My 20s were all about feeling desperate. Desperate to find a new boyfriend. Desperate to get the perfect job. Desperate to get… — Jessi Klein Copy Share Image
Grieve only if you have committed a sin, but even in this case do not grieve too much, otherwise you may become… — Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov Copy Share Image
Traffic growled and snarled, rising at times to a machine-gun rata-tat-tat, while pedestrians were scuttling about with that desperate ratlike urgency characteristic… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
I felt stuck in the bottom of a wishing well. I was desperate to shout what I wanted, but I didn’t know… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Being outside the customs union would mean masses of new red tape, a desperate scramble for trade agreements and the re-emergence of… — Chuka Umunna Copy Share Image
I'm still trying to figure out exactly what President Trump represents in American politics. But, if nothing else, he represents a way… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Our idea of what constitutes social good has advanced with the procession of the ages, from those desperate times when just to… — Frances Perkins Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
In barely one generation, we've moved from exulting in the time-saving devices that have so expanded our lives to trying to get… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Since I spent eighteen years of my life as a child, and nine years of that life as a pretty sexually active… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems. I couldn't face the embarrassment, and anyway I lack the… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
I would never wear anything too revealing. I'm not a fan of dresses where you look nude... I think that looks a… — Naomie Harris Copy Share Image
Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
It's always hard to remember love - years pass and you say to yourself, Was I really in love, or was I… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet… — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
I wrote this book [ Desperate Marriages] because of my own marriage. My wife and I struggled greatly in the early years… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
You don't fall in love because you fall in love; you fall in love because of the need, desperate, to fall in… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Liberals have been driven to the desperate expedient of attributing . . .social pathology in today's ghettos to 'a legacy of slavery'… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Many who have voted for the AfD, or who intend to do so, aren't doing so because they are dyed-in-the-wool enemies of… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
You’re going to share a Moon Pie? Now? You know you can’t get any more of those until you go back to… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Essentially, if our secrets are secrets because we are told to be ashamed, then we must share them. There is no shame… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
My own theory is that people are just so desperate for somebody they can feel better than, in America. Now that everyone's… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image