I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If… — Jim Carrey 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
Some situations may push you to become desperate but don't forget the virtue of patience. Keep practicing it. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
Throughout it all, I loved her as much as I always had, and I found myself aching for those simpler times of… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I feel a desperation to make people see what we are doing to the environment, what a mess we are making of… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
“Betrayal is too kind a word to describe a situation in which a father says he loves his daughter but claims he… — Margaret Smith Copy Share Image
In the short stories - if I can make a very lumpy contrast - in the short stories I feel like the… — Charles D'Ambrosio Copy Share Image
I'm not someone who feels that unless I am anxious or depressed, there will be no creative drive. My greatest desire in… — Mark Duplass Copy Share Image
“For the vile human pigs in life; the sloppy, disheveled, uncaring dregs, the ungrateful, and especially for the vicious, negative emotional peasants… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“SONG OF DAWN I saw the sun rise by accident. It was a horrible sight. Annoyed by its splendor, I sought refuge… — John Tottenham Copy Share Image
Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
“He sank back into his black-and-white world, his immobile world of inanimate drawings that had been granted the secret of motion, his… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
My life growing up was a twisted Bronx version of 'The Color Purple.' It had a much different soundtrack and no trees,… — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
Guys can smell desperation. It triggers an instinct in them to run far and fast so they aren't around when a woman… — Janette Rallison Copy Share Image
On Painting Rats, and the Glorification of Them. They exist without permission. They are hated, hunted and persecuted. They live in quiet… — Banksy Copy Share Image
The worst curse to befall anyone is stagnation, a banal existence, the quiet desperation that comes out of a need for conformity. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“She had developed a number of habits in her younger years, none of which carried with them a bright future, and the… — Rachel Autumn Deering Copy Share Image
[I]n 1938, Superman appeared. He had been mailed to the offices of National Periodical Publications from Cleveland, by a couple of Jewish… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“The young doe, Marena, said, "In this very hour many of us are going to die. Perhaps I shall be one of… — Felix Salten 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
The intellect of most men is barren. They neither fertilize or are fertilized. It is the marriage of the soul with nature… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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