Patience is not just the avoidance of desperation, but the courage to wait for the best in the midst of serious desperations. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
Be moral. Be brave. Be a heart-whole man, strictly moral, brave unto desperation. Don't bother your head with religious theories. Cowards only… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Desperate and dammed persons share an affinity for flirting with danger; an infectious case of erotic morbidity fetters them to self-destruction.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Maybe it is desperation," I say. "Maybe we can't let things fall apart without trying. We can't let go of the people… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“My stomach lurched. I glanced with desperation at Jennifer, but she couldn’t help me. She’d already passed out. Great. She left me… — Joanna Mazurkiewicz Copy Share Image
As in all matters involving love, which has so many different meanings, you find that the feeling that we label 'love' is… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
Don't do this to us." He warned, his voice hoarse with angry desperation as he realize he was losing her. "You're letting… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
I want to know why I read as a child with such a frantic appetite, why I sucked the words off the… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
“The media and the movies are showing you their desperation as they insist in presenting to the masses information that is completely… — Dolores Cannon Copy Share Image
I learned to pray out of desperation. For most of us, this is how the adventure usually begins. When we finally get… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
“Please,' I say to the dirt floor of the brugh, to the earth itself. 'I will do whatever you want. I will… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
On the outside, Oscar simply looked tired, no taller, no fatter, only the skin under his eyes, pouched from years of quiet… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Countries like ours are full of people who have all of the material comforts they desire, yet lead lives of quiet (and… — Bernard Levin Copy Share Image
“To love, to live, to feel so much that your world keeps spinning, faster and faster, in that wonderful, chaotic mess of… — Sophia Whittemore Copy Share Image
“But commercialism is the last sinkhole of love, and when reached, by paths of desperation and paths of cruelty, misused emotions—all hope… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
“He climbed out of the car, feeling stiff and awkward with that hot heavy weight between his legs, that miserable unsatisfied ball… — Rachel Haimowitz Copy Share Image
I felt a constant, low-flying desperation, the kind you feel when you are trying, trying, trying to get something you will never,… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
I have ne'er been in a chamber with a lawyer when I did not wish either to scream with desperation or else… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“When there is silence, Give your voice. When there is darkness, Shine your light. When there is desperation, Offer hope.” — Tim Fargo Copy Share Image
“I know I shouldn't be doing this. I know I'm poking a wound, not healing it. I know there's no way to… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I just want someone to come up to me and kiss me and tell me that they're in love with me. I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Gazing at the typewriter in moments of desperation I console myself with three thoughts. Alcohol at six, dinner at eight, and to… — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image
It's true - women want the fantasy. So give them romance - but without the desperation, wondering, and waiting you see in… — Nadine Velazquez Copy Share Image
Let me do my work each day, and if the darkened hours of despair overcome me, may I not forget the strength… — Max Ehrmann Copy Share Image
I kick a man while he is down, in desperation. Desperation to show that I'm the Alpha and Omega. The leader, and… — SilentBlueJay Copy Share Image
Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of 'medicine.' That's something you might remind your New Age… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I don't know all that I'm searching for, but I just have this sense of desperation and urgency within me all the… — Caleb Plant Copy Share Image
Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it,… — Uma Thurman Copy Share Image
I need a consistency of my moods if there is to be any consistency in my style. I can't attempt to write… — Jim Carroll Copy Share Image
I have heard the screams of the people. I have heard and felt your desperation. Haiti will not perish. Haiti must not… — Jovenel Moise Copy Share Image
Economic desperation often drives wildlife destruction like poaching or illegal logging. But trade can help create powerful financial incentives for communities to… — Arancha Gonzalez Copy Share Image
'I don't need brains,' says the billionaire contemptuously. 'I'm brainy enough myself!' The broker cries out in desperation, 'What, in heaven's name,… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
Gloria Steinem's marriage is proof positive of the emotional desperation of ageing feminists who for over 30 years worshiped the steely career… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it not possible… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“What is love anyway? From my new vantage point, I realize that love is nothing more than a messy conglomeration of need,… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical.… — Harry Nilsson Copy Share Image
I think you want to show a level of transparency that breeds trust. You don't want to show a level of desperation… — Dave McClure Copy Share Image
“But there is nothing more beautiful than being desperate. And there is nothing more risky than pretending not to care.” — Rachel C. Lewis Copy Share Image
My desperation for UKIP to do well meant that I really packed the diary and the day in a way that, frankly,… — Nigel Farage Copy Share Image
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