Quotes of: Desperation Keyword

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

Peter Storey

A hopeless man is a very desperate and dangerous man, almost a dead man.

Robert F. Kennedy

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

Keira Knightley

Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Death, he felt, was only a kind of warning rather than a desperate and permanent end.

László Krasznahorkai

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

Sarah Brownlee

My mother desperately wanted to give her kids a wholesome environment, and we were born into a traditional Catholic family.

Marco Rubio

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

Christian Nestell Bovee

Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.

Douglas Horton

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.

Laura Ingraham

Israel desperately needs peace if it is to come anywhere close to being the 'light unto nations' of Jewish dreams.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

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.

Anne Hathaway

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

Edmund Wilson

The thing that helped me come to terms with performing was an anxiety, a desperation for acceptance. There was never enough positive motivation in my life.

Phoebe Snow

Right now, the Anglo people are desperately trying to hold on to the United States, like they tried to hold on to Africa.

Edward James Olmos

I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.

Ethel Waters

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

Federico Fellini

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

Charlie Sheen

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

Jo Brand

People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation.

Jim Carrey

The agency was desperate to get started with the commercials in 1976, but I was working on Star Wars.

David Prowse