Desperately Quotes

493 Desperately quotes by 419 unique authors

My number one goal was not getting 'A's' - and I proved it. I was a 'C' student. You have to be ready to learn.… — Brian Lamb
We believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million houses out of the public housing… — John Prescott
For me, two of my favourite science fiction films are Blade Runner, which is fantastic, and Terry Gilliam's Twelve Monkeys. Both of those were smart… — Duncan Jones
After a war life catches desperately at passing hints of normalcy like vines entwining a hollow twig. — Chinua Achebe
We human beings have not secured happiness; on the contrary, science gives us catastrophes. We are like travelers losing their way in a desert. They… — Liang Qichao
The Buddha taught that suffering is the extra pain in the mind that happens when we feel an anguished imperative to have things be different… — Sylvia Boorstein
Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death threat living over your head. Activism is very… — Larry Kramer
Money itself isn't lost or made, it's simply transferred from one perception to another. This painting here. I bought it 10 years ago for 60… — Oliver Stone
So, I think China desperately needs to legitimize some form of opposition. — William C. Kirby
I'm interested in painting the most beautifully compelling pictures and images and metaphors and stories and explanations possible that will put Jesus in language for… — Rob Bell
I guess I so desperately want to see us put this planet right. It's so horrifying to me that a fifth of us are starving… — Ann Druyan
There are no ideas in the Republican Party right now in the Congress. They're the party of no. They desperately need some intellectual leadership. And… — Howard Dean
I think the whole idea of me was that I wasn't going to be but that I wanted to be, desperately. — Chris Elliott
I'm there to make a kind of theatrical music that is desperately missing in my life. And if other people don't like it, I'm very… — Richard Foreman
Those of us with ravaged faces, lacking in the social graces, desperately remained at home, inventing lovers on the phone. — Janis Ian
Most of us consist of two separated parts, trying desperately to bring themselves together into an integrated soma, where the distinctions between mind and body,… — Carl Rogers
Usually God favours the people who try to do good. So, when you find that the crowd is desperately trying to sell, help them and… — John Templeton
I suppose we all loved those kind of sci-fi movies where terrible things came out of swamps and came to Mars. And there's usually some… — Neil Innes
I grew up being very shy, very much a bookworm, and I remember desperately wondering how to be accepted by the popular kids. — Lisa Kleypas
I remember feeling ashamed, for some reason. I was ashamed of my parents. I couldn't face some of my friends at school anymore, because I… — Kurt Cobain
Several million people inside and outside Afghanistan are destitute and desperately in need of help. — Lakhdar Brahimi
Blood trickled down his chin as he was hauled up onto his knees, the golden rope securing his arms behind him and his ankles together.… — Garth Nix
Men, permitted to put words (and other things) in women's mouths, create scenes in which women desperately want to be bound, battered, tortured, humiliated, and… — Catharine MacKinnon
I am 5'6' and desperately wish I was taller. — Buzz Bissinger
What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides. — Felix Rohatyn

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