Quotes about Be Desperate

A thing can be true and still be desperate folly. Votes: 3

A thing can be true and still be desperate folly, Hazel. Votes: 3

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate. Votes: 3

For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live ... Votes: 3

You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman. Votes: 3

I learnt not to be desperate in bad times, and I am learning not to be bullish when times are good. Votes: 3

You know how many reasons we have to be desperate and despairing, the world is not learning anything. We have seen that. Votes: 3

Yes, testosterone-sodden young men too unattractive to get a woman in this world might be desperate enough to go for 72 private virgins in the next. Votes: 3

Who could be more desperate than filmmakers? Votes: 2

A monk's extraordinary patience can be a hindrance to desperate decision-making. Votes: 2

I think I'm probably a little too desperate to be successful. Votes: 2

Desperate? That can be a justification for all kinds of behavior. Votes: 2

Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl. Votes: 2

I might be needy, competitive and desperate but it's far better than being wet. Votes: 2

My mother's father was a doctor, and she desperately wanted to be a doctor. Votes: 2

I'm not desperate but I know that some day I'll be the coach again of some team. Votes: 2

For the moment I prefer to be a beautiful woman of my age than try desperately to look 30. Votes: 2

I've been the type of father who tries desperately to be perfect but doesn't succeed all the time. Votes: 2

I used desperately to want to be a brooding hero from literature, but I'm optimistic, healthy and fair-haired. Votes: 2

I so desperately wanted to be Mr. Somebody. Instead, I was the little brother, included to a point. Votes: 2

As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories. Votes: 2

When I was about 5 I think, I desperately wanted to be a pirate and have the hat and everything. Votes: 2

I think the whole idea of me was that I wasn't going to be but that I wanted to be, desperately. Votes: 2

I think a lot of people who feel as though they desperately want to be married oftentimes simply desperately want to have a wedding. Votes: 2

In New York, everyone's desperate for success, desperate for money and desperate to be accepted, but in London they're more laid back about things like that. Votes: 2

It's no fun to be a struggling young actor. It's a desperate thing, no way to be happy. If you have any alternative, you should take it. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Votes: 2

Sequels are desperate. Votes: 0

Necessity urges desperate measures. Votes: 0

Desperate affairs require desperate remedies. Votes: 0

Desperate affairs require desperate measures. Votes: 0

Desperate times breed desperate measures Votes: 0

Desperate ills need desperate remedies. Votes: 0

But desperate people find courage. Votes: 0

Tempt not a desperate man Votes: 0

We celebrities are desperate pigs. Votes: 0

Haiti is in desperate poverty. Votes: 0

Marriage is a desperate thing. Votes: 0

Hope is a desperate man's currency. Votes: 0

Desperate is not a sexual preference. Votes: 0

In desperate position, you must fight. Votes: 0

Desperate courage makes One a majority. Votes: 0

I never let myself get desperate. Votes: 0

Desperate times call for desperate analogies. Votes: 0

Haste is needful in a desperate case. Votes: 0

The term itself--my life--is a desperate overstatement. Votes: 0

A LeBron James team is never desperate. Votes: 0

There's this huge number of desperate people. Votes: 0

For a desperate disease a desperate cure. Votes: 0

A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy. Votes: 0

I am desperate to do a comedy now. Votes: 0

God doesn't answer prayer, He answers desperate prayer! Votes: 0

Satan is hopelessly desperate as Jesus waits patiently. Votes: 0

There is nobody more terrible than the desperate. Votes: 0

I've never been desperate to please my father. Votes: 0

We don't need to respond with desperate violence. Votes: 0

But a desperate heart will seduce the mind. Votes: 0

That isn't a desperate act. That's a PLAN. Votes: 0

I'm desperate to start a career in music. Votes: 0

Deep inside, I am desperate to do comedy. Votes: 0

When I am not desperate, I am worthless. Votes: 0

The Hallows, the Hallows. A desperate man's dream! Votes: 0

People get desperate when they're backed into a corner. Votes: 0

Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage. Votes: 0

There's always somebody older, richer, more desperate than you. Votes: 0

When there's fear people act out in desperate ways. Votes: 0

I am absolutely desperate to win a Super Bowl. Votes: 0

Are we not all desperate one way or another? Votes: 0

Once a week, I am a very desperate man. Votes: 0

Like your the ocean and he's desperate to drown. Votes: 0

In this desperate way, I started many a comedy. Votes: 0

The desperate usually succeed because they have nothing to lose. Votes: 0

Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best Votes: 0

There are no desperate situations, there are only desperate people. Votes: 0

Sometimes that's all life is... One desperate act after another. Votes: 0

Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it. Votes: 0

I have a desperate longing to have a desperate longing Votes: 0

The end of a dissolute life is a desperate death. Votes: 0

Can you imagine a silence so desperate to be heard? Votes: 0

In a year of re-election he was desperate to impress. Votes: 0

There arc no such things as desperate situations. Only desperate men. Votes: 0

Somewhere between love and hate lies confusion, misunderstanding and desperate hope. Votes: 0

