“Hope is really just desire disguised, just desperation, aching, dressed up like a prayer.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have to approach every game with a level of desperation and we can't look at the series numbers. — Monty Williams Copy Share Image
“And here's to the blues, the real blues— where there's a hint of hope in every cry of desperation.” — David Mutti Clark Copy Share Image
When one hits the bottom of the Desperation Barrel, there is always someone down there. — Kelli Jae Baeli Copy Share Image
The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“Love me. You have destroyed everything! But if you love me, it can all be restored in a new form. Love me.” — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“You need to wake up and realize that you deserve more, and there is more waiting for you out there. Stop settling;… — Lebo Grand Copy Share Image
Some-one called my style 'sense of urgency' guitar playing and I've always admitted I often don't know where I'm going when I… — Richard Lloyd Copy Share Image
“I could smack her, punch her in the face, but then I see what she can't hide from me. I've seen it… — Mary Beth Miller Copy Share Image
So how can I hold Tobias’s desperation against him, like I’m better than him, like I’ve never let my own brokenness blind… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Hope is sometimes a fickle thing, my dear.” The endearment felt painful when spoken as part of such a heartbreaking conversation. “We… — Sarah M. Eden Copy Share Image
Maybe it is desperation. Maybe we can't let things fall apart without trying. We can't let go of the people we love. — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
I see, or at least it appears to me, that there is some concerted effort to discredit them, and categorize the American… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
Boxing is an American sport - a 'so-called sport' to many - in which images of incalculable beauty and violence, desperation and… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I think we're a kind of desperation. We're sort of a maddening luxury. The basic and essential human is the woman, and… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
But don't you see, all human decisions are made like this. Do you think the mother knows what will happen to the… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
My writing goal is just this desperation to get as much done as possible. It's never a comfortable, relaxed thing. Especially because… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
You can ask the people around me. I don't give up. I don't give up. I don't give - and it's not… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
A certain desperation is usually necessary before we're ready for God... Until your knees finally hit the floor, you're just playing at… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“One day Adam will realize that what he felt for me was just a crazy kind of desperation. We were two people… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
I started writing lyrics out of desperation. I was broke and wondering where my next job, my next meal was coming from,… — Sheldon Harnick Copy Share Image
“Don't mistake determination for desperation. Someone who is persistent will stop at nothing to get their way.” — Mary Sage Nguyen Copy Share Image
“Everything I did only made this emptiness grow because all my actions were reactionary. I acted in desperation, trying to run, trying… — Eva Yin Copy Share Image
I found meditation. It was more out of pure desperation: I just started to wake up at 5 and sit for one… — Vicky Krieps Copy Share Image
“No, if your life is without pain and anger and desperation then you are living it all wrong. You are not living… — Shaun Hick Copy Share Image
Global political conditions make a direct American intervention difficult, but President Reagan's messianic and visceral attitude toward the Nicaraguan revolution could mean… — Tomas Borge Copy Share Image
Because desperation breeds gullibility. People want to lose weight so much that their common sense shuts off. — David L. Katz Copy Share Image
“Desperation will drive you to do things you know will never make you whole again and even to lose the very thing… — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
Love me, I'll be anyobdy you want me to be. Use me. Change me. I can be thin with big breasts and… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The characters have desperation and it doesn't work out for everyone. Maybe it's not fair because I'm responding to the adaptations that… — Robert Sikoryak Copy Share Image
“it did occur to Tristan that this might not be the sanest moment of his life, but he couldn't allow lack of… — Z.A. Maxfield Copy Share Image
“I love you' is what people say when they have run out of words and can't say anything else. It is like… — Thomas Perry Copy Share Image
Well it's a drastic procedure by your standards and mine, but for the people who are living in desperation perhaps the best… — John Money Copy Share Image
We are all, whether we know it or not, in search of a way to enrich, to drink during the fizz, to… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“Opportunities to make plans together became virtually nonexistent, and it was in desperation that Harry, Ron, and Hermione took to volunteering to… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I worked out of desperation. I used to hit fast and run in hopes that people wouldn't realize that I really couldn't… — Betty Hutton Copy Share Image
Dreiser wanted to write the next great American novel, and his desperation pervades [ Sister Carrie ] like an unsavory pit stain. — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
When you collect bad loans... you sure learn a lot about making good ones. You also learn a lot about the power… — John Stumpf Copy Share Image
You can ask the people around me. I don't give up. I don't give up... and it's not out of frustration and… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
“How horrible to think what we may wish for, lay in anguish for, may be within our reach but we are unable… — D. Morgenstern Copy Share Image
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