Nations, like individuals, cannot become desperate gamblers with impunity. Punishment is sure to overtake them sooner or later. — Charles Mackay Copy Share Image
People always are desperate to have others acknowledge that they are different. — Adam Driver 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
I hate women like that. They're so desperate for the attention of men that they'd willingly betray and harm members of their… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
There is a difference between love & being desperate for a relationship because of the fear of being alone. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“It was a strategy as old as time. Make people desperate enough and they obeyed.” — Debra Webb Copy Share Image
“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
There is a new codeword going round school. DFS. It means 'desperate for sex.' It sounds like you are talking about the… — Rae Earl Copy Share Image
The causes that govern the heart appear to be wholly alien to the results achieved. Are the forces that moved a desperate… — Honore de Balzac 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
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
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
“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
“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
Humans in modern societies are driven by a perhaps desperate hope that they might find some way of mobilizing their theoretical and… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
“I loved my father, but I was not like him. I never needed to believe the best of people. I took them… — Marcel Theroux Copy Share Image
That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother's palm and… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“Surely, if we take on thinking partners––or, at the least, thinking servants––in the form of machines, we will be more comfortable with… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
"Face Again" is actually the most George Saunders-y song. Basically the verses, I'm describing a world where love is being killed, and… — How to Dress Well Copy Share Image
Policemen and laws can never replace customs, traditions and moral values as a means for regulating human behavior. At best, the police… — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
The people who perpetrated the terror of the World Trade Center and Pentagon bombings are something different because these people were obviously… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
(I)t is highly questionable whether when 'Europe speaks with one voice', as we are so often told it is doing, anyone is… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
She hated that she was still so desperate for a glimpse of him, but it had been this way for years. — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
“They're desperate or crazy or both. That's enough to make anyone dangerous.” — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
Lego for many parents is the antithesis of the high tech world. We are desperate to wean our little ones away from… — Ben Fogle Copy Share Image
I think a lot of comedians are desperate to show their serious side, but I got that off my chest early on… — Kayvan Novak Copy Share Image
She stays in the same spot, anchored by the profound, desperate loneliness of a bad relationship. — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I'm desperate to play Champions League football, and that's why I have to leave Villa. — Gareth Barry Copy Share Image
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 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
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Desperate and lonely, I was determined to find solace in the arms of another” — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
How desperate are you that you would call upon such lost creatures to defend you? -Loki — The Avengers Copy Share Image
Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I am desperate and vulnerable. ... I am always terrified… Beauty can sometimes be so very troublesome. — Faye Dunaway Copy Share Image
“This desperate aversion to seeming like you wanted anything, or worse, to going after it, stayed with me for years after I… — Curtis Sittenfield Copy Share Image
