Be Desperate Quotes

My backpack has seven or eight DVDs in it and four or five of them have been there three months and I'm desperate to get to them.

The way the system now works, credit is extended to those who don't need it and denied to those who are in desperate need of it.

When 'Desperate Housewives' ends, I think my girls will be about the kindergarten age. I will be so happy to be there for them through that huge transition.

Nothing is so dangerous for our security as large groups of desperate people.

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.

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

Many who have voted for the AfD, or who intend to do so, aren't doing so because they are dyed-in-the-wool enemies of democracy. Rather, they are desperate.

My taking a seat on the Council of the Fathers caused a desperate fluttering among my ghosts.

God knows just the place where you'll be placed. He has a barren living room in desperate need of warmth and joy. A corner of the world needs some color. He selected you with that place in mind.

There are moments where the mighty death feels itself desperate too! To see the trees growing in solid rocks is one of these moments!

For a desperate disease a desperate cure.

The spoiled superstar brat wouldn't get far in Oklahoma City. We're very value-conscious. Our city was settled in a land run. Those 10,000 people were desperate for a better life.

We don't have a desperate need to grow. We have a desperate desire to grow.

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

If a huge number of people call for change, the government will have to react. If you want to avoid uprisings, or demonstrations, you need to respond to the peoples desperate need for change.

I got my first job as a card-carrying actor in New York in 1967. Before that, I was a very desperate wannabe.

Prison, blood, death, create enthusiasts and martyrs, and bring forth courage and desperate resolution.

The people that live in my hometown do not walk along the street with smiles on their faces. It is a desperate place, but I got out.

'Desperate Housewives' is an ensemble cast, where I played a tertiary character. I made a lot of great friends, but that show didn't keep me very busy.

Haiti is in desperate poverty.

So with 'There Will Be Blood,' I didn't even really feel like I was adapting a book. I was just desperate to find stuff to write.

When a person feels so trapped and no options, they become desperate and in the middle of desperation.

We celebrities are desperate pigs.

I was so desperate to get a job on TV (with no money), that I dressed as an old lady, went to the TV channel and said to security that I was the producer's grandma and had brought him lunch.

We are all aware that corruption is pervasive. It operates at every level. The poor may carry its greatest burden, but it is an affliction that every Indian is desperate to be rid of.

Earth, is not this what you will: in us to rise up invisible? Is it, O Earth, not your dream once to be wholly invisible? Earth! Invisible! What, if not change, is your desperate mission?

These attacks prove one thing for certain: the liberal establishment is desperate to keep leaders like me out of office, and we are sure to hear more wild, dishonest smears during this campaign.

I've never been desperate to please my father.

Because of President Obama's failed record on nearly every issue from the economy to the deficit to Medicare, the Obama campaign has become increasingly dirty, despicable, and desperate.

Can you imagine a silence so desperate to be heard?

It was the price of survival. The cost of his people's last, desperate gamble: To rid his new home of humanity, he had to become human. And being human, he had to overcome his humanity.

Something is profoundly wrong and we are desperate for justice, for restoration and for somebody somewhere to do something about this.

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

I'm making fun of myself and I think I'm making fun of all men in our desperate, desperate attempt to understand the people we're with and hopefully through humor have them understand us.

In a year of re-election he was desperate to impress.

One of the most intuitive nature writers of our recently past century, Peter Matthiessen, lends a poets voice to the desperate effort to save the tiger.

Could there be anything but widespread misery, where a privileged few controlled a nation's wealth, while millions labored for a pittance, and millions more were desperate for want of employment?

I've always said that people are desperate to find meaning in their lives.

My parents are desperate, they keep saying: 'Please stop doing these angsty roles; make it easier for us.' So, yeah, I'd love to do some comedy.

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

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

At the beginning, you should only hire when you have a desperate need to.

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.

I was far too embarrassed to share the experience of Indian food at school. As a kid, you're desperate to fit in, to assimilate in some way, and everything about me stood out.

I thought when I... made my first big mistakes in public that that was really going to be the end of me. My parents cried. My friends were desperate.

Uh-huh. You know with that sinister tone you should look into working for the IRS. I’m sure they’re desperate for people who can cow others with a single growl. (Susan)

Business practices and how we treat the planet are also in desperate need of re-humanization.

That's the funny thing about knowing you can't have something. It makes you desperate.

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.

If all we seek is an escape, what does that say about the world we live in? That village, that city, that life? We are desperate with our dreams. What - oh, what - does that say?