Desperation Quotes · Page 5

I would like to know how it feels for my desperation to get louder.

— Bill Withers

During exams, students look up for inspiration, down in desperation, and left and right for information.

— Anonymous

Because desperation breeds gullibility. People want to lose weight so much that their common sense shuts off.

— David L. Katz

It's such a dangerous thing for desperation to drive litigation.

— Neal Katyal

“Diseases desperate grown, By desperate appliance are relieved, Or not at all.”

— William Shakespeare

“I don't have anything to give you, except to show you a way to better yourself.”

— Kien Nguyen

Never allow yourself to be desperate. Desperate people take too much.

— Gian Lewis Joseph

In exams, we look up for inspiration, down for desperation, left and right for information.

— Nishan Panwar

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

Dreiser wanted to write the next great American novel, and his desperation pervades [ Sister Carrie ] like an unsavory pit stain.

— Theodore Dreiser

When you collect bad loans... you sure learn a lot about making good ones. You also learn a lot about the power…

— John Stumpf

“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

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

We are all, whether we know it or not, in search of a way to enrich, to drink during the fizz, to…

— May Sarton

“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

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

I see, or at least it appears to me, that there is some concerted effort to discredit them, and categorize the American…

— Leonard Peltier

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

Boxing is an American sport - a 'so-called sport' to many - in which images of incalculable beauty and violence, desperation and…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I had NO interest in being a theologian, especially not a Christian, as I had been raised by progressive atheists. We bowed…

— Anne Lamott

All of us, poor & rich alike, have been conditioned by our upbringings. Impoverished men & women may become lulled into a…

— John Green

Characters exist in a flat line until we challenge them - sometimes they challenge themselves, sometimes they're challenged by other people, by…

— Chuck Wendig

If increased government spending with borrowed or newly created money is a 'stimulus,' then the Weimar Republic should have been stimulated to…

— Thomas Sowell

Jesus beckons me to follow him to that place of weakness where I risk the vulnerability of a child so that I…

— Gary Haugen

“Don't mistake determination for desperation. Someone who is persistent will stop at nothing to get their way.”

— Mary Sage Nguyen

I hate when people do that desperate act just for attention.

— Robert Escalate

Creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique.

— Leonard Cohen

Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.

— Vernon Howard

Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.

— Benazir Bhutto

“Let the darkness transform into rock across the wilderness of my memory”

— Xiaobo Liu

Never compromise to keep someone or lower your standards out of desperation. You'll end up hurt or in sin. Wait on God.

— Anonymous

I am a person with no desperation and I live on hope, but the difference is that I do not compromise on…

— Suresh Gopi

Desperation will lead you down the road of false hope and false love.

— Anonymous

“When our embarrassment level is exceeded by our desperation level, we are a good candidate for God's grace.”

— Peter Lord

“Desperation sends out the wrong messages, sends out the wrong vibrational output.”

— Stephen Richards

A lot of people didn't feel attracted to Labour, so they voted in desperation for other things.

— Jeremy Corbyn

I've been traveling a lot, and I'm seeing a lot of desperation everywhere in America. A lot of sad desperation.

— Matt Drudge

“All transformation appears to be motivated by desperation and emergency.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Desperation works in job search as well as it does in dating.”

— Darrell Gurney

Better to seek change by inspiration, than out of desperation.

— Denis Waitley