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Hope means to keep living amid desperation and to keep humming in the darkness.
Henri Nouwen
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If one is desperate for love, I suggest looking at one's friends and family and see if love is all around. If not, get a new set of friends, a new family.
Jasmine Guy
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There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
Harlan Coben
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If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.
Charles Spurgeon
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The time for desperation is upon us. Let's play.
Zedd
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If you are curious, you will learn. If you are desperate, you will discover.
Mooji
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I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines. Nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.
Harry Shearer
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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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I sort of got into Westerns... It was a sort of desperation move, really. I had several pictures that didn't go very well, and I just realised that I would have to try something else.
James Stewart
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Human beings do not readily admit desperation. When they do, the kingdom of heaven draws near
Philip Yancey
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To worry is to become accessible, unwittingly accessible. And once you worry you cling to anything out of desperation; and once you cling you are bound to get exhausted or to exhaust whoever or whatever you are clinging to.
Carlos Castaneda
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When you sell in desperation, you always sell cheap.
Peter Lynch
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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation. I can't take quiet desperation!
Ray Milland
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Wouldn't this be a great world if insecurity and desperation made us more attractive?
Albert Brooks
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we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
Roberto Bolano
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Success comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration, and inspiration!
Denise Austin
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Desperation is the result of globalization.
Tariq Ali
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I would like to know how it feels for my desperation to get louder.
Bill Withers
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There can be powerful magic in acts of desperation.
Zedd
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I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation.
Ruth Benedict
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Economy, speed, nervousness, and desperation produce the final wasteful, semi-incoherent movies we see.
Pauline Kael
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Better to seek change by inspiration, than out of desperation.
Denis Waitley
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There is so much poverty and desperation in South Sudan, and yet each side is militarily equipped.
Tom Hiddleston
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I think most of the things I published have been published out of desperation, not because they were perfected.
M. H. Abrams
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Creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique.
Leonard Cohen
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The desperation was coming off you in waves. You were all but begging to dance with me. I am doing you a favor.
Amanda Hocking
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Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation.
Charles Bukowski
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Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it not possible that this state of despair is common to everyone?
Leo Tolstoy
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When they face desperation... human beings become animals.
Dan Brown
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In all probability an outburst of desperation in the midst of general submissiveness will always help.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
Veronica Roth
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Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation.
Peter S. Prescott
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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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So how can I hold Tobias’s desperation against him, like I’m better than him, like I’ve never let my own brokenness blind me?
Veronica Roth
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The characters have desperation and it doesn't work out for everyone. Maybe it's not fair because I'm responding to the adaptations that smooth out the edges.
Robert Sikoryak
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Desperation is like a spilled drink; even if it's delicious, no one will get near it. Cultivate an aura of glamorous unapproachability.
Daniel Handler
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If we imagine that God is somehow punishing us, then we will live our lives in desperation and in fear that we are somehow avoiding displeasing God. The difficulty with that is as many ideas about how to displease and how to please God, as there are hairs on your head.
Neale Donald Walsch
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How could you tell if your instincts were just hope in disguise, and if your hope was really desperation parading as possibility?
Laini Taylor
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You write your first novel with the desperation of the damned. You're afraid that you'll never write anything else, ever again.
Patricia Duncker
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He sobbed in desperation at the burden of fear he carried with him every day of his life.
J. K. Rowling
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I don't read books for pleasure, but in desperation.
Jesse Ball
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When a person feels so trapped and no options, they become desperate and in the middle of desperation.
Paula White
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When new hopes fail, old hopes return in the endless cycle of desperation.
Dean Koontz
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Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, became narcotic.
R. Scott Bakker