Desperate Quotes

837 Desperate quotes by 688 unique authors

When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to… — George Lucas
Place your army in deadly peril, and it will survive; plunge it into desperate straits, and it will come off in safety. — Sun Tzu
I'm not desperate but I know that some day I'll be the coach again of some team. — Diego Maradona
We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff. — Stephen Malkmus
Because of President Obama's failed record on nearly every issue from the economy to the deficit to Medicare, the Obama campaign has become increasingly dirty,… — Reince Priebus
If you're not sure about whether to support Mitt Romney, whether you're liberal, or whether you're very conservative, you ought to be excited, because he's… — Louie Gohmert
Comely was the town by the curving river that they dismantled in a year's time. Beautiful was Colleton in her last spring as she flung… — Pat Conroy
I've sometimes thought that it's only by recalling that desperate devotion my kids once felt for me that I can maintain my own desperate devotion… — Ayelet Waldman
I had all these desperate feelings. I kept thinking, How will I ever play football again if I can't even get out of this bed?… — Keith Millard
Advertizing, television and film all wield mighty powers to visually seduce us, while much fine art leaves us indifferent, confused or, at worst, repulsed. There… — John Walford
Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our… — Anne Lamott
The tragedy of today is that the situation is desperate but the saints are not. — Vance Havner
Britain is producing some of the worst films in the world. Our film industry is desperate to be part of America, and we just churn… — Catherine McCormack
I believe that human beings are desperate, always, to belong to something larger than themselves. — David Whyte
I've begun to wonder if we wouldn't also regard spelunkers as desperate criminals if AT&T owned all the caves. — John Perry Barlow
The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style. — Frank Auerbach
I've worked with the greatest actors, and they're all gone. This is what's so desperate to me. — Angela Lansbury
For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or… — James Buchan
I think it's still hard for me to turn down work if it's really good because for so many years I was so desperate to… — Matt Damon
Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained. — David Frum

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