Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate. Votes: 3
Gilbert K. ChestertonFor to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live ... Votes: 3
May SartonYou may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman. Votes: 3
Lisa SeeI learnt not to be desperate in bad times, and I am learning not to be bullish when times are good. Votes: 3
John ElkannA monk's extraordinary patience can be a hindrance to desperate decision-making. Votes: 2
Harsha BhogleI might be needy, competitive and desperate but it's far better than being wet. Votes: 2
Jenny EclairI'm not desperate but I know that some day I'll be the coach again of some team. Votes: 2
Diego MaradonaFor the moment I prefer to be a beautiful woman of my age than try desperately to look 30. Votes: 2
Demi MooreI've been the type of father who tries desperately to be perfect but doesn't succeed all the time. Votes: 2
Max von SydowI so desperately wanted to be Mr. Somebody. Instead, I was the little brother, included to a point. Votes: 2
Charlie SheenAs a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories. Votes: 2
Talulah RileyWhen I was about 5 I think, I desperately wanted to be a pirate and have the hat and everything. Votes: 2
Keira KnightleyI think the whole idea of me was that I wasn't going to be but that I wanted to be, desperately. Votes: 2
Chris ElliottSomewhere between love and hate lies confusion, misunderstanding and desperate hope. Votes: 0
Shannon L. AlderMarriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about. Votes: 0
Katharine HepburnThe best evangelists, the best preachers, the best teachers are desperate people. Votes: 0
Tullian TchividjianFrom Toscanini I learnt the essential and desperate seriousness of making music. Votes: 0
Georg SoltiDiseases desperate grown By desperate appliances are relieved, Or not at all. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareGod does not answer our desperate questionings; he simply gives us himself. Votes: 0
Francois MauriacNothing is so dangerous for our security as large groups of desperate people. Votes: 0
Marianne WilliamsonDesperate, yet no longer alone after that day, because we'd found each other. Votes: 0
Suzanne CollinsMuch is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press. Votes: 0
William WeldThe desperate hope that the patient will be healed... That's the last treatment. Votes: 0
Choi Woo-shikThe interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness. Votes: 0
David Foster WallaceStar-crossed lovers desperate to get home together. Two hearts beating as one. Romance. Votes: 0
Suzanne CollinsWhen desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly. Votes: 0
Samuel JohnsonI've always said that people are desperate to find meaning in their lives. Votes: 0
Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsoodwriters are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers. Votes: 0
Charles BukowskiLogos are the bleating of the insecure, desperate for acceptance by the chronically shallow. Votes: 0
Hadley FreemanAlong with a livable wage, many parents are desperate for quality affordable child care. Votes: 0
Kirsten GillibrandAnd I suppose tapes are a desperate attempt to steal something from Death's suitcase. Votes: 0
Mitch AlbomIn many situations that seemed desperate, the artillery has been a most vital factor. Votes: 0
Douglas MacArthurMy constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised. Votes: 0
Jesse JacksonWhile I was doing 'Desperate Housewives,' I actually watched it from the beginning. Votes: 0
Daniela BobadillaBetter be a desperate single with options than a desperate married with no options. Votes: 0
Amen MufflerMiddle-class people are becoming desperate. It can cause a moral man to break bad. Votes: 0
Giancarlo Espositodespite all our desperate, eternal attempts to separate, contain and mend, categories always leak. Votes: 0
Trinh T. Minh-haThe desperate addict is closer to the heart of grace than the devout moralist. Votes: 0
Tullian TchividjianI've never met anyone who wanted to be a terrorist. They are desperate people. Votes: 0
John PerkinsThe more desperate you are to reach heaven, the deeper you descend into hell. Votes: 0
Sarah BrownleeSocial reform is the desperate decision to remove corns from a person suffering from cancer. Votes: 0
Karl KrausThat's the funny thing about knowing you can't have something. It makes you desperate. -Leah Votes: 0
Stephenie MeyerBusiness practices and how we treat the planet are also in desperate need of re-humanization. Votes: 0
Simon MainwaringFor people who are desperate and searching, sexuality on the Internet offers an incredible release. Votes: 0
