Desperate Quotes

• 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

• Necessity urges desperate measures.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Desperate
  • Necessity
  • Measures

• 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

• I sing the hymn of the conquered, who fell in the Battle of Life,-The hymn of the wounded, the beaten, who died overwhelmed in the strife....The hymn of the low and the humble, the weary, the broken in heart,Who strove and who failed, acting bravely a silent and desperate part.

  

  William Wetmore Story
  • Acting
  • Humble
  • Battle

• The other day, I was so desperate for a beer, I snuck into the football stadium and ate the dirt under the bleachers.

  

  Homer
  • Desperate
  • Dirt
  • Bleachers

• 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.

  

  Mick Cornett
  • People
  • Running
  • Conscious

• The quantum entered physics with a jolt. It didn't fit anywhere; it made no sense; it contradicted everything we thought we knew about nature. Yet the data seemed to demand it. ... The story of Werner Heisenberg and his science is the story of the desperate failures and ultimate triumphs of the small band of brilliant physicists who-during an incredibly intense period of struggle with the data, the theories, and each other during the 1920s-brought about a revolutionary new understanding of the atomic world known as quantum mechanics.

  

  David C. Cassidy
  • Nature
  • Science
  • Understanding

• It was Vivaldi's Mandolin Concerto, Francesca Abraham realized as the radio alarm went off. Lively, unrelentingly upbeat, it was the perfect tempo in which to start the day. Covering her head with a pillow, she reached out blindly and urgently, desperate to shut the damn thing off.

  

  Naomi Ragen
  • Head
  • Desperate
  • Alarm

• There are no desperate situations, there are only desperate people.

  

  Heinz Guderian
  • Situation
  • Desperate

• What is the use of preaching the Gospel to men whose whole attention is concentrated upon a mad, desperate struggle to keep themselves alive?

  

  William Booth
  • Men
  • Attention
  • Struggle

• You have two stark choices when you find yourself in a really desperate situation. You can either fold and cave-in to it or you can become really passionate about getting out of it. When you're really passionate, you're going to grab hold of every rope you see, and wrap them around your arms and legs to claw your way out. And that's the way I've felt in my life.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Situation
  • Passionate
  • Arms

• 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

• M. J. Putney has created true magic with this book, the kind that comes when you curl up in a comfortable armchair and let the story take your imagination away. Come visit an enchanted eighteenth-century England and meet two desperate lovers caught in the web of a sinister lord with great magical power. Romantic and lyrical, this tale will fill your reading time with pleasure. I loved it.

  

  Catherine Asaro
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Kind

• These are very desperate conditions that we're in now. These are the wrong conditions for the use of fireworks of any kind under any circumstances.

  

  Gary Young Pavement
  • Wrong
  • Conditions
  • Fireworks

• Not only was Dan Cooper likely an alias, but many people suspected at the time were people living under assumed names. The '50s and '60s were a time when some people were desperate to leave their lives. They felt trapped in their marriages or their jobs, and they were seeking freedom. And one of the ways to do that, because technology wasn't advanced as it is today, was just to take over somebody's name.

  

  Geoffrey Gray
  • Technology
  • Seeking
  • Aliases

• Some people are desperate because they don't know how to ask for His grace.

  

  Bree Despain
  • Grace
  • Desperate
  • Don't Know

• Empirically, all pornography is made under conditions of inequality based on sex, overwhelmingly by poor, desperate, homeless, pimped women who were sexually abused as children.

  

  Catharine MacKinnon
  • Children
  • Poor
  • Homeless

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

  

  Ernest Becker
  • Whole
  • Instruments
  • Undoing

• Can you imagine what it would do to a person, to know that they were standing between three people and that marrow-deep, desperate need?

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Person
  • Need
  • Imagine

• This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it's ready to come undone. You have to realize it's going to be a long process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Work
  • Advice
  • Impatient

• Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.

  

  William Weld
  • Blessing
  • Boredom
  • Forgiven

• We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Mission
  • Desperate
  • Chart

• I find it ironic and unfortunately because people are very vulnerable to populism now these days because they are desperate, we had really difficult times and we had difficult decisions to make. It is natural and it is logical to have people trying to not to vote for Syriza but to vote against the big parties that were in the Government for the last decade. So it is something that you can explain that way.

  

  Eva Kaili
  • Government
  • Decisions
  • Vote

• When I am not desperate, I am worthless.

  

  Ivo Andric
  • Desperate
  • Worthless

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