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writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers.
Charles Bukowski
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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.
Ken Livingstone
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The desperate addict is closer to the heart of grace than the devout moralist.
Tullian Tchividjian
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In many situations that seemed desperate, the artillery has been a most vital factor.
Douglas MacArthur
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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.
Alan Moore
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A nation that turns away from prayer will ultimately find itself in desperate need of it.
Jonathan Cahn
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For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.
Thomas Frank
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I believe that human beings are desperate, always, to belong to something larger than themselves.
David Whyte
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Paradise is to be the ultimate instrument, fulfilling God's desperate intent that we love each other.
Ruby Dee
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The end of a dissolute life is a desperate death.
Wilfred Bion
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People get desperate when they're backed into a corner.
Seohyun
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Diseases desperate grown By desperate appliances are relieved, Or not at all.
William Shakespeare
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Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best
Bob Geldof
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I am desperate and vulnerable. ... I am always terrified.... Beauty can sometimes be so very troublesome.
Faye Dunaway
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I guess the GOP may be more desperate than I thought to call somebody like me.
Phil Robertson
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not for the well-meaning: it is for the desperate.
James Denney
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If you are curious, you will learn. If you are desperate, you will discover.
Mooji
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I've never met anyone who wanted to be a terrorist. They are desperate people.
John Perkins
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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.
Brenda Shaughnessy
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A thing can be true and still be desperate folly.
Richard Adams
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When I am not desperate, I am worthless.
Ivo Andric
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Once you base your whole life striving on a desperate lie, and try to implement that lie, you instrument your own undoing.
Ernest Becker
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In desperate position, you must fight.
Sun Tzu
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I was desperate really for people not to accuse me of coldness. It was taboo.
Thomas Dolby
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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.
Andre Breton
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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
Robert Burns
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In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid.
Al Purdy
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despite all our desperate, eternal attempts to separate, contain and mend, categories always leak.
Trinh T. Minh-ha
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The only people who are desperate to go on the show are people we're desperate not to have on the show.
Graham Norton
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One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.
Gustave Flaubert
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.
Jodi Picoult
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In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
Livy
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I am desperate for change - now - not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now.
Michelle Obama
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Desperate? That can be a justification for all kinds of behavior.
Jessica Walter
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Nations, like individuals, cannot become desperate gamblers with impunity. Punishment is sure to overtake them sooner or later.
Charles Mackay
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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.
Jamie Dornan
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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.
David Platt
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We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff.
Stephen Malkmus
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Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.
William Weld
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To annihilate the world by annihilation of oneself is the deluded height of desperate egoism.
Sylvia Plath
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I learnt not to be desperate in bad times, and I am learning not to be bullish when times are good.
John Elkann
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When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.
Samuel Johnson
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I've worked with the greatest actors, and they're all gone. This is what's so desperate to me.
Angela Lansbury
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There's always somebody older, richer, more desperate than you.
Kirstie Alley