Desperate Quotes

837 Desperate quotes by 688 unique authors

I couldn't imagine, and I don't say this with any pride, but I really couldn't imagine writing without a desperate deadline. — Hunter S. Thompson
We have on the one hand a desperate need; hunger, sickness, and the dread of war. We have, on the other, the conception of something… — C.S. Lewis
I was staying in a hotel in San Francisco for a couple of nights, before flying back to the UK. My hotel was a desperate… — Craig Stone
The best evangelists, the best preachers, the best teachers are desperate people. — Tullian Tchividjian
Obama was quite serious when he said he was going to change the world. And now he has a national crisis, a personal mandate, a… — Charles Krauthammer
It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape… — Joseph Conrad
It's the hardest thing in the world to be in a business where it's all about people accepting you, and you have a desperate need… — Billy Bob Thornton
It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been… — Jodie Foster
I make dark dramas, movies about people living in desperate fear who then overcome that fear and find a heroic side to themselves. — Jodie Foster
For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate. — Thomas Frank
I think that the roots of racism have always been economic, and I think people are desperate and scared. And when you're desperate and scared… — Henry Louis Gates
After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain… — Martha Gellhorn
There are no desperate situations, there are only desperate people. — Heinz Guderian
If one is desperate for love, I suggest looking at one's friends and family and see if love is all around. If not, get a… — Jasmine Guy
With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important… — Nora Ephron
When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can. — Julian Fellowes
Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it. — Federico Fellini
'Desperate Housewives' is an ensemble cast, where I played a tertiary character. I made a lot of great friends, but that show didn't keep me… — Nathan Fillion
One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes. — Gustave Flaubert
There's something very addictive about people pleasing. It's a thought pattern and a habit that feels really, really good until it becomes desperate. — Anne Hathaway

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