Desperate Quotes · Page 13

“She was in a situation that was desperate enough to allow her life to be manipulated.”

— Alessandra Torre

There's a lot of good midfielders all desperate to play for their country and all I can do when I get called…

— John McGinn

A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.

— Elia Kazan

“I know what that feels like. I know what it’s like to care about someone so much they make you desperate.”

— M. Leighton

So the challenge for us is to live in such a way that we are radically dependent on and desperate for the…

— David Platt

“God is very patient with us when we are desperate. Pour out your soul to him.”

— Timothy Keller

“I mean, it's a good job we've got a last desperate million-to-one chance to rely on, or we'd really be in trouble!”

— Terry Pratchett

Some folks hide and some folks seek, and seeking when its mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous, can be a form of hiding.

— Tom Robbins

No war can end war except a total war which leaves no human creature on earth. Each war creates the causes of…

— Zelda Popkin

Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and…

— Alice Miller

'Desperate Housewives' worked out beautifully. I went out for that before it began airing, and no one had any idea it was…

— Sam Lloyd

Here we are at the edge of the world, the very edge of Western civilization, and all of us are so desperate…

— M.I.A

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

I feel maybe at times I've just been a bit too desperate to do well, almost tried too hard. But even though…

— Jos Buttler

that crack of the bat against a ball has been my mantra, a sound I hear in desperate moments, at times when…

— Lucy Jane Bledsoe

The truth is, however rich people get, they hate paying tax. Some live abroad for a year, or years at a time…

— Clint Black

I think people are a mixture of everything. I like desperate characters because they do things that most of us normally wouldn't…

— Richard Shepard

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

Inasmuch as art preserves, with the promise of happiness, the memory of the goal that failed, it can enter, as a 'regulative…

— Herbert Marcuse

Some people live their lives as if each day will be their last. Some approach love the same way, in a desperate…

— Tonya Hurley

A new space race has begun, and most Americans are not even aware of it. This race is not about political prestige…

— Ben Bova

Generally, the shaking is consciously felt in its positive aspects — as the wonderful new heaven and earth which love with its…

— Rollo May

Things change when you learn to loosen your grip. I think one way and the future is desperate. I think another way…

— Tim Finn

The tempest was terrible and separated me from my [other] vessels that night, putting every one of them in desperate straits, with…

— Christopher Columbus

I would love to work with everyone, but I am not desperate. Things will happen eventually.

— Raashi Khanna

At this crucial time in our lives, when everything is so desperate, when every day is a matter of survival, I don't…

— Nina Simone

“Then I feel more desperate. People die. We are not permanent. We have to hurry if we want things.”

— Tarryn Fisher

“I am short and plain and far too particular in my tastes to settle for any man desperate enough to pay me…

— Cheryl Bolen

Poverty breeds a lot of things. When people are desperate and trying to survive, they do drastic things.

— Damian Marley

writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers.

— Charles Bukowski

In many situations that seemed desperate, the artillery has been a most vital factor.

— Douglas MacArthur

Prison, blood, death, create enthusiasts and martyrs, and bring forth courage and desperate resolution.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Desperation will drive you to do things you know will never make you whole again and even to lose the very thing…

— Laura Miller

Madonna reinforces everything absurd and offensive. Desperate womanhood. Madonna is closer to organized prostitution than anything else.

— Steven Morrissey

“I am a desperate romantic. I love the idea of random collisions of the heart.”

— Jessica Thompson

“Diseases desperate grown, By desperate appliance are relieved, Or not at all.”

— William Shakespeare

Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.

— Adrienne Rich

I was just desperate to make stuff. That's really what I learned about myself.

— Cord Jefferson

Politicians used to be leaders. Now they follow voters, desperate for a tick in a box.

— Katie Hopkins

When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can.

— Julian Fellowes