Like carnivores to carnal pleasures As are we to desperate measures Votes: 0

We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff. Votes: 0

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. Votes: 0

When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face. Votes: 0

There was always an opportunity in crisis, however desperate things seemed. Votes: 0

We are in desperate need of a well-done romantic lesbian comedy. Votes: 0

In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest. Votes: 0

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about. Votes: 0

In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid. Votes: 0

The best evangelists, the best preachers, the best teachers are desperate people. Votes: 0

From Toscanini I learnt the essential and desperate seriousness of making music. Votes: 0

Diseases desperate grown By desperate appliances are relieved, Or not at all. Votes: 0

As lives go, I'll take the quietly desperate over the radically bipolar. Votes: 0

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate. Votes: 0

People care and are willing to help me out my desperate circumstances. Votes: 0

Some people, when desperate, retreat to pills or hard liquor. I nap. Votes: 0

Single gals aren't all a bunch of Bridget Joneses, desperate for love. Votes: 0

God does not answer our desperate questionings; he simply gives us himself. Votes: 0

I'm not one of those people who are desperate to get married. Votes: 0

The end of a dissolute life is most commonly a desperate death. Votes: 0

What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once. Votes: 0

Superheroes were born in the minds of people desperate to be rescued. Votes: 0

Nothing is so dangerous for our security as large groups of desperate people. Votes: 0

This Congress is out of control and in desperate need of adult supervision. Votes: 0

The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people. Votes: 0

I'm sentimental--I know. I'm desperate and silly--I know that too. Oh, help me! Votes: 0

Desperate, yet no longer alone after that day, because we'd found each other. Votes: 0

Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press. Votes: 0

The desperate hope that the patient will be healed... That's the last treatment. Votes: 0

The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness. Votes: 0

Star-crossed lovers desperate to get home together. Two hearts beating as one. Romance. Votes: 0

When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly. Votes: 0

Nothing more or less than the deepest, most desperate desire of our hearts. Votes: 0

Legends were not only for the desperate. Legends were for the brave. (Soren) Votes: 0

I'm sorry if this all seems a little rushed and desperate. It is. Votes: 0

I've always said that people are desperate to find meaning in their lives. Votes: 0

Anyone who is desperate or alone will agree there is comfort in routine. Votes: 0

I still believe in the need for guitars and drums and desperate poetry. Votes: 0

O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men! Votes: 0

I got to that desperate place where nobody could help me but God. Votes: 0

You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you. Votes: 0

One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes. Votes: 0

I've always said that people are desperate to find meaning in their lives. Votes: 0

Once you connect with yourself, it is impossible to be lonely or desperate. Votes: 0

writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers. Votes: 0

Logos are the bleating of the insecure, desperate for acceptance by the chronically shallow. Votes: 0

Along with a livable wage, many parents are desperate for quality affordable child care. Votes: 0

Prison, blood, death, create enthusiasts and martyrs, and bring forth courage and desperate resolution. Votes: 0

And I suppose tapes are a desperate attempt to steal something from Death's suitcase. Votes: 0

In many situations that seemed desperate, the artillery has been a most vital factor. Votes: 0

My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised. Votes: 0

While I was doing 'Desperate Housewives,' I actually watched it from the beginning. Votes: 0

Better be a desperate single with options than a desperate married with no options. Votes: 0

Middle-class people are becoming desperate. It can cause a moral man to break bad. Votes: 0

despite all our desperate, eternal attempts to separate, contain and mend, categories always leak. Votes: 0

I know he was desperate. That makes people do all kinds of crazy things. Votes: 0

Some people are desperate because they don't know how to ask for His grace. Votes: 0

The desperate addict is closer to the heart of grace than the devout moralist. Votes: 0

I've never met anyone who wanted to be a terrorist. They are desperate people. Votes: 0

The Kingdom of Heaven is not for the well-meaning: it is for the desperate. Votes: 0

The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it. Votes: 0

If you are curious, you will learn. If you are desperate, you will discover. Votes: 0

At the beginning, you should only hire when you have a desperate need to. Votes: 0

When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful. Votes: 0

The more desperate you are to reach heaven, the deeper you descend into hell. Votes: 0

Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. Votes: 0

Social reform is the desperate decision to remove corns from a person suffering from cancer. Votes: 0

That's the funny thing about knowing you can't have something. It makes you desperate. -Leah Votes: 0

Business practices and how we treat the planet are also in desperate need of re-humanization. Votes: 0

For people who are desperate and searching, sexuality on the Internet offers an incredible release. Votes: 0

In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up. Votes: 0

To annihilate the world by annihilation of oneself is the deluded height of desperate egoism. Votes: 0

So they were desperately in love and being desperately in love involves a desperate existence. Votes: 0

Printing money is the last resort of desperate governments when all other policies have failed. Votes: 0

