Desperate Quotes

837 Desperate quotes by 688 unique authors

The privileged individuals and families who comprise the global elite will happily bankrupt their own countrymen, decimate their own community and evict their neighbors from… — James Morcan
If all we seek is an escape, what does that say about the world we live in. We are desperate with our dreams. What -… — Steven Erikson
At the bottom of philosophy something very true and very desperate whispers: Everyone is hungry all the time. Everyone is starving. Everyone wants so much,… — Catherynne M. Valente
For the ANC to cry 'sabotage' the night before crucial local government elections shows just how desperate they are to disguise their incompetence and mismanagement. — Helen Zille
The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it. — Jodi Picoult
You go from these high hopes when you're writing to just a desperate want of not making a complete fool of yourself by the end… — Rian Johnson
In 1977, at age ten, I was cast on the TV sitcom 'Good Times.' My character was Penny, an abused child in desperate need of… — Janet Jackson
The tragedy is that many of us are living desperate Christian life. Sunday comes and we get some strength, and then we lose some on… — Martyn
When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face. — Robert Burns
Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have everything to gain and nothing much to lose. It's middle-age which… — John Mortimer
Beauty is all about us, but how many are blind! They look at the wonder of this earth and seem to see nothing. People move… — Pablo Casals
The newsprint thesp celebrity interview as a middle-brow art form suffers from desperate overproduction. There'll be at least 10 in the broadsheets today and every… — Peter York
Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage. — William Blake
Not only was Dan Cooper likely an alias, but many people suspected at the time were people living under assumed names. The '50s and '60s… — Geoffrey Gray
By trying to control everything we become very neurotic, more and more desperate. It's a huge tragic thing. — Charlotte Rampling
Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning; One pain is less'ned by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; One desperate… — William Shakespeare
The fanatic is not really a stickler to principle. He embraces a cause not primarily because of its justness or holiness but because of his… — Eric Hoffer
When our individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for, we are in desperate need for something apart from us to live for.… — Eric Hoffer
What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once. — Virginia Woolf
When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly. — Samuel Johnson

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