“You're desperate, and so am I,' I said. 'Desperate people make stupid decisions all the time.'" P244” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel It runs a headlong course to desperate… — John Ford 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
In Chhattisgarh, there is no Narendra Modi factor; people know that he only speaks lies and is desperate to become prime minister. — Charan Das Mahant Copy Share Image
I'm not desperate anymore or feeling weird about myself because I'm not working in this business. I'm older and wiser, and there's… — Melanie Griffith Copy Share Image
“Don't try to be the missing key in my life, and I won't be the unmatched lock, that doesn't let you in.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
He said he'd take most any old thing He was a desperate man but when I showed him the... He turned around… — Phil Harris Copy Share Image
I don't need a trailer; I don't need to have the luxuries of what is Hollywood, which is why I'm probably not… — Vicky McClure Copy Share Image
To work for libertarianism - to oppose the growth of government and aid the liberation of the individual - used to be… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
I certainly don't feel like I am desperate to run away from a film set. I love the hustle and bustle. Everything… — Saoirse Ronan Copy Share Image
America was founded on prayer. Therefore, the removal of prayer from its public life was a central part of its fall from… — Jonathan Cahn 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
And so gentlemen, I learned. Oh, if you have to learn, you learn; if you’re desperate for a way out, you learn;… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
We would be deceiving both ourselves and the people if we concealed from the masses the necessity of a desperate, bloody war… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
I had a desperate need to be Van Gogh or something. Some tremendous artist. Jack's so successful, what's wrong with me, why… — Kyle Gass Copy Share Image
We have a desperate need for producers in the [commercial Broadway] theatre, and it is very hard for them to get money… — Arthur Laurents Copy Share Image
The tragedy is that many of us are living desperate Christian life. Sunday comes and we get some strength, and then we… — Martyn Copy Share Image
“There's a hardness I'm seeing in modern people. Those little moments of goofiness that used to make the day pass seem to… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Since, according to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving: Hurry up. Speed… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I have four sons whom I love dearly. Suppose our lawn needed to be cut. I could say, "Boys, can you see… — George Sweeting Copy Share Image
The world of strict naturalism in which clever mathematical laws all by themselves bring the universe and life into existence, is pure… — John Lennox Copy Share Image
I showed her how I'd been making tiny cuts in my skin to let the badness and the pain leak out. They… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
When you need to be loved, you take love wherever you can find it. When you are desperate to be loved, feel… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
I love working in television, and I've been thrilled to be a part of so many wonderful shows. I worked with Lady… — Erich Bergen Copy Share Image
If there's someone out there for that ugly skank, there's someone out there for you. Just don't turn into a desperate freak… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“We are so desperate for external validation that we’ll even accept it from someone who may be lying to us.” — Nev Schulman Copy Share Image
Middle-class people are becoming desperate. It can cause a moral man to break bad. — Giancarlo Esposito Copy Share Image
By trying to control everything we become very neurotic, more and more desperate. It's a huge tragic thing. — Charlotte Rampling Copy Share Image
“Friend, lay hold with a desperate grasp, ere it is too late, on Freedom, on Tranquility, on Greatness of soul!” — Epictetus Copy Share Image
What is the use of preaching the Gospel to men whose whole attention is concentrated upon a mad, desperate struggle to keep… — William Booth Copy Share Image
Prayer is never just an emergency flare or desperate anxious gamble. God's attention is not based on our performance but parental love. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power. — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
“He loves her like a gambler loves a fast racehorse or a desperate man loves whiskey. That kind of love eats a… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
In my experience what I'm hearing from people now is that they're just desperate to hear about something else. — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
At the end of a career you're desperate more than ever for medals, grabbing as much as you can as you go. — Jamie Carragher Copy Share Image
Ever notice how the only time I smile is when you smile? Read between the lines for once, please... — Leslie Copy Share Image
You don't dare think whole even to yourself the entirety of a dear hope or wish let alone a desperate one else… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Along with a livable wage, many parents are desperate for quality affordable child care. — Kirsten Gillibrand Copy Share Image
“you think I"m that desperate?" "The raging hard-on jabbing at me says yes." ~Creed/Annika” — Sydney Croft Copy Share Image