Desperate Quotes

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In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock. — Twyla Tharp
Jumping through any hoop or taking advantage of any desperate situation that comes up just to sell a product is harmful. It is. — Trent Reznor
Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press. — William Weld
Well, birthdays are merely symbolic of how another year has gone by and how little we've grown. No matter how desperate we are that someday… — Jerry Seinfeld
The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something… — Warren G. Bennis
When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful. — Edward Abbey
The other day, I was so desperate for a beer, I snuck into the football stadium and ate the dirt under the bleachers. — Homer
In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest. — Unknown Author
My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can… — Willem de Kooning
One day I think it's the greatest idea ever that I'm working on. The next day I think it's the worst that I've ever worked… — Eric Carle
The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is… — A B Yehoshua
These attacks prove one thing for certain: the liberal establishment is desperate to keep leaders like me out of office, and we are sure to… — Rand Paul
There is something about this process, and about the whole 8 x 10 [camera] business, that takes it out of the arena of the snapshot,… — Sally Mann
It has been hard to muster the resources to support fledgling democracies- or to help the world's most desperate - the AIDS orphan in Uganda,… — Condoleezza Rice
Sex and excretion are reminders that anyone's claim to round-the-clock dignity is tenuous. The so-called rational animal has a desperate drive to pair up and… — Steven Pinker
The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God's joke on humanity. It is man's last desperate stand at superintendency. — Bette Davis
Single gals aren't all a bunch of Bridget Joneses, desperate for love. — Anita Hamilton
The quantum entered physics with a jolt. It didn't fit anywhere; it made no sense; it contradicted everything we thought we knew about nature. Yet… — David Cassidy
Our first and true home was Paradise: a land that is both perfect and eternal. So the yearning for that type of life is a… — Yasmin Mogahed
Football is based on desperation. All clubs are desperate in one form or another - desperate to succeed, desperate to survive, desperate to stay where… — Simon Barnes

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