I believe that human beings are desperate, always, to belong to something larger than themselves. Votes: 0

Crimes are more often committed out of fear than wickedness. People live frightened, desperate lives. Votes: 0

We don't have a desperate need to grow. We have a desperate desire to grow. Votes: 0

The books weren't exactly Linnet's general reading fare, but a desperate woman will read anything. Votes: 0

This is an industry that generates addicted gamblers and they are desperate to get money Votes: 0

Have we all become so desperate to share everything that we've stopped enjoying our lives~? Votes: 0

I was desperate really for people not to accuse me of coldness. It was taboo. Votes: 0

Better be a desperate single with many options than a sad married with no option. Votes: 0

I was just the youngest in the family, and most in desperate need of attention. Votes: 0

Better be a desperate single with many options than a desperate married with no option. Votes: 0

The tragedy of today is that the situation is desperate but the saints are not. Votes: 0

This is the way the world really ends: not with whimper but a desperate chuckle. Votes: 0

He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday. Votes: 0

Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself. Votes: 0

Those that dare lose a day, ate dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, are desperate. Votes: 0

She stays in the same spot, anchored by the profound, desperate loneliness of a bad relationship. Votes: 0

Adolescence involves our nutty-desperate-ecstatic-rash psychological efforts to come to terms with new bodies and outrageous urges. Votes: 0

Abortion is not a sign that women are free, but a sign that they are desperate. Votes: 0

Paradise is to be the ultimate instrument, fulfilling God's desperate intent that we love each other. Votes: 0

A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people. Votes: 0

The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug. Votes: 0

I'm not yet desperate enough to do anything about the conditions that are making me desperate. Votes: 0

When one drops everything to come to aide one in desperate need of support, that's love Votes: 0

I am desperate for change - now - not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now. Votes: 0

I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know. Votes: 0

I'd be smiling if I wasn't so desperate. I'd be patient if I had the time. Votes: 0

People who don't make something good of what they've got are bound to end up desperate. Votes: 0

A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader. Votes: 0

I'm desperate to work again. I've often had those periods, but two years was the longest. Votes: 0

Are you desperate or determined? With desperation comes frustration. With determination comes purpose, achievement, and peace. Votes: 0

A nation that turns away from prayer will ultimately find itself in desperate need of it. Votes: 0

I am desperate and vulnerable. ... I am always terrified.... Beauty can sometimes be so very troublesome. Votes: 0

Remember; no matter how desperate the situation seems, time spent thinking clearly is never time wasted. Votes: 0

Life is a process by which a few desperate longings morph into a thousand meaningless wants. Votes: 0

I guess the GOP may be more desperate than I thought to call somebody like me. Votes: 0

About the time I told God that He didn't exist, I was desperate for an identity. Votes: 0

Ground on which we can only be saved from destruction by fighting without delay, is desperate ground. Votes: 0

It's still about the women. It's not called Desperate Plumber. People are more interested in cat fights. Votes: 0

Madonna reinforces everything absurd and offensive. Desperate womanhood. Madonna is closer to organized prostitution than anything else. Votes: 0

Desperate men do desperate things when you take hope away. And that's where the Palestinians are today. Votes: 0

Prayer, desperate prayer, seems so simple, but it's a step rarely taken by those in family conflict. Votes: 0

Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts. Votes: 0

Everything bleeds into everything and fiction is just this funny desperate little attempt to staunch the bleeding. Votes: 0

Christians can trust God to redeem even the greatest of tragedies and the most desperate of situations. Votes: 0

My taking a seat on the Council of the Fathers caused a desperate fluttering among my ghosts. Votes: 0

Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason. Votes: 0

Black is now in desperate need of a good idea. Or, to put it standard chess notation, +- Votes: 0

I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power. Votes: 0

We can't be so desperate for love that we forget where we can always find it; within. Votes: 0

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard. Votes: 0

I've worked with the greatest actors, and they're all gone. This is what's so desperate to me. Votes: 0

If you're going to make a desperate, hopeless act of defiance you should make it a good one. Votes: 0

No, truth is something desperate, an' she's got it. Believe me, it's something desperate, an' she's got it. Votes: 0

By trying to control everything we become very neurotic, more and more desperate. It's a huge tragic thing. Votes: 0

We've poisoned our planet to a desperate degree. We have no idea of how severe the toxification is. Votes: 0

Pursuit is a rather desperate act in itself. There's something kind of frantic about the notion of pursuit. Votes: 0

During the desperate depression of the 1980s, there were no oil and gas companies without net operating losses. Votes: 0

I read that book 'Fat is a Feminist Issue', got a bit desperate halfway through and ate it. Votes: 0

Poverty breeds a lot of things. When people are desperate and trying to survive, they do drastic things. Votes: 0

A desperate plea to the Trinityis not something you can justapologize for in the morning-Drunk Dialing the Divine Votes: 0

Nations, like individuals, cannot become desperate gamblers with impunity. Punishment is sure to overtake them sooner or later. Votes: 0

Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes. Votes: 0

A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail. Votes: 0

When a person feels so trapped and no options, they become desperate and in the middle of desperation. Votes: 0

For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate. Votes: 0

His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship. Votes: 0

He could shred me so easily. A few words, a desperate look, and I was cut wide open. Votes: 0

That if desperate times call for desperate measures, then I'm free to act as desperately as I wish. Votes: 0

[] A society that drives its members to desperate solutions is a non-viable society, a society to be replaced. Votes: 0

When you start reading nonfiction books about piracy, you realize that it's actually just a history of desperate people. Votes: 0

Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song. Votes: 0

This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property ordoes itself and leads the will to desperate undertakings. Votes: 0

In my experience what I'm hearing from people now is that they're just desperate to hear about something else. Votes: 0

Real Christians revel in desperate ventures for Christ, expecting from God great things and attempting the same with exhilaration. Votes: 0

I realize how desperate it sounds for me, as a comedian, to ask you to laugh at my jokes. Votes: 0

Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear. Votes: 0

When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho. Votes: 0

The destruction of the world is the last, almost desperate attempt to save myself from being crushed by it Votes: 0

Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out. Votes: 0

Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings. Votes: 0

Sometimes I do 'So Desperate' solo in the middle of the set. I really love to sing that song. Votes: 0

I swim with all my strength. No superhuman surge, or pony heroics; it's just me at my most desperate. Votes: 0

If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback. Votes: 0

It'sthe fate of most Ping-Pong tables in home basements eventually to serve the ends of other, more desperate games. Votes: 0

The Universal Consciousness's feeling is unqualified love for all of its creatures,no matter how foolish and desperate they act. Votes: 0

While the Japanese droned on in a high-pitched voice, I blinked out the desperate message over and over. TORTURE...TORTURE... Votes: 0

In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock. Votes: 0

All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage. Votes: 0

Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained. Votes: 0

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave. Votes: 0

I was desperate for something to read that dealt realistically with teenage life, and I thought others might be, too. Votes: 0

There isn't a thing to eat down there in the rabbit hole of your bitterness except your own desperate heart. Votes: 0

The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people. Votes: 0

I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape. Votes: 0

I've begun to wonder if we wouldn't also regard spelunkers as desperate criminals if AT&T owned all the caves. Votes: 0

Something is profoundly wrong and we are desperate for justice, for restoration and for somebody somewhere to do something about this. Votes: 0

So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse Met ever, and to shameful silence brought, Yet gives not o'er though desperate of success. Votes: 0

I got my first job as a card-carrying actor in New York in 1967. Before that, I was a very desperate wannabe. Votes: 0

The conception of each star was at the point of no return; of a desperate soul struggling to master the winds! Votes: 0

The only people who are desperate to go on the show are people we're desperate not to have on the show. Votes: 0

I couldn't imagine, and I don't say this with any pride, but I really couldn't imagine writing without a desperate deadline. Votes: 0

War is very uncertain in its results, and often when affairs look most desperate they suddenly assume a more hopeful state. Votes: 0

I know. I was hoping," I say. "Exactly. Because you're desperate," says Haymitch. I don't argue because, of course, he's right. Votes: 0

Every morning I wake up with the news of bloodshed. I feel my body, desperate to know whether I'm still alive. Votes: 0

Wherever you may seek solitude, men will ferret you out and compel you to belong to their desperate company of oddfellows. Votes: 0

Love happens! I release the desperate need for love, and instead, allow it to find me in the perfect time-space sequence. Votes: 0

The Test arena is a place I have been desperate to get back to, it is the pinnacle of the sport Votes: 0

When you're young and desperate to hold on to a place in the team you do whatever is asked of you. Votes: 0

Old love, middle love, the kind of love that knows itself and knows that nothing lasts, is a desperate shared wildness. Votes: 0

Cleverness is like rouge - liberal application makes a woman look common and desperate. Wit is knowing how to apply it. Votes: 0

I just want my name back so my life can go back to chaotic and weird instead of chaotic and desperate. Votes: 0

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love. Votes: 0

She hated that she was still so desperate for a glimpse of him, but it had been this way for years. Votes: 0

We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth. Votes: 0

People today are desperate for leaders, but they want to be influenced only by individuals they can trust, persons of good character. Votes: 0

Prayer is never just an emergency flare or desperate anxious gamble. God's attention is not based on our performance but parental love. Votes: 0

New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign, Votes: 0

Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress. Votes: 0

Hold onto me baby. I'm going to take care of you." The raspy need in his voice only made me more desperate. Votes: 0

The devastation of neoliberalism is so multi-fold, whether it's violence against women or desperate economic inequality or the destruction of the planet. Votes: 0

Some folks hide, and some folks seek, and seeking, when it's mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous can be a form of hiding. Votes: 0

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting Votes: 0

Hermione's eyes lit up with a terrible light of helpfulness and something in the back of Harry's brain screamed in desperate humiliation. Votes: 0

