Desperate Quotes

837 Desperate quotes by 688 unique authors

Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all the ploys recommended by these authors. Bump into him, trip… — Florence King
The end of a dissolute life is a desperate death. — Wilfred Bion
To Helen Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore… — Edgar Allan Poe
Euthanasia and assisted suicide are never acceptable acts of mercy. They always gravely exploit the suffering and desperate, extinguishing life in the name of the… — Pope John Paul II
The tempest was terrible and separated me from my [other] vessels that night, putting every one of them in desperate straits, with nothing to look… — Christopher Columbus
In LA, I mean, here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying others for the purposes of… — Heather Donahue
The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people. — Cornel West
At the last minute, from what I can gather, either Emmanuel Adebayor or his agent phoned us after they had agreed a deal with City… — Alex Ferguson
People today are desperate for leaders, but they want to be influenced only by individuals they can trust, persons of good character. — John C. Maxwell
Unrequited loveâ€“plain desperate aboveboard boy-chasingâ€“turned you into a salesperson, and what you were selling was something he didn't want, couldn't use, would never miss. Unrequited… — Elizabeth McCracken
But Sarah Weddingtonhad never told me that what I was signing would allow women to use abortions as a form of birth control. We talked… — Norma McCorvey
I only really cast people who are desperate to be in it - who were dying to be in it, whose talent I believed in… — Kenneth Branagh
I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading… — Augusten Burroughs
So the challenge for us is to live in such a way that we are radically dependent on and desperate for the power that only… — David Platt
For some days I quietly worked out in my own mind the metaphysics of Cosmic Unity. The more I thought about it, the more convinced… — Freeman Dyson
Consider why Germany, fighting a war on two fronts, desperate for fuel and materiel of every sort, would bother to load millions of Jews on… — Edgar Steele
Staring us in the face is the desperate plight of the poor. We don't need statistics to tell us that. They are flesh and blood… — Eva Burrows
Black is now in desperate need of a good idea. Or, to put it standard chess notation, +- — Mark Dvoretsky
Desperate courage makes One a majority. — Andrew Jackson
Millions of our fellow human beings continue to live as contemporary slaves, victims of abominable practices like human trafficking, forced labour and sexual exploitation. Countless… — Ban Ki-moon

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