Desperate Quotes
All poetry and music, and art of every true sort, bears witness to man's continual falling in love with beauty and his desperate attempt to induce beauty to live with him and enrich his common life.
For the ANC to cry 'sabotage' the night before crucial local government elections shows just how desperate they are to disguise their incompetence and mismanagement.
So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse Met ever, and to shameful silence brought, Yet gives not o'er though desperate of success.
The Animals of the planet are in desperate peril and they are fully aware of this. No less than human beings are doing in all parts of the world, they are seeking sanctuary.
I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power.
I thank God that the gospel is to be preached to every creature. There is no man so far gone, but the grace of God can reach him; no man so desperate or black, but He can forgive him.
What humans do when they're desperate is just an expression of fear. What they do when they feel safe is a better indication of whether or not you can trust them.
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.
Don't compliment me in the middle of an argument. It won't make me stammer or blush, and it just makes you look desperate.
I don't see many artists who are not trying to bring their work to the public - -to the contrary I see artists nearly desperate to get attention for their art and, failing that, often for themselves.
Euthanasia and assisted suicide are never acceptable acts of mercy. They always gravely exploit the suffering and desperate, extinguishing life in the name of the 'quality of life' itself.
I only really cast people who are desperate to be in it - who were dying to be in it, whose talent I believed in and were dead ready to do the work that was necessary.
The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility
Solutions-oriented campaigning with a little passion and a little humor; I think that will go a long way. I think people are desperate for it.
But I'd be lying if I didn't say that every time you go to make a film, you're desperate to either do it better than you did it last time or to not repeat yourself.
Remember; no matter how desperate the situation seems, time spent thinking clearly is never time wasted.
I don't have specific people. There are so many people that I admire and there's directors that I'm desperate to work with that haven't even made a movie yet, probably.
The other day, I was so desperate for a beer, I snuck into the football stadium and ate the dirt under the bleachers.
You have not wasted your time; you have helped to save the world. We are not buffoons, but very desperate men at war with a vast conspiracy.
Middle-class people are becoming desperate. It can cause a moral man to break bad.
Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings.
Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.
Paul Lambert has assembled a great bunch of lads and training has been going very well. I am just desperate to get into the team and do my best for the club.
His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.
So the challenge for us is to live in such a way that we are radically dependent on and desperate for the power that only God can provide.
I preferred to hang out with the dead, dying, or desperate books - used we call them, in a way that we'd never call a person, unless we meant it cruelly
When you start reading nonfiction books about piracy, you realize that it's actually just a history of desperate people.
Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.
Nations, like individuals, cannot become desperate gamblers with impunity. Punishment is sure to overtake them sooner or later.
To annihilate the world by annihilation of oneself is the deluded height of desperate egoism.
I learnt not to be desperate in bad times, and I am learning not to be bullish when times are good.
Self-mutilation is a frightening barrier that keeps us from seeing a person who is lost, in pain, and in desperate need of help.
I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike.
When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture.
I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them.
Those two songs condense the two albums. They also show what the audiences wanted. I was desperate to keep the band together and find something that the public would like.
