Desperately Quotes
493 Desperately quotes by 419 unique authors
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You don’t have to look like an old fuddy-duddy, but I believe it was Chanel who said, ‘Nothing makes a woman look so old as…
— Iris Apfel
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I think when I came into marriage -- especially when you've had divorced parents like myself... You'd want to try even harder to make it…
— Princess Diana
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What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set for you. The…
— Sydney J. Harris
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I'm sorry, but anyone who thinks the use of an angelic (or seemingly angelic character), whose likes have been written about for, oh, about 4,000…
— J. Michael Straczynski
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The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of all kinds.
— Dalai Lama
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To turn the tide of materialism in the Christian community, we desperately need bold models of kingdom-centered living. Despite our need to do it in…
— Randy Alcorn
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Smooth and ordered on the outside; roiling and chaotic and desperately secretive underneath, but not noticeably so, never noticeably so.
— Caroline Knapp
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One such troubling provision is a tax increase to pay for the $635 billion included in the budget for health care 'reserve funds.' Health care…
— Paul Broun
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The desperately poor are not going to come to us to hear the Good News. We have to go to them.
— Jackie Pullinger
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Be dogmatically true, obstinately holy, immovably honest, desperately kind, fixedly upright.
— Charles Spurgeon
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You can’t believe something just because someone else desperately wants you to.
— Bart D. Ehrman
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We spend a good part of our lives trying desperately to convince ourselves as well as everybody else that we know more than we really…
— Charles Osgood
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We don't think of ourselves as being perfectionists, really. To us it's more about desperately trying to have it sound more or less OK.
— Donald Fagen
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The man who does not betake himself at once and desperately to sawing is called a loafer, though he may be knocking at the doors…
— Henry David Thoreau
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When I was about 5 I think, I desperately wanted to be a pirate and have the hat and everything.
— Keira Knightley
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People were desperately trying to fill their seats for the summer. And so prices are really low right now. And so they are kept from…
— David Neeleman
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We desperately need to understand something of the magnitude of sin, of evil, and of gross wickedness in this world if we are to appreciate…
— Dave Hunt
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You just can't beat slip covers for giving that friendly air hospitals need so desperately.
— Dorothy Draper
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We desperately need each other in the daily fight to follow Christ in a world that's full of sin.
— David Platt
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Let your life yield a sweet, winsome melody that this old world needs so desperately. Yes you can if you will.
— Charles R. Swindoll
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It is desperately important to remember when enough is enough, when you've finished the scene.
— John Mortimer
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All women are troublemakers who take the money their husbands need desperately for a new and better speaker, and selfishly squander it on things like…
— Stan Freberg
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It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become.
— Ralph Steadman
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Prayer is the most important activity a born-again Christian can perform. It should head your list of priorities, for certainly the world around us desperately…
— Chuck Smith
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Never completely encircle your enemy. Leave him some escape, for he will fight even more desperately if trapped.
— Alex Haley
Who Wrote These Desperately Quotes
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