Desperation Quotes
283 quotes by 256 authors
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness…
— Benazir Bhutto
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We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.
— Anthony Burgess
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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
— William S. Burroughs
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People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think.
— George Carlin
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I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate…
— Jim Carrey
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People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation.
— Jim Carrey
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There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
— Harlan Coben
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Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.
— Trevor McDonald
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Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he literally chokes with…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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It's tough, it's not the scenario that we wanted for sure. I thought our desperation was there, we worked hard, but it was one game,…
— Sidney Crosby
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Abortion is an act of desperation. It's an awful solution to a situation that God can work out for good through adoption.
— Bob Carlisle
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I deplore the horrible crime as child murder....no matter what the motive, love of ease, or desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent,the woman…
— Susan B. Anthony
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Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. Its purpose should be the revival of a…
— George C. Marshall
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We have suffered unnumbered ills and crimes in the name of the Law of the Land. Our men, women and children have suffered not only…
— Cesar Chavez
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There's something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see it's a grandiose form of funk.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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Unto him who is able to keep us from falling, and lift us from the dark to the bright mountain of hope, from the midnight…
— Martin Luther
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The art of war is like the art of the courtesan; indeed they might be called sisters, since both are slaves of desperation.
— Pietro Aretino
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Though my natural instinct is to wish for a life free from pain, trouble, and adversity, I am learning to welcome anything that makes me…
— Nancy Leigh DeMoss
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Success comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration, and inspiration!
— Denise Austin
Who Wrote These Desperation Quotes
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