Quotes of: Desperate Keyword

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

Elizabeth Gilbert

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

Jesse Jackson

Sweeney Todd: [with a smile] These are desperate times, Mrs. Lovett and desperate measures are called for...

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

He who is desperate will squeeze oil out of a grain of sand.

Japanese

Desperation will drive you to do things you know will never make you whole again and even to lose the very thing you’re desperate for.

My Butterfly

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

The Waves of Life Quotes and Daily Meditations

Because of total depravity, you and I were desperate for God's grace before we were saved. Because of total depravity, you and I remain desperate for God's grace even after we're saved.

Tullian Tchividjian

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.

Henry David Thoreau

Wasn't growing catnip in one's yard the kitty equivalent of giving candy to children?

Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology

The journey towards success is more like a traveller lost in a desert, desperate to find an oasis, desperate to quench his thirst. But it is not about how grave the thirst is but about how long he chooses to walk thirsty.

Chirag Tulsiani

I've sometimes thought that it's only by recalling that desperate devotion my kids once felt for me that I can maintain my own desperate devotion in the face of their adolescent sneering.

Ayelet Waldman

Watching him walk off was very nearly as absorbing as observing his approach. He walked as all men ought to walk, with a decided swagger to his shoulders.

A Desperate Fortune

I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me

The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

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.

Anne Lamott

If blue helmeted UN peacekeepers show up in your town or village and offer to protect you, run.

Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures): True Stories from a War Zone

But she stopped herself. That wouldn't make it right. You didn't forgive because it was the only choice you thought you had. That didn't make it forgiveness, that made it desperation. She'd always been too desperate about Jake. Always.

The Sugar Queen

I drink much less than most people think, and I think much more than most people would believe.

Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

Manifesting your desires requires an understanding of the universe’s abundance and inherently giving nature. If you ask from a position of fear or desperation, you are sending out your fear and desperation, and the universe, giving, reflecting, and...

Stephen Richards

I think that the roots of racism have always been economic, and I think people are desperate and scared. And when you're desperate and scared you scapegoat people. It exacerbates latent tendencies toward - well, toward racism or homophobia or anti-Se...

Henry Louis Gates

While the other women turned back to their talk of Saint-Germain, she took the opportunity to curl into her chair again and read, and so remove herself from all her greater cares and all the people causing them.

A Desperate Fortune

Israelis are a mix of North African, Levantine, and Eastern European, which inflames the politics but does amazing things for the women.

Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures): True Stories from a War Zone