Desperate famous quotes

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

#Kids #Mind #Desperate

There is nobody more terrible than the desperate.
-- Alexander Suvorov

#Desperate #Terrible

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

#Love #Affair #Desperate

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

#Gone #Actors #Desperate

Single gals aren't all a bunch of Bridget Joneses, desperate for love.
-- Anita Hamilton

#Single #Love Is #Desperate

There's something very addictive about people pleasing. It's a thought pattern and a habit that feels really, really good until it becomes desperate.
-- Anne Hathaway

#People #Patterns #Desperate

You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you.
-- Arthur Golden

#Might #Like You #Desperate

A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail.
-- Ben Marcus

#Failing #Desperate #Aids

The end of a dissolute life is most commonly a desperate death.
-- Bion of Smyrna

#Life Is #Desperate #Ends

Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best
-- Bob Geldof

#Desperate #Mankind

Some people are desperate because they don't know how to ask for His grace.
-- Bree Despain

#People #Grace #Desperate

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

#Laughter #Heartache #Desperate

Desperate affairs require desperate remedies.
-- Carl von Clausewitz

#War #Affair #Desperate

I was just the youngest in the family, and most in desperate need of attention.
-- Caroline Rhea

#Needs #Attention #Desperate

writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers.
-- Charles Bukowski

#Writing #People #Desperate

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

#Years #Two #Desperate

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

#Trying #Desperate #Tragic

I got to that desperate place where nobody could help me but God.
-- Cheryl James

#Helping #Desperate #Help Me

Desperate men do desperate things when you take hope away. And that's where the Palestinians are today.
-- Chuck Hagel

#Men #Today #Desperate

Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained.
-- David Frum

#Country #Desperate #Economic

Deep inside, I am desperate to do comedy.
-- David Suchet

#Comedy #Desperate

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

#Believe #I Believe #Desperate

I'm not desperate but I know that some day I'll be the coach again of some team.
-- Diego Maradona

#Team #Desperate #Coaches

The books weren't exactly Linnet's general reading fare, but a desperate woman will read anything.
-- Eloisa James

#Book #Reading #Desperate

I'd be smiling if I wasn't so desperate. I'd be patient if I had the time.
-- Emeli Sande

#Patient #Be Patient #Desperate

I'm less desperate now to express what's inside me, that's true - I act these days because it keeps me awake and interested, an eternal student.
-- Emmanuelle Beart

#Students #Desperate #These Days

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

#Lying #Trying #Desperate

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

#Sometimes #Vulnerable #Desperate

Right after 'Desperate' sold to China, we were the most watched show around the world at the time. That's really something great to be a part of.
-- Felicity Huffman

#World #Desperate #China

Abortion is not a sign that women are free, but a sign that they are desperate.
-- Frederica Mathewes-Green

#Abortion #Desperate

From Toscanini I learnt the essential and desperate seriousness of making music.
-- Georg Solti

#Essentials #Desperate #Seriousness

Printing money is the last resort of desperate governments when all other policies have failed.
-- George Osborne

#Government #Lasts #Desperate

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

#People #Goes On #Desperate

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

#Doubt #Desperate

A monk's extraordinary patience can be a hindrance to desperate decision-making.
-- Harsha Bhogle

#Decision #Desperate #Monk

There are no desperate situations, there are only desperate people.
-- Heinz Guderian

#People #Historical #Desperate

Desperate affairs require desperate measures.
-- Horatio Nelson

#Affair #Desperate

When I am not desperate, I am worthless.
-- Ivo Andric

#Desperate #Worthless

That isn't a desperate act. That's a PLAN.
-- James A. Owen

#Desperate #Plans

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

#Heaven #Kingdoms #Desperate

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

#Love #Family #Desperate

I might be needy, competitive and desperate but it's far better than being wet.
-- Jenny Eclair

#Might #Desperate #Needy

My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.
-- Jesse Jackson

#Politics #Desperate #Disrespected

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

#Kind #Desperate #Behavior

Desperate times call for desperate analogies.
-- John Diamond

#Analogies #Desperate #Desperate Times

I learnt not to be desperate in bad times, and I am learning not to be bullish when times are good.
-- John Elkann

#Desperate #Bad Times

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

#People #Terrorism #Desperate

Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen.
-- John Podhoretz

#People #May #Desperate

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

#Prayer #Needs #Desperate

Human beings have hope. Not matter how desperate things are, they convince themselves that they can change things for the better." - John Gregory (Clash of the Demons)
-- Joseph Delaney

#Matter #Demon #Desperate

Those that dare lose a day, ate dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, are desperate.
-- Joseph Hall

#Laziness #Desperate #Dare

Adolescence involves our nutty-desperate-ecstatic-rash psychological efforts to come to terms with new bodies and outrageous urges.
-- Judith Viorst

#Effort #Body #Desperate

When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can.
-- Julian Fellowes

#Siege #Desperate

I swim with all my strength. No superhuman surge, or pony heroics; it's just me at my most desperate.
-- Karen Russell