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting. Votes: 0

When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can. Votes: 0

People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think. Votes: 0

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out. Votes: 0

Place your army in deadly peril, and it will survive; plunge it into desperate straits, and it will come off in safety. Votes: 0

The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God's joke on humanity. It is man's last desperate stand at superintendency. Votes: 0

Once you base your whole life striving on a desperate lie, and try to implement that lie, you instrument your own undoing. Votes: 0

He had found my worst weakness: I was one of those people who was desperate to be needed, to matter to someone. Votes: 0

we've learned an interesting rule about fame. Those who seem desperate for it are the people that others least want to see. Votes: 0

Grieve only if you have committed a sin, but even in this case do not grieve too much, otherwise you may become desperate. Votes: 0

Don't be sad! Because God sends hope in the most desperate moments. Don't forget, the heaviest rain comes out of the darkest clouds. Votes: 0

The self-assured strength that grows from knowing that we already have what we need makes us gentle, because we are no longer desperate. Votes: 0

The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen. Votes: 0

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

She squeezed her thighs together, desperate for relief. Aiming for completion without doing something so deliberate as touching herself. Look ma, no hands! Votes: 0

Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel It runs a headlong course to desperate madness. Votes: 0

There's something very addictive about people pleasing. It's a thought pattern and a habit that feels really, really good until it becomes desperate. Votes: 0

Jumping through any hoop or taking advantage of any desperate situation that comes up just to sell a product is harmful. It is. Votes: 0

God is in desperate search for those sons he could send to the world of sports to rule and manage it for him Votes: 0

When you see government leaders really bullying business, you know that government's economic policy is failing. They get angry and they get desperate. Votes: 0

Self-mutilation is a frightening barrier that keeps us from seeing a person who is lost, in pain, and in desperate need of help. Votes: 0

Imagine yourself acclaimed, a decorated national hero, an idol to millions of desperate people, then within six months, condemned to death by hanging. Votes: 0

I make dark dramas, movies about people living in desperate fear who then overcome that fear and find a heroic side to themselves. Votes: 0

Life, unlike the inanimate, will take the long way round to circumvent barrenness. A kind of desperate will resides even in a root. Votes: 0

We need books...because we are all, in the private kingdoms of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend. Votes: 0

Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it. Votes: 0

Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work-it's a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love him. Votes: 0

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable." Votes: 0

The other day, I was so desperate for a beer, I snuck into the football stadium and ate the dirt under the bleachers. Votes: 0

I only escaped from Tibet because I feared my people would resort to desperate violence if the Chinese took me as their prisoner. Votes: 0

What is the use of preaching the Gospel to men whose whole attention is concentrated upon a mad, desperate struggle to keep themselves alive? Votes: 0

I'm desperate to have children. I am chomping at the bit. It's a problem. I can't imagine that I will not be a mother. Votes: 0

I would never wear anything too revealing. I'm not a fan of dresses where you look nude... I think that looks a bit desperate. Votes: 0

I just got really desperate to pay rent. It was weird, man. I had to wrestle a fake pussy off a crack head once. Votes: 0

There will be a great imbalance in our strengths if we fight, because I am prepared to die and you are desperate to live. Votes: 0

There are moments where the mighty death feels itself desperate too! To see the trees growing in solid rocks is one of these moments! Votes: 0

Changing schools and friends is hard on children and can often make them desperate and lonely enough to form closer ties with a sibling. Votes: 0

As a Formula One driver, you dream about winning your first race all your life. I am desperate to know what it feels like. Votes: 0

If you're writing about angry people, you use the language of anger. If you're writing about desperate people, you use the language of desperation. Votes: 0

All the Democrats do is bicker. They're not concerned about the war or the fate of the United States of America. They're desperate characters. Votes: 0

Growing up, my family was an enemy of the state. I have experienced more disappointment than joy, much more sad stories or desperate conditions. Votes: 0

I planned so well for my post-'Cosby Show' life that I don't have to make desperate acting choices that conflict with what my values. Votes: 0

I hate women like that. They're so desperate for the attention of men that they'd willingly betray and harm members of their own sex Votes: 0

The future is itself a story, and predictions are stories we tell to amaze ourselves, to give hope to the desperate, to jolt the complacent. Votes: 0

Desperate people lose the thing that makes them human beings. They lose their heart. Anger and hate fill them so that they act like animals. Votes: 0

But what is the use of preaching the Gospel to men whose whole attention is concentrated upon a mad, desperate struggle to keep themselves alive? Votes: 0

The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to create order out of the desperate confusion of our time. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Tantra is for the desperate. Unless you've really experienced pain and suffering, tantra won't work. Unless you've really experienced exultation and ecstasy, tantra won't work. Votes: 0

She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life. Votes: 0

To put up a show is to face life's injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination. Votes: 0

