Be Desperate Quotes

Black is now in desperate need of a good idea. Or, to put it standard chess notation, +-

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

Place your army in deadly peril, and it will survive; plunge it into desperate straits, and it will come off in safety.

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

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

Some folks hide and some folks seek, and seeking when its mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous, can be a form of hiding.

Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.

All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.

This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property ordoes itself and leads the will to desperate undertakings.

Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning; One pain is less'ned by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; One desperate grief cures with another's languish.

The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was, in the throes of unremitting suffering. I should turn to God

I could have lied. I could have fought. But desperate times call for desperate measures, so I took a chance and called upon a Gallagher Girl's weapon of last resort. I flirted

These are pictures of the people in my family where we look like the most awkward and desperate folk you ever saw, poster children for the human condition.

I have a very strong color theory, for instance, where in 'Powers,' green means powerless, and red means power.The story was all there, but I was desperate to make sure that extra level was the case.

She was desperate and she was choosey at the same time and, in a way, beautiful, but she didn't have quite enough going for her to become what she imagined herself to be.

The desperate hope that the patient will be healed... That's the last treatment.

I stole a significant amount of money from a family member. I knew I was going to get caught, but I was so desperate I didn't care. It was a cry for help.

I am not an expert at praying, as you know. But can you please help me? I am in desperate need of help. I don't know what to do. I need an answer. Please tell me what to do.

The devastation of neoliberalism is so multi-fold, whether it's violence against women or desperate economic inequality or the destruction of the planet.

Abortion is not a sign that women are free, but a sign that they are desperate.

The Lord knew I would someday be charged with the priesthood responsibility for hundreds and even thousands of Heavenly Father's children who were in desperate temporal need.

Nothing more or less than the deepest, most desperate desire of our hearts.

Loneliness is something we [all people] go through. We go through mourning and longing. We make some bad choices sometimes because we're desperate for something, and that's okay. That's part of life.

Social reform is the desperate decision to remove corns from a person suffering from cancer.

Forget the statistics...we have to do more. You cannot look these children in the eye and see how desperate is their situation without wanting to help.

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.

You go from these high hopes when you're writing to just a desperate want of not making a complete fool of yourself by the end of it.

Yes, testosterone-sodden young men too unattractive to get a woman in this world might be desperate enough to go for 72 private virgins in the next.

I am desperate for attention. But everyone else is too. Everyone has fantasies of fame and greatness. Life for most people is a process of shedding those fantasies.

My disease is one of the best things that has happened to me; it has pulled me out of a quietly desperate life toward one full of love and hope.

I feel like what I have become is halfway between my mother and my father, violent and impulsive and desperate and afraid. I feel like I have lost control of what I have become.

What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.

Necessity urges desperate measures.

There is nobody more terrible than the desperate.

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

In this desperate way, I started many a comedy.

Don't take our word for it. Read the Bible itself. Read the statements of preachers. And you will understand that God is the most desperate character, the worst villain in all fiction.

The destruction of the world is the last, almost desperate attempt to save myself from being crushed by it

Once a week, I am a very desperate man.

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

All the Democrats do is bicker. They're not concerned about the war or the fate of the United States of America. They're desperate characters.

The sensuality of desperate lives. Only poets talk like that. But poetry has never had an answer for anything. All it does it bear witness. To despair. And desperate lives.

I've created several musical trends, really. That's not because I'm so far out and fabulous. It's because most bands have no ideas of their own. They're so desperate they'll grab at any old straw.

When things are really desperate and hopeless and you can't do anything about this, and there's a sense that something must be done, that is something usually leads to the U.N.

A LeBron James team is never 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.

...a disgruntled reflection on my own life as a sort of desperate improvisation in which I was constantly trying to make something coherent from conflicting elements to fit rapidly changing settings.

For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live.

Our need is so desperate an idea, a thing, a law can't help us. It took one thing, the gift of gifts, God in the flesh, to rescue us.

Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.