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There are some people who call themselves great achievers and they are also desperate for the spotlight just to quench their bloated egos.
— Euginia Herlihy
He loves her like a gambler loves a fast racehorse or a desperate man loves whiskey. That kind of love eats a man up.
— Dorothy Allison
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.
— Emily Dickinson
In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
— Jesse Jackson
Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.
— Adrienne Rich
I ask her if she loves me and I always feel bad when I ask her that because it makes me sound so desperate. I ask and ask and ask.
— Benjamin Alire Saenz
Don't mistake a desperate desire to salve your conscience for bravery,
— Catherine Jones Payne
Along with a livable wage, many parents are desperate for quality affordable child care.
— Kirsten Gillibrand
As writing is one of the desperate professions, it has universal appeal, especially for those not engaged in it.
— W. H. Auden
Please tell me you have a way out of this.
— Debbie Moon
To change the leanings of the heart, wear a wasp nest on the head (Not this desperate. Yet.)
— Jandy Nelson
A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.
— Daisaku Ikeda
We were not desperate for love, we were desperate for each other's love." The first implies weakness-
the second only heaven — Michael Xavier
Pride is a ridiculous thing, but when you're in desperate straits and it's all you have left, it becomes your most valuable asset.
— Manel Loureiro
Hope is a desperate man's currency.
— Paul Tremblay
How desperate do you have to be to start doing push-ups to solve your problems?
— Karl Ove Knausgard
The veneer of civilization fell away to reveal desperate animals, humanity at their worst.
— Travis Luedke
There was something about almost dying that made me desperate to feel alive - and Jude's touch was the only thing that made me feel alive right now.
— Becca Fitzpatrick
may have lived on Abnegation bread and vegetables for most of my life, with nothing to spare, but I was never that desperate.
— Veronica Roth
His kiss was desperate, a night before the gallows kiss.
— Kresley Cole
She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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
What's good for the goose is definitely good for the desperate housewife. Even if this never happened again
— James Patterson
I was desperate but I wanted to hear her tell me I was it for her. That the future was us.
— Abbi Glines
Desperate people are the most dangerous.
— Frank Herbert
That's the funny thing about knowing you can't have something. It makes you desperate. -Leah
— Stephenie Meyer
Desperate to know your true self. Bring it out; it permits me to bring my uniqueness. I never afraid your true self. Your shadow scar me
— Assegid Habtewold
If you're going to make a desperate, hopeless act of defiance you should make it a good one.
— Ann Leckie
Drama is the last drug of the desperate whore
— Christian Galacar
I'm like an abused puppy, so desperate for attention that it's almost a surprise when I get belted in the gut.Again. — Talia Vance
Very methodical guy, Marlowe. Nothing must interfere with his coffee technique. Not even a gun in the hand of a desperate character.
— Raymond Chandler
Sometimes I do 'So Desperate' solo in the middle of the set. I really love to sing that song.
— John Darnielle
The boy continued with a desperate note. "You may have saved my life, but it is not my life any longer, it is yours.
— Jettie Necole
Despite all our desperate, eternal attempts to separate, contain and mend, categories always leak.
— Trinh T. Minh-ha
My mind is so impatient, so quick, in some ways so desperate.
— Virginia Woolf
In this desperate way, I started many a comedy.
— Charlie Chaplin
He warps your perspective on the current events in your life until reality appears much worse and more desperate than it truly is.
— Priscilla Shirer
Once you base your whole life striving on a desperate lie, and try to implement that lie, you instrument your own undoing.
— Ernest Becker
I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.
— Jack Henry Abbott
I'm always slightly embarrassed to meet other actresses of my vintage. We have so little in common. They're all so dedicated. I find - so desperate.
— Paulette Goddard
this town is sometimes too much, so desperate and so in denial.
— Gillian Flynn
You might be trying to trick me into sleeping with you." "Is it working? Because I am desperate to sleep with you.
— Jessica Park
There's serenity in the stillness of the water and my body absorbs it through my pours, desperate to find its peace.
— Vi Keeland
When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.
— Samuel Johnson
There are monsters in all walks of life. One doesn't need unlimited power to create victims. One only needs to be desperate.
— John Jackson Miller
There's this huge number of desperate people.
— Lloyd Alexander
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— Kathy Acker
Remember; no matter how desperate the situation seems, time spentthinking clearly is never time wasted. — Max Brooks
Deep inside, I am desperate to do comedy.
— David Suchet
As a Formula One driver, you dream about winning your first race all your life. I am desperate to know what it feels like.
— Sergio Perez
She stays in the same spot, anchored by the profound, desperate loneliness of a bad relationship.
— David Levithan
Desperate people are dangerous people.
— Bob Ritter
I'm sorry if this all seems a little rushed and desperate. It is.
— Chuck Palahniuk
Surely he would call me, wouldn't she? She would know how panicked...how desperate I would be. She's not vindictive like that, is she?
— Paula Hawkins
Drawing the desperate and the adrift, Los Angeles has long been the dumping ground of dreams both real and cinematic.
— Steve Erickson
Haiti is in desperate poverty.
— Pat Robertson
Desperate need to believe in a God that shepherded his own creations.
— Richard Matheson
The only people who are desperate to go on the show are people we're desperate not to have on the show.
— Graham Norton
All of us are in desperate need of the restoration of our wholeness through union with our inmost self.
— Stephan A. Hoeller
The destruction of the world is the last, almost desperate attempt to save myself from being crushed by it
— Erich Fromm
You're desperate, and so am I,' I said. 'Desperate people make stupid decisions all the time.'"P244 — Veronica Roth
To be desperate in your search for something is to get it
— Sunday Adelaja
Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.
— Delmore Schwartz
I was ambitious and desperate to direct my first film, so I capitulated and blew it. Never again. Never fucking again.
— Craig Ferguson
Prayer is never just an emergency flare or desperate anxious gamble. God's attention is not based on our performance but parental love.
— Timothy Keller
I've begun to wonder if we wouldn't also regard spelunkers as desperate criminals if AT&T owned all the caves.
— John Perry Barlow
... desperate times required judicious risk-taking.
— Eoin Colfer
By trying to control everything we become very neurotic, more and more desperate. It's a huge tragic thing.
— Charlotte Rampling
I just got really desperate to pay rent. It was weird, man. I had to wrestle a fake pussy off a crack head once.
— Gold Panda
This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property ordoes itself and leads the will to desperate undertakings.
— William Shakespeare
But women like Tess didn't seem to have that need to share the ordinary facts of their lives, and that made Cecilia desperate to know them.
— Liane Moriarty
Are we not friends?' I ask. My voice is breathy and desperate.'Not properly, but we will be soon, baby. — Jodi Ellen Malpas
That isn't a desperate act. That's a PLAN.
— James A. Owen
