desperate…

— David Ogilvy

Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. wThis is the first step towards…

— William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

I tell of hearts and souls and dances... Butterflies and second chances; Desperate ones and dreamers bound, Seeking life from barren ground,…

— Karen Kingsbury

I was quite surprised when I started looking at the lyrics for 'Punk Prayer'. Given its brutal style, I did not expect…

— Moddi

I grew up in a remarkable home, the middle of seven children. My parents raised us well. They loved us well. We…

— Tullian Tchividjian

Have you ever longed for someone so much, so deeply that you thought you would die? That your heart would just stop…

— Tracey Emin

I always felt bad for Mother Teresa. Mother Teresa lived a whole life helping starving children and dying villages, but she could…

— Gilbert Gottfried

“Desperate and lonely, I was determined to find solace in the arms of another”

— Nancy B. Brewer

How desperate are you that you would call upon such lost creatures to defend you? -Loki

— The Avengers

“Maybe when you're married, you'll have a better idea of what desperate lengths you'll go to...for your sake,I hope not.”

— Lisa Kleypas

The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God's joke on humanity. It is man's last desperate stand at superintendency.

— Bette Davis

My parents are desperate, they keep saying: 'Please stop doing these angsty roles; make it easier for us.' So, yeah, I'd love…

— Ruth Wilson

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

— Michel de Montaigne

She stays in the same spot, anchored by the profound, desperate loneliness of a bad relationship.

— David Levithan

I'm desperate to play Champions League football, and that's why I have to leave Villa.

— Gareth Barry

I think a lot of comedians are desperate to show their serious side, but I got that off my chest early on…

— Kayvan Novak

“They're desperate or crazy or both. That's enough to make anyone dangerous.”

— Octavia E. Butler

Lego for many parents is the antithesis of the high tech world. We are desperate to wean our little ones away from…

— Ben Fogle

“It was a strategy as old as time. Make people desperate enough and they obeyed.”

— Debra Webb

She hated that she was still so desperate for a glimpse of him, but it had been this way for years.

— Julia Quinn

Desperate for changing, starving for truth. I'm closer to where I started, I'm chasing after you. I'm falling even more in love…

— Anonymous

There is a difference between love & being desperate for a relationship because of the fear of being alone.

— Anonymous

Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes.

— George Santayana