Desperate Quotes

There are days when I swear I could fly like an eagle And dark desperate hours that nobody sees My arms stretched triumphant on top of the mountain My head in my hands down on my knees

People get desperate when they're backed into a corner.

People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think.

I love the script and I just thought it was a great role. Like I say, it's like this - the script is like this sad, funny, desperate love song to the lost American man.

With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

Diseases desperate grown By desperate appliances are relieved, Or not at all.

Beckham is unusual. He was desperate to be a footballer. His mind was made up when he was nine or ten. Many kids think that it's beyond them. But you can't succeed without practising at any sport.

My friend, you would not tell with such high zest to children ardent for some desperate glory. The old lie: It is sweet and fitting that you should die for your country.

Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best

The Kingdom of Heaven is not for the well-meaning: it is for the desperate.

I guess the GOP may be more desperate than I thought to call somebody like me.

Like the Spitfire it was immensely strong: a pilot had no need to fear the danger of pulling the wings off, no matter how desperate the situation became.

If you are curious, you will learn. If you are desperate, you will discover.

O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!

I came to see that what constitutes strength is not just a muscle or will. It can also include the most desperate vulnerability, the saddest heartache, the lightest, sweetest laughter.

A thing can be true and still be desperate folly.

A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

It's a comedy thriller, brilliantly written and it's full of twists and turns at every page. When I was reading it I was desperate to get to the end to find out what happens, it really hooks you.

When I am not desperate, I am worthless.

Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

You think you can go into all those auditions not knowing who you are? The work came after I found my sense of self - when I wasn't so manic and desperate.

Superheroes were born in the minds of people desperate to be rescued.

I was desperate really for people not to accuse me of coldness. It was taboo.

In desperate position, you must fight.

Clearly it is not the lovelorn sufferer who seeks solace in chocolate, but rather the chocolate-deprived individual, who, desperate, seeks in mere love a pale approximation of bittersweet euphoria.

Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.

God does not answer our desperate questionings; he simply gives us himself.

Once you base your whole life striving on a desperate lie, and try to implement that lie, you instrument your own undoing.

. . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of the future, it overlooks the plain truth of the moment.

It's heartbreaking that so many hundreds of millions of people around the world are desperate for the right to vote, but here in America people stay home on election day.

When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

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.

When people get hungry and desperate, things get ugly. And I'll tell you where it's really going to get ugly: crime is going to go to levels we've never seen before.

Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.

In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.

It doesn't matter if you have a desperate heart when you have to sing about joy; it doesn't matter if you're scared to death when the lights go on.

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.

The only people who are desperate to go on the show are people we're desperate not to have on the show.

The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.

despite all our desperate, eternal attempts to separate, contain and mend, categories always leak.

One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.

I still believe in the need for guitars and drums and desperate poetry.

While the Japanese droned on in a high-pitched voice, I blinked out the desperate message over and over. TORTURE...TORTURE...

The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.

Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.

New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign.