Desperately Quotes
493 Desperately quotes by 419 unique authors
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Reynie's fce fell. 'It's not funny, Kate.' For a moment - a fleeting moment - Kate looked desperately sad. 'Well, of course it's not funny,…
— Trenton Lee Stewart
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when you want something so desperately, you shake with the need for it. you tell yourself that you don't need more than one sip, because…
— Jodi Picoult
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Technically, on the spectrum of very bad things, they did nothing truly wicked. But of course, that spectrum has no measure for the greatest of…
— Galt Niederhoffer
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I need to feel strongly, to love and admire, just as desperately as I need to breathe.
— Jean-Dominique Bauby
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In those days it was either live with music or die with noise, and we chose rather desperately to live.
— Ralph Ellison
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We have a choice. We can seek for the bad in others. Or we can make peace and work to extend to others the understanding,…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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Oh, how desperately bored, in spite of their grim determination to have a Good Time, the majority of pleasure-seekers really are!
— Aldous Huxley
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Sometimes if you want something badly enough, you can make it happen. If you miss someone so desperately that it wrecks your insides, you say…
— Jenny Downham
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Why can’t I drink the potion instead?” asked Harry desperately. “Because I am much older, much cleverer, and much less valuable,” said Dumbledore.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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But-but…” Timmie’s eyes couldn’t get any wider. “Why did you tell her I’m your boyfriend? Why doesn’t she know about your real one?” That was…
— Jeaniene Frost
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I try desperately to conquer the transitory nature of my existence, to trap moments before they evenesce, to untangle the confusion of my past. Every…
— Isabel Allende
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Gwen Cassidy needed a man. Desperately. Failing that, she'd settle for a cigarette.
— Karen Marie Moning
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I would never normally approach a woman in this way, but I couldn't help but notice that you have the eyes of a lady I…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my…
— Evelyn Waugh
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I could say his body was perfect and every part of it beautiful, because it was. Not because he had no flaws, but because I…
— Megan Hart
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All of us know, whether or not we are able to admit it, that mirrors can only lie, that death by drowning is all that…
— James A. Baldwin
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The movie is more real in so many ways than the life I am leading. No, that’s not true. I just desperately wish this was…
— Walter Dean Myers
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A person desperately searching for love," Merlin said, "reminds me of a fish desperately searching for water.
— Deepak Chopra
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We desperately need to explore how much of our understanding of the gospel is American and how much is biblical.
— David Platt
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Of course, I had my heart broken as a teen. I was desperately in love with myself. Then I found out that I was completely…
— Matthew Tobin Anderson
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One swing set, well worn but structurally sound, seeks new home. Make memories with your kid or kids so that someday he or she or…
— John Green
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Headline?" he asked. "'Swing Set Needs Home,'" I said. "'Desperately Lonely Swing Set Needs Loving Home,'" he said. "'Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the…
— John Green
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...it honestly didn't matter how we humans got to be the way we are, whether evolution or special creation was responsible. What mattered and mattered…
— Jane Goodall
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Something aches at the very core of me, something ancient and deep and stronger than words: the filament that joins each of us to the…
— Lauren Oliver
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He felt around desperately for a weapon. What did he have? Diapers? Cookies? Oh, why hadn't they given him a sword? He was the stupid…
— Suzanne Collins
Who Wrote These Desperately Quotes
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