“Because desperate people cling to hope like sailors to their wreaks.” — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Single gals aren't all a bunch of Bridget Joneses, desperate for love. — Anita Hamilton Copy Share Image
“I was like a little boy showing off my toys, desperate to win approval.” — P.D. James Copy Share Image
Place your army in deadly peril, and it will survive; plunge it into desperate straits, and it will come off in safety. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“These, to be sure, were farfetched hopes, hopes born of despair, but hope is, after all, mostly for the desperate.” — Reinaldo Arenas Copy Share Image
The desperate addict is closer to the heart of grace than the devout moralist. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
All the Democrats do is bicker. They're not concerned about the war or the fate of the United States of America. They're… — Jackie Mason Copy Share Image
“Her love had reached a point where now at last she was beginning to be unhappy, to be desperate.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love. — Delmore Schwartz Copy Share Image
When a person feels so trapped and no options, they become desperate and in the middle of desperation. — Paula White Copy Share Image
Sanctions and workfare make it easier for employers to impose insecure practices on desperate people. — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
Paul Lambert has assembled a great bunch of lads and training has been going very well. I am just desperate to get… — Kenny Dalglish Copy Share Image
I'm quite interested in adapting some of James Herbert's early work. 'The Dark'... But I was always desperate to do an adaptation… — Neil Marshall Copy Share Image
She was desperate and she was choosey at the same time and, in a way, beautiful, but she didn't have quite enough… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
In situations of sparse resources along with degraded self-images and depoliticized sensibilities, one avenue for poor people is in existential rebellion and… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Confusion is a gift from God. Those times when you feel most desperate for a solution, sit. Wait. The information will become… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't have specific people. There are so many people that I admire and there's directors that I'm desperate to work with… — Jamie Dornan Copy Share Image
The secret to happiness is to be working at your passion. If you want to be miserable, lead a desperate life like… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
It's people politics, people dynamics that make a show really good, whether it's 'Desperate Housewives' or 'Lost' or 'The Sopranos.' It's the… — Esai Morales Copy Share Image
We will suffer a sharp painful disullisionment before we fully surrender. When people really see themselves as the Lord sees them, it… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
How does God save His people from the pleasure of sin? The answer is, “By imparting to them a nature which hates… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
There are those individuals who die for a cause, and we say they have made the ultimate sacrifice. We call them martyrs,… — Ilsa J. Bick Copy Share Image
We have an almost desperate need for more women to run for office and for more women to really gut it out… — Mika Brzezinski Copy Share Image
It is unearned love--the love that goes before, that greets us on the way. It's the help you receive when you have… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Are we so desperate for entertainment that we will fall for a Trickless magician?? Saw a woman in half. Pull a rabbit… — Chris Rock 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
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
God does not answer our desperate questionings; he simply gives us himself. — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
Everyone wants, wants, wants... and when they have, they feel desperate. — Dani Alves Copy Share Image
