Desperate Quotes

• Desperate men are easy to inspire but difficult to reassure.

  

  Barry S. Strauss
  • Inspire
  • Desperate
  • Reassure

• Staring us in the face is the desperate plight of the poor. We don't need statistics to tell us that. They are flesh and blood people like ourselves, often out of work, forced out of rented premises, without money and without food.

  

  Eva Burrows
  • Money
  • Blood
  • Statistics

• Obviously when the threes aren't going it's time to stop shooting them. We kept going to it and got desperate at the end trying to hit home runs. We can't do that.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Home

• New York is just New York. It's a hard city, it's a hard city to live in. It's a desperate city. It's filled with scam artists and people who are always looking for a way in and a way out and the majority of people have to really negotiate their way through that jungle to get to the other side; the other side being a place of tranquility and peace and home and safety.

  

  Scott Cohen
  • People
  • Home
  • Artist

• To such men the desperate and horrible thought has come that perhaps the whole of human life is but a bad joke, a violent and ill-fated abortion of the primal mother, a savage and dismal catastophe of nature.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Mother
  • Human Life
  • Catastrophe

• War is very uncertain in its results, and often when affairs look most desperate they suddenly assume a more hopeful state.

  

  George Meade
  • War
  • Results
  • State

• The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire! To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire...driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there's no sign of love in sight!

  

  Carson McCullers
  • Heart
  • Desire
  • Lonely

• And so it was I entered the broken world To trace the visionary company of love, its voice An instant in the wind. But not for long to hold each desperate choice.

  

  Hart Crane
  • World
  • Company
  • Choice

• I became so desperate that I considered throwing Eric [Beck] off the ledge. I thought I could get down and then lie about what had happened. To my addled brain, this was plausible. Then I came to my senses and woke Eric up and told him that either he had to retreat or I'd throw him off. We went down and I never climbed again for a quarter of a century.

  

  Dave Cook
  • Brain
  • Lying
  • Century

• I'm not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself. I can't join your gang: you'd think I was a phony and I'd know it.

  

  Vivian Stanshall
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Gang

• The rich nations of the world are acting like ancient usurers, lending money to the desperate poor on terms that cannot possibly be met and, thus, steadily acquiring more and more control over the lives and assets of the poor.

  

  William Greider
  • World
  • Acting
  • Rich

• That's all you get," said Alpharius, and split him in half. Alpharius sheathed his gladius, and dragged the sabre out of his torso. He tossed it away, and walked through the liter of bodies to where Namatjira was kneeling on the deck. "Please! My lord primarch! Please, I beg you!" Namtjira pleaded, his hands making a desperate namaste. Alpharius drew his boltgun. "Why?" shrieked Namatjira. "Why are you doing this? "For the Emperor," said Alpharius, and pulled the trigger.

  

  Dan Abnett
  • Body
  • Lord
  • Emperor

• I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Suicide
  • Desperate
  • Getting Married

• The interesting thing for me is that everybody felt that I was really wild when i was unbalanced and desperate to communicate something and didn't have a sense of purpose. But I've never been so crazy and wild as I am with my son or as I am now.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Interesting
  • Crazy
  • Purpose

• 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.

  

  Cecilia Bartoli
  • World
  • Music
  • Important

• In LA, I mean, here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying others for the purposes of their own self-aggrandizement.

  

  Heather Donahue
  • People
  • Purpose
  • Pleasure

• The circumstance that any man could suppose that Matthew when he said, 'Jacob begat Joseph,' or Luke, when he said, 'Joseph was the son of Heli' could refer to the wife of the one, or the daughter-in-law of the other, shows to what desperate stratagems polemical orthodoxy will resort in order to defend an untenable position.

  

  William Rathbone Greg
  • Wife
  • Daughter
  • Circumstances

• OPEC production went from 30 million barrels a day to 33 million. They flooded the market, and it's lost them a lot of money. Look at the Saudis: they just floated a $17.5 billion debt offering, they earlier borrowed $10 billion from a group of international banks; they're selling part of Aramco - they're desperate for money.

  

  Gary Shilling
  • Selling
  • Offering
  • Borrowed

• Essentially, if our secrets are secrets because we are told to be ashamed, then we must share them. There is no shame in being sad or struggling or trying to heal. We are all desperate, depraved and sacred. We are all terrible and brillIant. I can list all the things that can make a girl want to escape her own body (re: patriarchy). But I’d rather list all the things that make me want to stay in my body, and adorn it like a home, rub oils into my skin, tell it how sorry I am for trying to leave, for trying to hurt it into submission

  

  Warsan Shire
  • Trying
  • Struggle
  • Secret

• Necessity urges desperate measures.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Desperate
  • Necessity
  • Measures

• When food becomes scarce, refugees often turn to desperate measures to feed themselves and their families. We are particularly worried about the health of the refugee population, domestic violence and refugees resorting to illegal employment or even to prostitution, just to put enough food on the table.

  

  Antonio Guterres
  • Violence
  • Worry
  • Enough

• Failure may be cruel, but success is crueller still. The gods are usurers, you know; they lend to mortals, but they exact a desperate interest.

  

  Katherine Cecil Thurston
  • May
  • Knows
  • Interest

• We have an almost desperate need for more women to run for office and for more women to really gut it out after they have kids and stay in their jobs and get to high positions in companies. We need women at the top more than ever. We need women's voices there because they are very different than men's voices and they bring a very valuable and necessary point of view to the table.

  

  Mika Brzezinski
  • Different
  • Kids
  • Running

• The most degrading of human passions is the fear of death. It tears away the restraints and the conventions which alone make social life possible to man; it reveals the brute in him which underlies them all. In the desperate hand-to-hand struggle for life there is no element of nobility. He who is engaged upon it throws aside honor, he throws aside self-respect, he throws aside all that would make victory worth having - he asks for nothing but bare life.

  

  Gertrude Bell
  • Death
  • Respect
  • Passion

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