Desperate Quotes

writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers.

There is now a desperate need for a London-wide left caucus of those interested in the GLC and local councils so that we can compare and discuss what is happening in each borough.

The desperate addict is closer to the heart of grace than the devout moralist.

In many situations that seemed desperate, the artillery has been a most vital factor.

As people get more desperate, history suggests that they're not going to rise in a mighty proletarian tidal wave and wash away their oppressors. They're gonna turn on each other.

A nation that turns away from prayer will ultimately find itself in desperate need of it.

For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.

Paradise is to be the ultimate instrument, fulfilling God's desperate intent that we love each other.

I believe that human beings are desperate, always, to belong to something larger than themselves.

The end of a dissolute life is a desperate death.

People get desperate when they're backed into a corner.

Diseases desperate grown By desperate appliances are relieved, Or not at all.

I am desperate and vulnerable. ... I am always terrified.... Beauty can sometimes be so very troublesome.

Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best

I guess the GOP may be more desperate than I thought to call somebody like me.

The Kingdom of Heaven is not for the well-meaning: it is for the desperate.

If you are curious, you will learn. If you are desperate, you will discover.

I've never met anyone who wanted to be a terrorist. They are desperate people.

I came to see that what constitutes strength is not just a muscle or will. It can also include the most desperate vulnerability, the saddest heartache, the lightest, sweetest laughter.

A thing can be true and still be desperate folly.

When I am not desperate, I am worthless.

In desperate position, you must fight.

I was desperate really for people not to accuse me of coldness. It was taboo.

Once you base your whole life striving on a desperate lie, and try to implement that lie, you instrument your own undoing.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.

In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.

The only people who are desperate to go on the show are people we're desperate not to have on the show.

One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.

despite all our desperate, eternal attempts to separate, contain and mend, categories always leak.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.

God doesn't answer prayer, He answers desperate prayer!

In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.

Desperate? That can be a justification for all kinds of behavior.

I am desperate for change - now - not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now.

I don't have specific people. There are so many people that I admire and there's directors that I'm desperate to work with that haven't even made a movie yet, probably.

So the challenge for us is to live in such a way that we are radically dependent on and desperate for the power that only God can provide.

Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.

We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff.

Nations, like individuals, cannot become desperate gamblers with impunity. Punishment is sure to overtake them sooner or later.

I've worked with the greatest actors, and they're all gone. This is what's so desperate to me.

There's always somebody older, richer, more desperate than you.

Are we not all desperate one way or another?

I'm desperate to work again. I've often had those periods, but two years was the longest.

I'm desperate to start a career in music.

By trying to control everything we become very neurotic, more and more desperate. It's a huge tragic thing.

I'm not one of those people who are desperate to get married.

Desperate times call for desperate analogies.