Desperately Quotes

493 Desperately quotes by 419 unique authors

I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong. — Florence Welch
Money begets money. If you don't have that, you wait around to be hired by somebody at the mercy of others. If you have that… — Muhammad Yunus
I was afraid that if I surrendered my life over to God, God would tell me not to do those things that I desperately wanted… — Tullian Tchividjian
It’s easy to plant a seed and sprinkle it with water, but once the sun scorches the ground, and the earth soaks up all the… — Tiffanie DeBartolo
When I was a younger man, art was a lonely thing. No galleries, no collectors, no critics, no money. Yet, it was a golden age,… — Mark Rothko
Part of me loves and respects men so desperately, and part of me thinks they are so embarrassingly incompetent at life and in love. You… — Anne Lamott
My heart broke all over again. I wanted my life back, my mama, but I knew I would never have that. The child I had… — Dorothy Allison
We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend… — Libba Bray
You think of yourself as an "individual person", with a unique and separate mind. You think you are born and you think you die. All… — Douglas Preston
Evan Handler is a man who’s looked into the abyss and laughed. His book, It’s Only Temporary, made me laugh along with him. He covers… — Lance Armstrong
The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter. — Malcolm Gladwell
So generation after generation of men in love with pain and passivity serve out their time in the Zone, silent, redolent of faded sperm, terrified… — Thomas Pynchon
Touched by her fingers, the two surviving chocolate people copulate desperately, losing themselves in a melting frenzy of lust, spending the last of their brief… — Neil Gaiman
We are, all of us, crippled and twisted. Most of us strive desperately to keep our grotesqueries out of sight and mind. Our suffering is… — Keith Ablow
Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the… — Daniel Handler
In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women in at least this one… — Jeffrey R. Holland
Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape -- I didn't read to learn, I was reading to read. — Christian Bauman
If I were a first rate writer, I wouldn't mind a bit. What does depress me is this: it is so desperately hard and so… — Martha Gellhorn
And I think that's what our world is desperately in need of - lovers, people who are building deep, genuine relationships with fellow strugglers along… — Shane Claiborne
We are, all of us, exploring a world none of us understands...searching for a more immediate, ecstatic, and penetrating mode of living...for the integrity, the… — Hillary Clinton
We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge… — George Santayana
If you have anything to say, anything you feel nobody has ever said before, you have got to feel it so desperately that you will… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
It [is] that courage that Africa most desperately needs. — Barack Obama
To be lonely is to feel unwanted and unloved, and therefor unloveable. Loneliness is a taste of death. No wonder some people who are desperately… — Jean Vanier
Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today? 1)… — David Letterman

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