The desperation was coming off you in waves. You were all but begging to dance with me. I am doing you a favor.
And here's to the blues, the real blues— where there's a hint of hope in every cry of desperation.
Old love, middle love, the kind of love that knows itself and knows that nothing lasts, is a desperate shared wildness.
Heartbroken men are like wild animals, running around with hysteria in their eyes, desperately trying to knock the dents out of their egos.
It’s amazing, the lies you can tell yourself. Even more amazing, the lies you can believe when you’re desperate enough.
He realized he needed strength, sustenance that couldn’t come from bread alone. He desperately needed God.
When someone is suffering, there is a deep, visceral reaction in the core of our being, a flood of empathy and a frightfully desperate compulsion to give aid.
I felt the kind of desperation, I think, that cancels the possibility of empathy...that makes you unkind.
Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, became narcotic.
Like all who search for truth out of fear, I desperately wanted someone else to tell me exactly what to do.
'I don't need brains,' says the billionaire contemptuously. 'I'm brainy enough myself!' The broker cries out in desperation, 'What, in heaven's name, do you want?' 'Goodness,' is the answer.
There is a clear goal and it isn't to make money. The goal is to desperately try to make the best products we can. We are not naive - if you trust it, people like it, they buy it and we make money. This is a consequence.
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.
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.
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.
You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.
Because I never set out to be an actress, I always feel so lucky and grateful. There are so many people who are really desperate to be stars, and it was completely the opposite for me - I fell into it.
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.
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.
O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
I try to write about a woman finding her self-respect, valuing herself, and liking herself again. But what one desperately wants now is to write a proper novel.
