“Every married person he knew seemed desperate to chivvy others into matrimony, no matter how poor an advertisement they themselves were for… — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
“You let every other guy have you. You give away pieces of yourself like they’re candy.” I went rigid trying to make… — Christina Lee Copy Share Image
“and I couldn’t catch my breath, and my lungs were acting desperate, gasping, pulling me out of the bed trying to find… — John Green Copy Share Image
People only attempt perilous journeys like crossing the Channel because they are desperate. It is deeply concerning that men, women, and children… — Sajid Javid Copy Share Image
“A deceitful man will go as far as to trample all over a woman’s reputation and spirit, in order to prove to… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
We are in need of a way out of our poverty of soul and the desperate state of our human condition. We… — Stephen Nichols Copy Share Image
Years later Magnus would return to London and Camille Belcourt's side, and find it not all that he had dreamed. Years later… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I'm constantly looking at old photos of myself, photos of my friends and places I've been, listening to my old music. I… — Ethel Cain Copy Share Image
If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I haven't always wanted to be an actor, no. I wasn't one of the little kids that was desperate to be an… — Gemma Chan Copy Share Image
I yearn to live and love and burn, and yet so much of my time is spent faking and forgetting, faking and… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
Our generation may stand at a crucial breakpoint in history, for we in the presently affluent nations may be the last who… — Philip K. Chapman Copy Share Image
The main thing is that Ataturk saw the desperate condition of the countries that had not had an industrial revolution. Ataturk saw… — Ahmet Ertegun Copy Share Image
The legacy of the embargo will be Cuba's poverty and desperation. When the island comes out of it, they'll be even more… — Achy Obejas Copy Share Image
We are loaded down with too many good things, more than we could ever need, while others are desperate for a small… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare's Iago could be played as a soul in hell, driven, dark and desperate, willing to do anything, willing to use anyone,… — Laura Lee Guhrke Copy Share Image
The saints differ from us in their exuberance, the excess of our human talents. Moderation is not their secret. It is in… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
Uh-huh. You know with that sinister tone you should look into working for the IRS. I’m sure they’re desperate for people who… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“Isn't it amazing in life how one minute you are devastated by some news, but then, a few seconds later, your desperate… — Michael Gates Gill Copy Share Image
I was never desperate to work in Bollywood though I aspired to do a movie across the border but only if I… — Saba Qamar Copy Share Image
This is how the great post-partisan, post-racial, New Politics presidency ends - not with a bang, not with a whimper, but with… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
What Anacharsis said of the vine may aptly enough be said of prosperity. She bears the three grapes of drunkenness, pleasure, and… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
Before you give up, think of the reason what made the situation a mess.Like positive thinker look for an opportunity even in… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
I think mortality makes you live a fuller existence. When I was a kid I was scared of death, and maybe that's… — Dolph Lundgren Copy Share Image
I play until my fingers are blue and stiff from the cold, and then I keep on playing. Until I'm lost in… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
“I am all too aware of my own desperate need to find a message in the madness, and as it takes shape… — M.L. Rio Copy Share Image
Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers,… — Charles Mackay Copy Share Image
I guess they say, "Necessity is the mother of invention" because you have two stark choices when you find yourself in a… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
Our family has gone through a very difficult time. My husband and I have taken the brunt of it. I've never known… — Tracey Gold Copy Share Image
I feel like the writers that I'm drawn to, the writers that I really cling to, are the writers who seem to… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Football is based on desperation. All clubs are desperate in one form or another - desperate to succeed, desperate to survive, desperate… — Simon Barnes Copy Share Image
In every one of these haunting and hungry poems, Howell draws a map for how to enter the heat and dew of… — Nikky Finney Copy Share Image
If you find yourself desperate for money, you sometimes do whatever, but on the other hand, if you really want to be… — Jonas Armstrong Copy Share Image
It has taken Thomas Harris 11 years to publish the sequel to 'The Silence of the Lambs,' which suggests that while everyone… — Jeff Giles Copy Share Image
I think I'm slightly OCD. I'll be desperate to get a part, but as soon as I do, the sense of pride… — Will Poulter Copy Share Image
These are pictures of the people in my family where we look like the most awkward and desperate folk you ever saw,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I could have lied. I could have fought. But desperate times call for desperate measures, so I took a chance and called… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image