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Persuasion is not about force; it's about showing a person a door, and making him or her desperate to open it. — David Mitchell

My glitchy adolescent brain was desperate for causalities, for conspiracies that drenched every word, every gesture, with meaning. — Emma Cline

When there's fear people act out in desperate ways. — Robert Hood

The sense of being two men - one bent on desperate measures, the other already in the numb of mourning - felt like the last weeks of his marriage. — James S.A. Corey

I'm desperate to have children. I am chomping at the bit. It's a problem. I can't imagine that I will not be a mother. — Ginnifer Goodwin

I'm not desperate anymore or feeling weird about myself because I'm not working in this business. I'm older and wiser, and there's a lot more to life. — Melanie Griffith

It is the touch of a lover's arms that I so desperately crave, not the memories of a love no longer mine. — D.S. Mixell

Some folks hide, and some folks seek, and seeking, when it's mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous can be a form of hiding. — Tom Robbins

It's not easy to learn a new existence...
...but if you're desperate enough...
...and mean enough...
...it's possible. — Stephen King

I couldn't imagine, and I don't say this with any pride, but I really couldn't imagine writing without a desperate deadline. — Hunter S. Thompson

She felt oddly complimented. Petrov hadn't thought she's just a girl; he'd thought she might be a desperate criminal. — Jonathan L. Howard

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

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

It's still about the women. It's not called Desperate Plumber. People are more interested in cat fights. — James Denton

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

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

It's time to get your head out of the dumps and your legs in the air! — Karen Walker

When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho. — Sarah Jessica Parker

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

The sun fades like the spreading
Of a peacock's tail, as though twilight
Might be read as a warning to those desperate
For easy solutions. — John Ashbery

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

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

To put up a show is to face life's injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination. — Luigi Barzini

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

When you have realised that our position is nearly desperate you will begin to understand what the Christians are talking about. — C.S. Lewis

Soot and sorrow: the Night Market's invocation of desperate seriousness, of doom and disaster. — Nick Harkaway

The fragility of the intellectual is the same as the poet's:
It's all about the I and its desperate sense of the we. — Prageeta Sharma

I like fire and water. You are lucky to have both right here."
From " Desperate Pursuit in Venice" Chapter Two. Kataryna's response to Luca. — Karynne Summars

In those days, I still enjoyed a child's desperate tendency to put sparkles on my whole tribe. — Mary Karr

Therm-bombs! Drop 'em right on us! I been roasted before - it's nothing! — Henry V. O'Neil

The Hallows, the Hallows. A desperate man's dream! — J.K. Rowling

No, truth is something desperate, an' she's got it. Believe me, it's something desperate, an' she's got it. — Tennessee Williams

And I suppose tapes are a desperate attempt to steal something from Death's suitcase. — Mitch Albom

Hope is believing in something that eludes you. It's a desperate feeling in a desperate situation. — Carroll Bryant

But in the depth of Zachary's weary, determined eyes, I saw more than a desperate longing. I saw a future. — Jeri Smith-Ready

Had said. The DOD and Daedalus believe my mutation wore off. Good news, right? But he's desperate - more so than we realized. If we don't — Jennifer L. Armentrout

The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way ... style. — Frank Auerbach

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

In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock. — Twyla Tharp

I know it's painful growing,
I bet the changes was painful too.
But nothing is as painful as being somewhere you don't belong.
Obviously. — Touaxia Vang

I'm used to desperate, buddy. Desperate's my factory default. But thanks anyway. — Carolyn Crane

Love was death's only adversary, the only thing powerful enough to combat its clawing, desperate grasp. — Anna Carey

When one drops everything to come to aide one in desperate need of support, that's love — Missy Robertson

I was desperate for something to read that dealt realistically with teenage life, and I thought others might be, too. — S.E. Hinton

I'm not desperate for a child, Ildiko. I'm desperate for my wife. That's it. No matter what you believe, you aren't lesser. Not to me. You are all. — Grace Draven

It's desperate in life to be beloved of God."
"Depends on the God."
"Does it?"
"Christ, I hope so."
the horse-witch and Caine — Matthew Woodring Stover

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

When you are desperate, it's usually because of fear. — Rene Russo

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

Meanwhile I'll probably see him again. That's how sick I am. — Candace Bushnell

Hermione's eyes lit up with a terrible light of helpfulness and something in the back of Harry's brain screamed in desperate humiliation. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

Prayer, desperate prayer, seems so simple, but it's a step rarely taken by those in family conflict. — Erwin W. Lutzer

I know what that feels like. I know what it's like to care about someone so much they make you desperate. — M. Leighton

The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God's joke on humanity. It is man's last desperate stand at superintendency. — Bette Davis

Often, when I am able to check out a book, I read it a dozen times before returning it, desperate to remain lost in the magic of someone else's story. — Amy Engel

The desperate hope that the patient will be healed ... That's the last treatment. — Choi Woo-shik

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

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

Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work-it's a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love him. — Dean Koontz

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

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

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

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

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

The Universal Consciousness's feeling is unqualified love for all of its creatures,no matter how foolish and desperate they act. — David V. Gaggin

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

There's serenity in the stillness of the water and my body absorbs it through my pours, desperate to find its peace. — Vi Keeland

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

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

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

The tragedy of today is that the situation is desperate but the saints are not. — Vance Havner

Drawing the desperate and the adrift, Los Angeles has long been the dumping ground of dreams both real and cinematic. — Steve Erickson

It's the fate of most Ping-Pong tables in home basements eventually to serve the ends of other, more desperate games. — Jonathan Franzen

You know it's desperate," she said. "Shane is going to the library. — Rachel Caine

True hunger was a weapon stronger
than any of his abstract desires. It's what toppled countries and made men desperate. — Diana Peterfreund

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

It's an awful thing to hear a strong, desperate, fat man scream incontinently in a cave at daybreak. — O. Henry

If that's what you call truth in this wicked world,
no wonder why you're so desperate to defend it. — Toba Beta

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

Pursuit is a rather desperate act in itself. There's something kind of frantic about the notion of pursuit. — Michael Leunig

I groaned. Man and his codes! Even in a lawless inferno, man has to give himself some honor, he's so desperate to separate himself from the beasts. — Steve Toltz

don't want to hurt anybody, but I'm desperate to distract Dad and Becky, to stop the thing that's happening. — Gilly Macmillan

a decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler's throw, — Peter F. Drucker

To play by David's rules you have to be desperate. You have to be so bad that you have no choice. — Malcolm Gladwell

It's no fun to be a struggling young actor. It's a desperate thing, no way to be happy. If you have any alternative, you should take it. — Tommy Lee Jones

At I Am My Brother's Keeper, there were no dues, no drives, no singles nights. Membership grew the old-fashioned way: a desperate need for God. — Mitch Albom

Being bisexual, being bipolar, being biracial - it's been used to define me, but I am desperate to be indefinable. — Halsey

It's amazing, the lies you can tell yourself. Even more amazing, the lies you can believe when you're desperate enough. — Cat Clarke

I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career. — Lisa Bonet

On the table beside me is a book entitled Love's Desperate Desire. Based on the cover, I would have called it My Spectacular Washboard Abs. — Rick Yancey

I mean, it's a good job we've got a last desperate million-to-one chance to rely on, or we'd really be in trouble! — Terry Pratchett

You probably don't want to date a rapist, not right off. Nobody's that desperate. — Chuck Palahniuk

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

When you start reading nonfiction books about piracy, you realize that it's actually just a history of desperate people. — Daniel Handler