Quotes of: Desperately Keyword

My country, right or wrong,” is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, “My mother, drunk or sober.

The Defendant

Peter Wessel and Peter Van Daan have grown into one Peter, who is beloved and good, and for whom I long desperately.

The Diary of a Young Girl

Life is Too Short and Memories Are Forever!

Desperate Lands: The War on Terror Through the Eyes of a Special Forces Soldier

If a boat is shattered by a storm, the desperate passengers cling to the floating pieces of the hull. In that moment, it's not a broken boat. To a drowning man, it's a floating miracle.

Dreams of the Sleepless

She had been desperate to feel something, anything. She needed a window, because she had broken her heart throwing it at locked doors.

Falling into Place

They know these mornings well and love them desperately because they cannot last - these people who know that nothing lasts.

A Fine and Private Place

...don't you realize a flawless profile means nothing when a mere smile drives me to desperation? Don't you covet that power?..

A Familiar Rain

My heart balloons with admiration for these talented artists, which I so desperately want to be

Finding Home: A Creative Journey on a Trip Around the World

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

The Hunger Games

When I looked further into my mother's history, I realised that her anxieties and her neuroses could be accounted for by facts from a very early age. Her parents, William Henry Jones and Sarah Emily, were desperately poor.

John Rhys-Davies

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.

Jodie Foster

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

Any Duchess Will Do

(...) I do want to leave, in the desperate way that an animal wants to escape a trap. Wild and rabid. Ready to gnaw through bone.

Allegiant

True hunger was a weapon stronger than any of his abstract desires. It’s what toppled countries and made men desperate.

Among the Nameless Stars

The worst curse to befall anyone is stagnation, a banal existence, the quiet desperation that comes out of a need for conformity.

The Return of Merlin

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

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

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.

The Shining Girls

That is one of the functions of art: to present what the narrow and desperately practical perspectives of real life exclude.

On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

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

My Feudal Lord

I thought I had been a suffragist before I became a Poor Law Guardian, but now I began to think about the vote in women's hands not only as a right but as a desperate necessity.

My Own Story

But if you seek forgiveness, doesn't that automatically mean you cannot be a monster? By definition, doesn't that desperation make you human again?

The Storyteller