Lies are just another kind of storytelling, but with the very distinct and enlivening motive of desperation. Since writers are by nature… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
The Ogre does what ogres can, Deeds quite impossible for Man, But one prize is beyond his reach: The Ogre cannot master… — Anonymous 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 see that in the future, things that we have lost in the past will be recovered. There's a search for those… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
My love is as a fever, longing still For that which longer nurseth the disease, Feeding on that which doth preserve the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I didn't know what hate felt like, not the hate that comes after love. It's huge and desperate and it longs to… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I think comedy is difficult, and I'm amazed so many people want to do it. I'll be buying jeans and somebody will… — Billy Connolly 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
Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“It’s not okay,” I tell her. This gets her attention; it’s not what she was expecting. “You don’t have to be okay.”… — Jasinda Wilder Copy Share Image
Show me two villages, one embowered in trees and blazing with all the glories of October, the other a merely trivial and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
Desperation compels us to pray with fervent, focused faith - especially when we have no one else to turn to. God honors… — Anne Graham Lotz Copy Share Image
I used to believe that love and happiness were synonymous. I was a fool. Love intensifies all emotions. Nothing is so painful… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
My office is in a building in midtown Chicago. It's an older building, and not in the best of shape, especially since… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
It is my secrecy which makes you unhappy, my evasions, my silences. And so I have found a solution. Whenever you get… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Rosemary bubbled with delight at the trunks. Her naivete responded whole-heartedly to the expensive simplicity of the Divers, unaware of its complexity… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
We have on the one hand a desperate need; hunger, sickness, and the dread of war. We have, on the other, the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
I can’t count the times I have lagged seemingly hopelessly far behind, and nobody except myself thinks I can win. But I… — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
There is something about this process, and about the whole 8 x 10 [camera] business, that takes it out of the arena… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, little people like you and me, if our prayers are sometimes granted, beyond all hope and probability, had better not draw… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Avalon is full of desperate people.’ She bites at her lower lip this time, fumbling her hands, knitting her fingers into the… — Charlotte Munro Copy Share Image
Amazingly, we take for granted that instinct for survival, fear of death, must separate us from the happiness of pure and uninterpreted… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
For a female to write about her feelings, and then be portrayed as some clingy, insane, desperate girlfriend in need of making… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
Well, birthdays are merely symbolic of how another year has gone by and how little we've grown. No matter how desperate we… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
At least one reason for trying to live lives that make a difference is that by so living, we hope we will… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Thunderously, inarguably, the Sermon on the Mount proves that before God we all stand on level ground: murderers and temper-throwers, adulterers and… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
OPEC production went from 30 million barrels a day to 33 million. They flooded the market, and it's lost them a lot… — Gary Shilling Copy Share Image
When our individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for, we are in desperate need for something apart from us… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“My phone rang immediately, and once I answered, Oli’s voice filled my ear. “Let me hear you come.” “I want to, but… — Santino Hassell Copy Share Image
There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
One would think that an unsuccessful volume was like a degree in the school of reviewing. One unread work makes the judge… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
“All at once I feel desperate, outraged. Why am I alone doomed to spend nights of torment, with an unseen jailer, when… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
Colonization means potential immortality for the human genus. Man's safety on Earth was never great, and it dwindles hourly. Disarmament, even world… — Poul Anderson Copy Share Image
“I was a prisoner inside my own body. I felt desperate, angry, stupid, confused, ashamed, hopeless and absolutely alone... and that this… — Carl Sutton Copy Share Image
“But I’m desperate for more from her. I’m desperate for something more permanent. And I do understand that it’s totally selfish of… — J.A. Huss Copy Share Image
I think the characteristics of really effective leaders when people are frightened and depressed are the same qualities that leaders need when… — Judith M Bardwick Copy Share Image
We must not only control the weapons that can kill us, we must bridge the great disparities of wealth and opportunity among… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
Laughter is something we have against oppression and oppressive people. Dictators hate people who laugh at them. It's easy for them to… — Burhan Sonmez Copy Share Image
![“I can’t count the times I have lagged seemingly hopelessly far behind, and nobody except myself thinks I can win. But I have pulled myself in from desperate [situations]. When you are behind there are two strategies - counter-attack or all men to the defences. I’m good at finding the right balance…” quote by Magnus Carlsen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/db3/magnus-carlsen-11607_balance_i-can-t-count-the-times-i-have-lagged-se_517000.png)
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