Volkmar SiguschIn tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up. Votes: 0
Jesse JacksonTo annihilate the world by annihilation of oneself is the deluded height of desperate egoism. Votes: 0
Sylvia PlathSo they were desperately in love and being desperately in love involves a desperate existence. Votes: 0
F. Scott FitzgeraldPrinting money is the last resort of desperate governments when all other policies have failed. Votes: 0
George OsborneI believe that human beings are desperate, always, to belong to something larger than themselves. Votes: 0
David WhyteWe don't have a desperate need to grow. We have a desperate desire to grow. Votes: 0
Milton FriedmanThe books weren't exactly Linnet's general reading fare, but a desperate woman will read anything. Votes: 0
Eloisa JamesThis is an industry that generates addicted gamblers and they are desperate to get money Votes: 0
John Warren KindtHave we all become so desperate to share everything that we've stopped enjoying our lives~? Votes: 0
Lucy SykesBetter be a desperate single with many options than a sad married with no option. Votes: 0
Amen MufflerI was just the youngest in the family, and most in desperate need of attention. Votes: 0
Caroline RheaBetter be a desperate single with many options than a desperate married with no option. Votes: 0
Amen MufflerThe tragedy of today is that the situation is desperate but the saints are not. Votes: 0
Vance HavnerThis is the way the world really ends: not with whimper but a desperate chuckle. Votes: 0
Martin FirrellHe died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday. Votes: 0
S. E. HintonAbortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself. Votes: 0
Adrienne RichThose that dare lose a day, ate dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, are desperate. Votes: 0
Joseph HallShe stays in the same spot, anchored by the profound, desperate loneliness of a bad relationship. Votes: 0
David LevithanAbortion is not a sign that women are free, but a sign that they are desperate. Votes: 0
Frederica Mathewes-GreenA film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people. Votes: 0
Elia KazanI'm not yet desperate enough to do anything about the conditions that are making me desperate. Votes: 0
Ashleigh BrilliantWhen one drops everything to come to aide one in desperate need of support, that's love Votes: 0
Missy RobertsonI am desperate for change - now - not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now. Votes: 0
Michelle ObamaPeople who don't make something good of what they've got are bound to end up desperate. Votes: 0
Gordon MerrickA person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader. Votes: 0
Daisaku IkedaI'm desperate to work again. I've often had those periods, but two years was the longest. Votes: 0
Charlotte GainsbourgA nation that turns away from prayer will ultimately find itself in desperate need of it. Votes: 0
Jonathan CahnLife is a process by which a few desperate longings morph into a thousand meaningless wants. Votes: 0
Robert BreaultI guess the GOP may be more desperate than I thought to call somebody like me. Votes: 0
Phil RobertsonAbout the time I told God that He didn't exist, I was desperate for an identity. Votes: 0
Donald MillerPrayer, desperate prayer, seems so simple, but it's a step rarely taken by those in family conflict. Votes: 0
Erwin W. LutzerMy taking a seat on the Council of the Fathers caused a desperate fluttering among my ghosts. Votes: 0
Mason CooleyFeeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason. Votes: 0
Alain de BottonBlack is now in desperate need of a good idea. Or, to put it standard chess notation, +- Votes: 0
Mark DvoretskyI have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power. Votes: 0
Paul RyanWe can't be so desperate for love that we forget where we can always find it; within. Votes: 0
Alexandra ElleWhen you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard. Votes: 0
Sun TzuI've worked with the greatest actors, and they're all gone. This is what's so desperate to me. Votes: 0
Angela LansburyIf you're going to make a desperate, hopeless act of defiance you should make it a good one. Votes: 0
Ann LeckieWe've poisoned our planet to a desperate degree. We have no idea of how severe the toxification is. Votes: 0
Benjamin CremeI read that book 'Fat is a Feminist Issue', got a bit desperate halfway through and ate it. Votes: 0
Jo BrandFaith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes. Votes: 0
George SantayanaA misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail. Votes: 0
