Be Desperate Quotes

My brother died of cancer two years ago (1998), renal cell carcinoma. He was my only real brother and I didn't know what to do. I'd never been so desperate in my life.

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.

Life is a process by which a few desperate longings morph into a thousand meaningless wants.

As a Formula One driver, you dream about winning your first race all your life. I am desperate to know what it feels like.

Prayer is never just an emergency flare or desperate anxious gamble. God's attention is not based on our performance but parental love.

No war can end war except a total war which leaves no human creature on earth. Each war creates the causes of war: hate, desire for revenge and have-nots, desperate with need.

The door', replied Maimie, 'will always, always be open, and mother will always be waiting at it for me.

She shrieks above the din. "If you wish a battle, I shall give it. I am the last of my kind. I shall not lie down without a fight.

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

Hold onto me baby. I'm going to take care of you." The raspy need in his voice only made me more desperate.

Desperate ills need desperate remedies.

Growing up, my family was an enemy of the state. I have experienced more disappointment than joy, much more sad stories or desperate conditions.

Having to squeeze the last drop of utility out of the land has the same desperate finality as having to chop up the furniture to keep warm.

I felt stuck in the bottom of a wishing well. I was desperate to shout what I wanted, but I didn’t know what that was. I knew only what it wasn’t. The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan

If you're going to make a desperate, hopeless act of defiance you should make it a good one.

Desperate people lose the thing that makes them human beings. They lose their heart. Anger and hate fill them so that they act like animals.

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

We have a desperate need for producers in the [commercial Broadway] theatre, and it is very hard for them to get money and find investors for new plays.

I’ve sometimes thought that it’s only by recalling that desperate devotion my kids once felt for me that I can maintain my own desperate devotion in the face of their adolescent sneering.

No one really has the power, and everybody's trying to get through the day, and everybody's nervous and desperate.

The unemployment rate is now at 9.2%, which is scary, because experts say 9.5 is the point at which people are desperate enough to consider Michele Bachmann.

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

I try to have all my characters have a sense of humor. To me the most interesting thing is a desperate character. I think desperation is funny.

We didn't have MTV, and I was desperate for something. You know, you're young, you want something off the beaten path. And Twin Peaks was like, surrealism on network TV.

Some people probably think of the Resurrection as a desperate last moment expedient to save the Hero from a situation which had got out of the Author's control.

Desperate affairs require desperate remedies.

She had never imagined that the kiss would be so brief and desperate and wild. Or that it would taste of holy water. Holy water and blood.

Britain is producing some of the worst films in the world. Our film industry is desperate to be part of America, and we just churn out flaccid imitations of bad films over there.

Actually, I feel music becoming more and more important. It's a big source of inspiration. With what's going on in the world, we feel almost desperate. Music also brings you peace.

This is how the great post-partisan, post-racial, New Politics presidency ends - not with a bang, not with a whimper, but with a desperate election-eve plea for ethnic retribution.

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

We just make stuff that we think is funny and fun, and I think that's the most you can do. I think if you're chasing virality, it just feels desperate.

I never know what all of these guys are thinking, but Marco Rubio sounded desperate, like, We've got a leak in the dike, we got to stop this thing.

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

I'm sorry if this all seems a little rushed and desperate. It is.

We don't need to respond with desperate violence.

I am absolutely desperate to win a Super Bowl.

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

She stays in the same spot, anchored by the profound, desperate loneliness of a bad relationship.

The future is itself a story, and predictions are stories we tell to amaze ourselves, to give hope to the desperate, to jolt the complacent.

I'm not desperate [but] I know that some day I'll be the coach again of some team.

I think mortality makes you live a fuller existence. When I was a kid I was scared of death, and maybe that's what made me desperate to get the most out of life.

The term itself--my life--is a desperate overstatement.

When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful.

You know how many reasons we have to be desperate and despairing, the world is not learning anything. We have seen that.

Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it.

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

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

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.

The fanatic is not really a stickler to principle. He embraces a cause not primarily because of its justness or holiness but because of his desperate need for something to hold onto.