Success comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration, and inspiration! — Denise Austin Copy Share Image
During a test; people look up for inspiration,down in desperation, and left and right for information. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Art is always to a large extent about need, despair and hopelessness. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“The next time he spoke it was with fury, hope, and desperation all rolled together like a burrito of command.” — Drew Hayes Copy Share Image
Cut asparagus at night - in desperation. When one is very tired one always does one more thing. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“Well, she wore far too much rouge last night, and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of desperation in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“...don't you realize a flawless profile means nothing when a mere smile drives me to desperation? Don't you covet that power?..” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“You always have to be prepared that the thing we want most desperately to happen may not happen the way we think.… — Art Hochberg Copy Share Image
So many people get into lifeless comfy boring relationships for the sake of not being alone, stir up drama and cause each… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People only get married when they've no other option, out of panic or desperation or so as not to lose someone they… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
Ads answered out of desperation in the New York Review of Books proved equally futile as…the 'Bay Area Bisexual' told me I… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies'… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We all want to be loved and that's ok. What's not ok is being desperate on trying to find one. Desperation causes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Samaritan woman grasped what He said with fervor that came from an awareness of her real need. The transaction was fascinating.… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
It is good for God's people to be put in a place of longing so they feel a slight desperation. Only then… — Lysa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
'Betsy' is one of my favorites because it is the one to which I've imposed the least clear narrative. To me, it's… — Julia Holter Copy Share Image
“He could make her forget that it was desperation. He could make her forget everything. And this small room couldn't contain what… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
What little reality television I've seen seems to be about economic desperation. Like the marathon dancing of the Great Depression, which should… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Extreme anxiety, fear, exhaustion, and lack of other viable options are what cause a person to surrender everything. Desperation is also the… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“I believe in love and I believe that a healthy love stems from love for oneself, so it is never desperate, even… — Luigina Sgarro Copy Share Image
“When misfortune has thrown us a curveball, and the tentacles of desperation are freezing our mind, foreshadowing a hustle-bustle of confusion, we… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
For when last need to desperation driveth, Who dareth most he wiseth counsel giveth. [It., Che spesso avvien che ne' maggior perigli… — Torquato Tasso Copy Share Image
Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
The gift of willingness is the only thing that stands between the quiet desperation of a disingenuous life and the actualization of… — Jim McDonald Copy Share Image
Brevity is the soul of command. Too much talking suggests desperation on the part of the leader. Speak shortly, decisively and to… — Cyrus the Great Copy Share Image
You might as well ask why a middle-aged man with no criminal record might put a paper bag over his head and… — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
“Grace headed in desperation for the coffeemaker. Apparently it was going to be one of those mornings. Funny how often those happened… — Thea Harrison Copy Share Image
“With an utterly foreign sense of desperation, he did something that he’d never, in all his thirty-three years, thought he would do.… — Rhyannon Byrd Copy Share Image
“[W]hen "the rule of law" becomes absolutized and everything is done by the book or the computer, people call out in desperation… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
“One minute past desperation,” I whispered. “You have to wait one minute past desperation, Reid. That’s when it happens. You’ll get a… — Kate Stewart Copy Share Image
If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Creating something beautiful out of pain helps ease the pain. So, that's kind of how I got to songwriting - quite honestly… — Mary Gauthier Copy Share Image
We want something desperately and we try to force the God to give it up before it is ready. We want everything… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I knew that she couldn’t hear me if she was there. But the sound was enough to grab me, to hold me… — Shawn Kirsten Maravel Copy Share Image
If the people who hurt us have anger or desperation within them then they suffer. When you see that someone suffers, you… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
He gives my hand a tight squeeze, but that desperation, that urgency between us is gone. No insecurities. Max and Fang. Fang… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Let a man go down as low as possible; there must come a time when out of sheer desperation he will take… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Despair is not a particularly respectable condition and yet despair and delight alternate like systole and diastole in my heart. — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image