Ben MarcusHe could shred me so easily. A few words, a desperate look, and I was cut wide open. Votes: 0
Sylvia DayThat if desperate times call for desperate measures, then I'm free to act as desperately as I wish. Votes: 0
Suzanne CollinsI realize how desperate it sounds for me, as a comedian, to ask you to laugh at my jokes. Votes: 0
John OliverSometimes I do 'So Desperate' solo in the middle of the set. I really love to sing that song. Votes: 0
John DarnielleIf you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback. Votes: 0
Adam MansbachI have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape. Votes: 0
Jack Henry AbbottThe Test arena is a place I have been desperate to get back to, it is the pinnacle of the sport Votes: 0
James TaylorWhen you're young and desperate to hold on to a place in the team you do whatever is asked of you. Votes: 0
Peter StoreyShe hated that she was still so desperate for a glimpse of him, but it had been this way for years. Votes: 0
Julia QuinnI consider my teenage years as being desperately unhappy. Votes: 4 Tommy Kirk
All we really want in life is to connect to other human beings, and when you desperately want to connect physically to one specific human being and you can't? That's something I find compelling. Votes: 1 Lynn Shelton
I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said 'Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.' Votes: 5 Nicole Kidman
I suppose there must be idiots who dream of signing deals with publishers while fully intending to drink martinis in cool bars or ride around on skateboards. But the actual writers I know are experts in neurotic self-torture. Every page of writing is the result of a thousand tiny decisions and desperate acts of will. Votes: 1 Helen Garner
Basically I'm a female human being with brown hair, enjoy precision, reading the news, eating delicious food with my delicious friends and laughing at ridiculous things that don't translate while you are desperately trying to make them. Votes: 1 Tig Notaro
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: 3 Sebastian Horsley
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: 3 Jasmine Guy
I'm not serving in office because I desperately needed 99 new friends in the U.S. Senate. Votes: 1 Ted Cruz
I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong. Votes: 1 Florence Welch
Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs. Votes: 1 Alton Brown
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: 5 Nathan Fillion
Sometimes I think God loves the ones who most desperately ache and are most desperately lost - his or her wildest, most messed-up children - the way you'd ache and love a screwed-up rebel daughter in juvenile hall. Votes: 1 Anne Lamott
The secret to happiness is to be working at your passion. If you want to be miserable, lead a desperate life like everybody else where they drag their asses to work everyday because they hate their job. Votes: 3 Yvon Chouinard
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: 6 Oliver Platt
Desperate affairs require desperate measures. Votes: 3 Horatio Nelson
The working classes in England were always sentimental, and the Irish and Scots and Welsh. The upper-class English are the stiff-upper-lipped ones. And the middle class. They're the ones who are crippled emotionally because they can't move up, and they're desperate not to move down. Votes: 1 Tracey Ullman
A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader. Votes: 1 Daisaku Ikeda
Sadly, far too many politicians in Washington lack the courage to do something to fix our problems. They are worried about the political implications of making the hard choices we so desperately need to cut spending and shrink government. Votes: 2 Matt Salmon
My 20s were all about feeling desperate. Desperate to find a new boyfriend. Desperate to get the perfect job. Desperate to get rid of this terrible relationship with this bad new boyfriend. Votes: 1 Jessi Klein
There are no desperate situations, there are only desperate people. Votes: 3 Heinz Guderian
That if desperate times call for desperate measures, then I'm free to act as desperately as I wish. Votes: 2 Suzanne Collins
I do like men and I had, you know, a guy in high school that I wanted to marry desperately. He's the mayor of some small town in Texas. I could be the mayor's wife right now. Votes: 1 Ellen DeGeneres
The books weren't exactly Linnet's general reading fare, but a desperate woman will read anything. Votes: 3 Eloisa James
It's still about the women. It's not called Desperate Plumber. People are more interested in cat fights. Votes: 1 James Denton