I want to be a worshiper with that heart-desperate to be as close to my Savior as possible, and following his every move and step. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The unemployment rate is now at 9.2%, which is scary, because experts say 9.5 is the point at which people are desperate enough to consider Michele Bachmann. Votes: 0

On the streets of the city They have taken my Who-I-Am As well as my What-I-Was And now I am desperate for them both Again Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

She would buy magic every day of the week. Love me, that face said. I'm so lonely, so desperate. I'll give you whatever you want. Votes: 0

The big reason why I became an actor in the first place was to communicate. I never acted in high school...I was desperate to communicate. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The newsprint thesp celebrity interview as a middle-brow art form suffers from desperate overproduction. There'll be at least 10 in the broadsheets today and every Sunday hereafter. Votes: 0

My first kiss. A new kind of kiss, like the new kind of music still playing, softly, in the distance - wild and arrhythmic, desperate. Passionate. Votes: 0

I took desperate measures to lose weight and did terrible things to myself. I went from diet pills to thirty laxatives a day to throwing up. Votes: 0

I'm less desperate now to express what's inside me, that's true - I act these days because it keeps me awake and interested, an eternal student. Votes: 0

The conformist understands that the reason of his desperate look for conformism is that he realises he is different and that he never accepted his difference. Votes: 0

The void is a mouth crying to be filled, a blank mind aching for thought, a cavity desperate for shape. What is not implies what is. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I don't believe the American people will uphold any political party that puts political exploitation above national interest. Surely we Republicans aren't that desperate for victory. Votes: 0

There are patterns because we try to find them. A desperate attempt at order because we can't face the terror that it might all be random. Votes: 0

The modern era has brought up immense conveniences but at what price. The human heart is desperate for something more than a quicker serving of popcorn. Votes: 0

In my life, I have driven some crappy vehicles. But I have never been so desperate for a vehicle that I wanted a used rental car. Votes: 0

Men and women who are used of GOD, if I had only a few words to describe them, they are the passionate-weak, they are the violently-desperate. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion, say, or Obama's birthplace - tend to come when an opponent is desperate and can't sell himself. Votes: 0

Until that moment she had never thought she could do it. Never thought she would be brave enough or scared enough, or desperate enough to dare. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

This is how the great post-partisan, post-racial, New Politics presidency ends-not with a bang, not with a whimper, but with a desperate election-eve plea for ethnic retribution. Votes: 0

Forget the statistics...we have to do more. You cannot look these children in the eye and see how desperate is their situation without wanting to help. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The Lord knew I would someday be charged with the priesthood responsibility for hundreds and even thousands of Heavenly Father's children who were in desperate temporal need. Votes: 0

I have become increasingly used to the Tory party mimicking our policies and phrases in a desperate effort to pretend to their members they are still Eurosceptic. Votes: 0

Smartass Disciple: I've been searching for so long.I still can't find the truth.Master of Stupidity: Until you've lost and felt desperate, you won't be found. Votes: 0

'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. Votes: 0

I'm not desperate anymore or feeling weird about myself because I'm not working in this business. I'm older and wiser, and there's a lot more to life. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

You don't dare think whole even to yourself the entirety of a dear hope or wish let alone a desperate one else you yourself have doomed it. Votes: 0

You go from these high hopes when you're writing to just a desperate want of not making a complete fool of yourself by the end of it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Having to squeeze the last drop of utility out of the land has the same desperate finality as having to chop up the furniture to keep warm. Votes: 0

She had never imagined that the kiss would be so brief and desperate and wild. Or that it would taste of holy water. Holy water and blood. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The Brothers Grimm came along and I was so desperate for work ... Actually I've got to say that I like the movie, I won't apologize for it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'm too old to be humiliated on reality shows, and I don't want to look desperate. You won't see me on 'Big Brother' or in the jungle. Votes: 0

And now I understand that truth casts a spell of its own, one I'm not sure of how to hold on to, though I'm desperate to try. Votes: 0

Every remedy is a desperate remedy. Every cure is a miraculous cure. Curing a madman is not arguing with a philosopher; it is casting out a devil. Votes: 0

Right after 'Desperate' sold to China, we were the most watched show around the world at the time. That's really something great to be a part of. Votes: 0

The truth is, living in any society is difficult. Those who become desperate with a fractured sense of security are much more prone to being taken advantaged of. Votes: 0

When we recognize the rod of a father, should we not show ourselves docile children rather than rebelliously desperate men who have been hardened in their evil doings? Votes: 0

Sex and excretion are reminders that anyone's claim to round-the-clock dignity is tenuous. The so-called rational animal has a desperate drive to pair up and moan and writhe. Votes: 0

These are pictures of the people in my family where we look like the most awkward and desperate folk you ever saw, poster children for the human condition. Votes: 0

There are moments when one feels a desperate gratitude for museums, whatever their own ambiguous histories. Their objects from lost cities lead us back to who we are. Votes: 0

Our personalities seem dangerously to blur and overlap with our mother's; and, in a desperate attempt to know where mother ends and daughter begins, we perform radical surgery. Votes: 0