#Swim #Ponies #Desperate

Failure may be cruel, but success is crueller still. The gods are usurers, you know; they lend to mortals, but they exact a desperate interest.
-- Katherine Cecil Thurston

#May #Desperate #Success And Failure

Legends were not only for the desperate. Legends were for the brave. (Soren)
-- Kathryn Lasky

#Brave #Legends #Desperate

I'm desperate to start a career in music.
-- Katie Price

#Careers #Desperate

But desperate people find courage.
-- Ken Follett

#People #Desperate

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

#Needs #London #Desperate

I never let myself get desperate.
-- Kim Alexis

#Desperate

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

#Desperate

And now I understand that truth casts a spell of its own, one I'm not sure of how to hold on to, though I'm desperate to try.
-- Libba Bray

#Trying #Desperate #Not Sure

Maybe it'll stop you trying to be so desperate about making more money than you can ever use? You can't take it with you, Mr. Kirby. So what good is it? As near as I can see, the only thing you can take with you is the love of your friends.
-- Lionel Barrymore

#Trying #Use #Desperate

You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.
-- Lisa See

#May #Desperate

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

#Desperate #Cases #Difficult

There's this huge number of desperate people.
-- Lloyd Alexander

#Numbers #People #Desperate

Even illegals are not coming into the United States now because they can't find jobs. It's how desperate the job situation is in the United States.
-- Mario Diaz-Balart

#Jobs #United States #Desperate

This is the way the world really ends: not with whimper but a desperate chuckle.
-- Martin Firrell

#Way #World #Desperate

Necessity urges desperate measures.
-- Miguel de Cervantes

#Desperate

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

#Desperation #Desperate #Curious

Haiti is in desperate poverty.
-- Pat Robertson

#Poverty #Haiti #Desperate

If we are desperate, though , if we have nothing to lose, or if we are full of enthusiasm for life, then the unknown reveals itself, and our universe changes direction.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Enthusiasm #Desperate #Nothing To Lose

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

#May #Desperate #Gop

The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug.
-- Pico Iyer

#Way #Desperate

Desperate is not a sexual preference.
-- R. K. Milholland

#Sex #Desperate #Preference

I've never been desperate to please my father.
-- Rebecca Hall

#Father #Desperate #Please

A thing can be true and still be desperate folly.
-- Richard Adams

#Desperate #Being True #Folly

Can you imagine a silence so desperate to be heard?
-- Richard Jackson

#Silence #Imagine #Desperate

I took desperate measures to lose weight and did terrible things to myself. I went from diet pills to thirty laxatives a day to throwing up.
-- Richard Simmons

#Weight #Pills #Desperate

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

#Paradise #Desperate #Instruments

He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday.
-- S. E. Hinton

#Desperate #Someday #Violent

Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel,
-- Samantha Shannon

#Writing #Doors #Desperate

Clearly it is not the lovelorn sufferer who seeks solace in chocolate, but rather the chocolate-deprived individual, who, desperate, seeks in mere love a pale approximation of bittersweet euphoria.
-- Sandra Boynton

#Chocolate #Bittersweet #Desperate

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

#Drama #People #Desperate

Anyone who is desperate or alone will agree there is comfort in routine.
-- Simon Van Booy

#Comfort #Routine #Desperate

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

#Writing #Stuff #Desperate

That’s the funny thing about knowing you can’t have something. It makes you desperate. -Leah
-- Stephenie Meyer

#Knowing #Funny Things #Desperate

Desperate times require desperate measures. What Lincoln and the Lobbyist for the Amendment and the Manager of the Amendment and himself, what they did to get this passed was not illegal. It was murky, but what they did was noble and grand. How they went about it was somewhat murky, but nothing they did was really illegal.
-- Steven Spielberg

#Noble #Lobbyists #Desperate

In desperate position, you must fight.
-- Sun Tzu

#Fighting #Desperate #Position

I know. I was hoping," I say. "Exactly. Because you're desperate," says Haymitch. I don't argue because, of course, he's right.
-- Suzanne Collins

#Arguing #Desperate #Haymitch

Desperate, yet no longer alone after that day, because we'd found each other.
-- Suzanne Collins

#Desperate #Found

That if desperate times call for desperate measures, then I'm free to act as desperately as I wish.
-- Suzanne Collins

#Wish #Desperate #Desperate Times

Are we not all desperate one way or another?
-- Taylor Caldwell

#Way #Desperate

The Brothers Grimm came along and I was so desperate for work ... Actually I've got to say that I like the movie, I won't apologize for it.
-- Terry Gilliam

#Brother #Apologizing #Desperate

Sometimes that's all life is... One desperate act after another.
-- Terry Goodkind

#Sometimes #Life Is #Desperate

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

#People #Desperate #Taboo

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

#Today #Students #Desperate

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate.
-- Thomas Jefferson

#Character #America #Desperate

Jumping through any hoop or taking advantage of any desperate situation that comes up just to sell a product is harmful. It is.
-- Trent Reznor

#Jumping #Desperate #Come Up

despite all our desperate, eternal attempts to separate, contain and mend, categories always leak.
-- Trinh T. Minh-ha

#Desperate #Leaks #Categories