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• Which of my feelings are real? Which of the me's is me? The wild, impulsive, chaotic, energetic, and crazy one? Or the shy, withdrawn, desperate, suicidal, doomed, and tired one? Probably a bit of both, hopefully much that is neither.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Crazy, Real, Tired

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.45, Pan Macmillan

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• Generally, the shaking is consciously felt in its positive aspects — as the wonderful new heaven and earth which love with its miracle and mystery has suddenly produced. Love is the answer, we sing. Our Western culture seems to be engaged in a romantic - albeit desperate - conspiracy to enforce the illusion that that is all there is to eros.

  Rollo May

  Life, Falling In Love, Love Is

  "Love & Will".

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• Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens
  Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel
  It runs a headlong course to desperate madness.

  John Ford

  Life, Running, Heart

  John Ford (1831). “The Dramatic Works of John Ford: The lover's melancholy. The broken heart. Perkin Warbeck”, p.63

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• Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes.

  George Santayana

  Men, Religion, Atheism

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.450, Indiana University Press

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• When I think about it like that, it feels like a burden. But that won't mean I'll be single for the rest of my life - I hope. I feel very settled with myself in my world. I don't feel as needy and desperate to prove things about myself. In my twenties I was very keen to achieve this and disprove this and that. Now I enjoy just being able to concentrate on my children and my work and myself.

  Jude Law

  Single, Children, Mean

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• We must not only control the weapons that can kill us, we must bridge the great disparities of wealth and opportunity among the peoples of the world, the vast majority of whom live in poverty without hope, opportunity or choices in life. These conditions are a breeding ground for division that can cause a desperate people to resort to nuclear weapons as a last resort. Our only hope lies in the power of our love, generosity, tolerance and understanding and our commitment to making the world a better place.

  Muhammad Ali

  Lying, Commitment, Opportunity

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• When food becomes scarce, refugees often turn to desperate measures to feed themselves and their families. We are particularly worried about the health of the refugee population, domestic violence and refugees resorting to illegal employment or even to prostitution, just to put enough food on the table.

  Antonio Guterres

  Desperate Measures, Worry, Domestic Violence

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• Abortion is not a sign that women are free, but a sign that they are desperate.

  Frederica Mathewes-Green

  Abortion

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• Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts.

  Anne Lamott

  Heart, Compassion, Self

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• The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Suicidal, People, Effort

  The Defendant introduction (1901)

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• It explains why people come home from work or school and immediately switch on the television. They are not interested in the program much of the time, they do not even know what is on. But they are desperate for the sound of another human voice in their lives

  Harold S. Kushner

  Home, School, Voice

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• Desperate affairs require desperate remedies.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Affair, Remedy

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• Science unfolded her treasures and her secrets to the desperate demands of men, and placed in their hands agencies and apparatus almost decisive in their character. Reflecting on the outcome of World War I, and an ominous future.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Character, Science

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• It always seems to me when the anti-suffrage members of the Government criticise militancy in women that it is very like beasts of prey reproaching the gentler animals who turn in desperate resistance when at the point of death.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Animal, Government, Justice

  "My Own Story: Top Biography".

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• It's tough, it's not the scenario that we wanted for sure. I thought our desperation was there, we worked hard, but it was one game, a lot can happen, they're a good team, and unfortunately we didn't win. We had some bad bounces, and in one game those make a big difference, and unfortunately it didn't go our way. But if we play hard like that, we play desperate like that and control the puck the way we did down low, I like our chances against any team.

  Sidney Crosby

  Team, Hockey, Winning

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• In desperate hope I go and search for her in all the corners of my house. I find her not. My house is small and what once has gone from it can never be regained. But infinite is thy mansion, my lord, and seeking her I have come to thy door.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Grieving, Doors, House

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.44, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• To live in poverty is to live with constant uncertainty, to accept galling indignities, and to expect harassment by the police, welfare officials and employers, as well as by others who are poor and desperate.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Expectations, Police, Poverty

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1989). “FEAR OF FALLING”, Pantheon

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• No scheme for a change of society can be made to appear immediately palatable, except by falsehood, until society has become so desperate that it will accept any change.

  T. S. Eliot

  Class, Accepting, Made

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Idea of a Christian Society”, p.29, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You see all these things that make you feel desperate or sad, but you realize changes can be made, and it doesn't take a lot of money on our part to make a change in people's lives.

  John Legend

  Sadness, People, Realizing

  "John Legend Shows How Easy Charity Can Be With Poverty Action Tour". Interview with Jayson Rodriguez, www.mtv.com. January 29, 2008.

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• My love is as a fever, longing still
  For that which longer nurseth the disease,
  Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill,
  Th' uncertain sickly appetite to please.
  My reason, the physician to my love,
  Angry that his prescriptions are not kept,
  Hath left me, and I desperate now approve
  Desire is death, which physic did except.

  William Shakespeare

  Famous Love, Love Is, Desire

  1609 Sonnets, sonnet 147.

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• Though my natural instinct is to wish for a life free from pain, trouble, and adversity, I am learning to welcome anything that makes me conscious of my need for Him. If prayer is birthed out of desperation, then anything that makes me desperate for God is a blessing.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Pain, Prayer, Women

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss (2012). “The Quiet Place: Daily Devotional Readings”, p.80, Moody Publishers

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• O God, make us desperate, and grant us faith and boldness to approach Your throne and make our petitions known, knowing that in doing we link arms with Omnipotence and become instruments of Your eternal purposes being fulfilled on this earth.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Prayer, Omnipotence, Knowing

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss (2009). “A Place of Quiet Rest: Finding Intimacy with God Through a Daily Devotional Life”, p.246, Moody Publishers

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• When test scores go up, we should worry, because of how poor a measure they are of what matters, and what you typically sacrifice in a desperate effort to raise scores.

  Alfie Kohn

  School, Sacrifice, What Matters

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• We will suffer a sharp painful disullisionment before we fully surrender. When people really see themselves as the Lord sees them, it is not the terribly offensive sins of the fleshthat shock them, but the awful nature of the pride of their own hearts opposing Jesus Christ. When they see themselves in the light of the Lord, the shame, the horror, and desperate conviction hit home for them.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Home, Heart

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• We would be deceiving both ourselves and the people if we concealed from the masses the necessity of a desperate, bloody war of extermination, as the immediate task of the coming revolutionary action.

  Vladimir Lenin

  War, Communication, People

  "Lessons of the Moscow Uprising". Proletary, No. 2, August 29, 1906. Collected Works, Volume 11, pp. 174, www.marxists.org.

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