Some people probably think of the Resurrection as a desperate last moment expedient to save the Hero from a situation which had got out of the Author's control. Votes: 0

Some of our best episodes of 'Buffy' were written over a weekend. You can really get in touch with your creative spirit when you're at your most desperate. Votes: 0

Human beings have hope. Not matter how desperate things are, they convince themselves that they can change things for the better." - John Gregory (Clash of the Demons) Votes: 0

I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

you don't need talent to be an artist. 'Artist' is just a frame of mind. Anybody can be an artist, anybody can communicate if they are desperate enough. Votes: 0

I am desperate for attention. But everyone else is too. Everyone has fantasies of fame and greatness. Life for most people is a process of shedding those fantasies. Votes: 0

In my work in Haiti, I've seen the hugely positive effects that happen when people come together to build something in the middle of the most desperate situations. Votes: 0

We have a desperate need for producers in the [commercial Broadway] theatre, and it is very hard for them to get money and find investors for new plays. Votes: 0

Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society. Votes: 0

My experience has been in a short 77 years that in the end when you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Pursue not a victory too far. He hath conquered well that hath made his enemy fly; thou mayest beat him to a desperate resistance, which may ruin thee. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

No scheme for a change of society can be made to appear immediately palatable, except by falsehood, until society has become so desperate that it will accept any change. Votes: 0

Maybe I'm wrong," Mom said. "Maybe the world really is coming to an end." "Should I try Fox News?" I asked. Mom shuddered. "We're not that desperate," she said. Votes: 0

The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are. Votes: 0

I've never thought of myself as a classic leading man. I'm a character actor who happens to play leading roles. Come on, look at me. I'm really Desperate Dan. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard. Votes: 0

I think I started out because I was desperate for approval and acceptance and praise. Some actors never break away from that. They're after that validation their whole life. Votes: 0

Desperate Housewives' was a good experience, though, as I got to play the bad guy for once. My only complaint was they had me in a lot of sweaters. Votes: 0

This is how God works. He puts people in positions where they are desperate for his power, and then he shows his provision in ways that display his greatness Votes: 0

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime. Votes: 0

Our need is so desperate an idea, a thing, a law can't help us. It took one thing, the gift of gifts, God in the flesh, to rescue us. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Suicide is a desperate attempt to get out of what seems to be an intolerable situation. It appears to be a way of escape from the pain of living. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Her heart was pounding impossibly fast. Then she realized She was feeling both of their hearts, racing each other. A kind of desperate conversation, one they couldn't have with words. Votes: 0

This was a matter of some small group of guerrillas in some distant caves, a primitive, fanatical, and desperate people who didn't have the resources to intimidate the United States. Votes: 0

It's people politics, people dynamics that make a show really good, whether it's 'Desperate Housewives' or 'Lost' or 'The Sopranos.' It's the people we've grown to love or otherwise. Votes: 0

If we are desperate, though , if we have nothing to lose, or if we are full of enthusiasm for life, then the unknown reveals itself, and our universe changes direction. Votes: 0

Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The sensuality of desperate lives. Only poets talk like that. But poetry has never had an answer for anything. All it does it bear witness. To despair. And desperate lives. Votes: 0

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) Votes: 0

As people get more desperate, history suggests that they're not going to rise in a mighty proletarian tidal wave and wash away their oppressors. They're gonna turn on each other. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I never know what all of these guys are thinking, but Marco Rubio sounded desperate, like, We`ve got a leak in the dike, we got to stop this thing. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Ever your desire is to appear lordly and generous as a king of old... But in desperate hours gentleness may be repaid with death.''So be it,' said Faramir. Votes: 0

Very, very rare that you do a job knowing that the audience is desperate for you to do that job. Most films you make don't get released, is the fact. Votes: 0

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.' Votes: 0

I'm doing my bit for the women's movement. The women have always been naked in movies, and now I'm just desperate to take my clothes off as much as possible. Votes: 0

Restless, and in desperate need of adventure, I quit my job at an insurance company to travel west with a couple of guys I smoked pot with, scandalizing my family. Votes: 0

My disease is one of the best things that has happened to me; it has pulled me out of a quietly desperate life toward one full of love and hope. Votes: 0

My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.' Votes: 0

I want to again highlight the desperate need for us to pull together - the world over - to tackle knife crime and teach everyone how sacred a life is. Votes: 0

Human beings can reach such desperate solitude that they may cross a boundary beyond which words cannot serve, and at such moments there is nothing left for them but to bark. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

love is a chemical imbalance, too. That perilous highs and desperate lows and extravagant flurries of mood are not always symptoms of a broken mind, but signs of a beating heart. Votes: 0

Autumn is a season of desperate hopes. The leaves are souls begging to turn life on pause. Begging to stop, begging to take a break, hiding under smiles and childish words. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

If all you were left believing was what you were seeing, it'd be nothing but desperate. To have hope, you're going to have to imagine that there's something behind the curtain. Votes: 0

