Desperate Quotes

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I'm less desperate now to express what's inside me, that's true - I act these days because it keeps me awake and interested, an eternal… — Emmanuelle Beart
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave. — Christian Nestell Bovee
I read that book 'Fat is a Feminist Issue', got a bit desperate halfway through and ate it. — Jo Brand
If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable. — Andre Breton
Are we not all desperate one way or another? — Taylor Caldwell
People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think. — George Carlin
I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate… — Jim Carrey
That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat… — Charlie Chaplin
'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
There's always somebody older, richer, more desperate than you. — Kirstie Alley
When I am not desperate, I am worthless. — Ivo Andric
If you want to get together in any exclusive situation and have people love you, fine - but to hang all this desperate sociology on… — Frank Zappa
The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It explains why people come home from work or school and immediately switch on the television. They are not interested in the program much of… — Harold S. Kushner
Desperate affairs require desperate remedies. — Carl von Clausewitz
Science unfolded her treasures and her secrets to the desperate demands of men, and placed in their hands agencies and apparatus almost decisive in their… — Winston Churchill
It always seems to me when the anti-suffrage members of the Government criticize militancy in women that it is very like beasts of prey reproaching… — Emmeline Pankhurst
When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard. — Sun Tzu
Anyone desperate enough for suicide... should be desperate enough to go to creative extremes to solve problems: elope at midnight, stow away on the boat… — Richard Bach
It's tough, it's not the scenario that we wanted for sure. I thought our desperation was there, we worked hard, but it was one game,… — Sidney Crosby

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