I have a need to always make people laugh. I have a desperate need. I love a great sense of humor. The people I sort of surround myself with have that. Votes: 0

If all we seek is an escape, what does that say about the world we live in. We are desperate with our dreams. What - oh, what - does that say? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When test scores go up, we should worry, because of how poor a measure they are of what matters, and what you typically sacrifice in a desperate effort to raise scores. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

For pale and trembling anger rushes in With faltering speech, and eyes that wildly stare, Fierce as the tiger, madder than the seas, Desperate and armed with more than human strength. Votes: 0

I'd always loved movies, but it wasn't some sort of desperate love of celluloid. It was literally like, "I want to write things, and I want people to see them more." Votes: 0

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me. Votes: 0

I could have lied. I could have fought. But desperate times call for desperate measures, so I took a chance and called upon a Gallagher Girl's weapon of last resort. I flirted Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When things are really desperate and hopeless and you can't do anything about this, and there's a sense that something must be done, that is something usually leads to the U.N. Votes: 0

No war can end war except a total war which leaves no human creature on earth. Each war creates the causes of war: hate, desire for revenge and have-nots, desperate with need. Votes: 0

My brother died of cancer two years ago (1998), renal cell carcinoma. He was my only real brother and I didn't know what to do. I'd never been so desperate in my life. Votes: 0

Whether it was power they sought, or revenge, or love-well, those were all just different forms of hunger. The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It was sad, like those businessmen who came to work in serious clothes but wore colorful ties in a mad, desperate attempt to show there was a free spirit in there somewhere. Votes: 0

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, Votes: 0

. . . 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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The fanatic is not really a stickler to principle. He embraces a cause not primarily because of its justness or holiness but because of his desperate need for something to hold onto. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'm not the kind of person that would step on people just to get where I wanted to be, but I have crossed moral boundaries when I've either been afraid or desperate. Votes: 0

If one is desperate for love, I suggest looking at one's friends and family and see if love is all around. If not, get a new set of friends, a new family. Votes: 0

Now a movie goes out to two, three thousand theaters and by Friday night at 10 o'clock they know if you are in or out. That desperate competition is, I think, horrendous. It's awful. Votes: 0

There is now a desperate need for a London-wide left caucus of those interested in the GLC and local councils so that we can compare and discuss what is happening in each borough. Votes: 0

I stole a significant amount of money from a family member. I knew I was going to get caught, but I was so desperate I didn't care. It was a cry for help Votes: 0

All I want to say is that when you stop being delusional and start feeling desperate because you're too inept to figure this out on your own, you know who to come to. Votes: 0

Britain is producing some of the worst films in the world. Our film industry is desperate to be part of America, and we just churn out flaccid imitations of bad films over there. Votes: 0

The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was, in the throes of unremitting suffering. I should turn to God Votes: 0

I think mortality makes you live a fuller existence. When I was a kid I was scared of death, and maybe that's what made me desperate to get the most out of life. Votes: 0

Why can I never go back to bed? Who's is the voice ringing in my head? Where is the sense in these desperate dreams? Why should I wake when I'm half past dead? Votes: 0

There's a stage where you're desperate to get a job, and you're waving your hands in a sea of nothingness, going, 'Please, please, please! I'm over here - give me a job!' Votes: 0

I stole a significant amount of money from a family member. I knew I was going to get caught, but I was so desperate I didn't care. It was a cry for help. Votes: 0

She was desperate and she was choosey at the same time and, in a way, beautiful, but she didn't have quite enough going for her to become what she imagined herself to be. Votes: 0

Dear Skeezie, Today I ran after a boy as he was trying to get away. I tackled him and we both landed in the mud. Do you think I appeared desperate?-Joe Bunch Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Our family has gone through a very difficult time. My husband and I have taken the brunt of it. I've never known what it truly felt like to be so sad and desperate inside. Votes: 0

Humanity, in the desperate attempt to fit 8 billion or more people on the planet and give them a higher standard of living, is at risk of pushing the rest of life off the globe. Votes: 0

I feel like what I have become is halfway between my mother and my father, violent and impulsive and desperate and afraid. I feel like I have lost control of what I have become. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I remember feeling guilty that I had a good childhood. I thought everybody who is famous has to have a desperate childhood and work his way out of it, but I had a great one. Votes: 0

My dad grew up in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, desperate to get to London. I grew up in London, so I don't know what it's like to yearn for the big city from a small town. Votes: 0

I hope this will help new moms not feel alone or desperate, and that there is no shame in their feelings. PPD is out of their control, but the treatment and healing process is not. Votes: 0

I hate gold. It does not pay a dividend, it has no value, and you can't work out what it should or shouldn't be worth," he said. "It is the last refuge of the desperate. Votes: 0

Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I read at the age of 7 or 8 years and which drove me to desperate attempts at imitation. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When one is engaged in a desperate defense of one's world and its values, nothing can be given away, any breach in the walls might be fatal, every point must be defended to the death. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0