Desperate Quotes - Page 24

• Black is now in desperate need of a good idea. Or, to put it standard chess notation, +-

  Mark Dvoretsky

  Ideas, Black, Needs

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• Desperate courage makes One a majority.

  Andrew Jackson

  Courage, Majority, Majority And Minority

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• Millions of our fellow human beings continue to live as contemporary slaves, victims of abominable practices like human trafficking, forced labour and sexual exploitation. Countless children are forced to become soldiers, work in sweat shops or are sold by desperate families. Women are brutalized and traded like commodities. Entire households and villages labour under debt bondage.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Children, Practice, Sweat

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• Our idea of what constitutes social good has advanced with the procession of the ages, from those desperate times when just to keep body and soul together was an achievement, to the great present when "good" includes an agreeable, stable civilization accessible to all, the opportunity of each to develop his particular genius and the privilege of mutual usefulness.

  Frances Perkins

  Opportunity, Civilization, Ideas

  Frances Perkins (1934). “People at work”

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• Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell, And poppy, or charms, can make us sleep as well, And better than thy stroke. Why swell'st thou then?

  John Donne

  Art, Kings, War

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.448

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• From Toscanini I learnt the essential and desperate seriousness of making music.

  Georg Solti

  Essentials, Seriousness

  "Conductors on Record". Book by John L. Holmes, pp. 256-261, 1988.

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• Amazingly, we take for granted that instinct for survival, fear of death, must separate us from the happiness of pure and uninterpreted experience, in which body, mind, and nature are the same. This retreat from wonder, the backing away like lobsters into safe crannies, the desperate instinct that our life passes unlived, is reflected in proliferation without joy, corrosive money rot, the gross befouling of the earth and air and water from which we came.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Air, Water, Joy

  Peter Matthiessen (2008). “The Snow Leopard”, p.68, Penguin

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• The sensuality of desperate lives. Only poets talk like that. But poetry has never had an answer for anything. All it does it bear witness. To despair. And desperate lives.

  Jean-Claude Izzo

  Despair, Doe, Answers

  Jean-Claude Izzo (2016). “Total Chaos”, p.117, Penguin

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• 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.

  Lauren Beukes

  Order, Trying, Patterns

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• I yearn to live and love and burn, and yet so much of my time is spent faking and forgetting, faking and forgetting I carry out my disbelief with uninspired hands, my eyes shut, my emotions dulled, my spirit numb. In times like these I am in desperate need of truth to come to me like a blinding light, like a splinter in my soul, reminding me of the brevity of my time here on earth.

  Jon Foreman

  Eye, Light, Times Like These

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• Marriage is a desperate thing.

  John Selden

  Broken Heart, Heart, Broken

  John Selden (1856). “The table-talk of John Selden, with a biogr. preface and notes by S.W. Singer”, p.90

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• It might pay to be resilient, if this was all being vulnerable and skinless got you. People didn’t stop and cluck over damage done unless you made it worth their while. Indeed, maybe it was time to rethink this whole salvation business. Or maybe I was less desperate, less teetering on the edge than I cared to admit. Now, that was a refreshing possibility.

  Daphne Merkin

  People, Done, Might

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• Remember Killer Moth, the most ingenuous rogue ever to defy the dynamic duo, Batman and Robin ?Perhaps you recall how the weird beam from the Moth Signal summoned the Gangland Guardian to the aid of desperate criminals ?And who can forget the eerie Moth Cave where new and startling implements of crime were produced by this evil genius !

  Bob Kane

  Eerie, Evil, Criminals

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• I hate women like that. They're so desperate for the attention of men that they'd willingly betray and harm members of their own sex

  Sarah J. Maas

  Sex, Hate, Men

  Sarah J. Maas (2012). “The Assassin and the Empire: A Throne of Glass Novella”, p.75, A&C Black

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• Anyone who is desperate or alone will agree there is comfort in routine.

  Simon Van Booy

  Comfort, Routine, Agree

  Simon van Booy (2013). “The Illusion of Separateness”, p.109, Oneworld Publications

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• Besides, I’m not looking to get saved. I’m only going with her because it’s what you do when you’re in a relationship. You know? You slide into the third pew from the front and sit there thinking about how desperate all these people are to feel like something loves them. They’ll believe all kinds of hocus-pocus. But your girlfriend likes it, and you like her, so you do it. It’s called compromise. The only way you’re going to get something to last in this world is to work at it.

  Tim Tharp

  Girlfriend, Believe, Thinking

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• If humanity is to survive, happiness and inner balance are crucial. Otherwise the lives of our children and their children are more likely to be unhappy, desperate and short. Material development certainly contributes to happiness - to some extent - and a comfortable way of life. But this is not sufficient. To achieve a deeper level of happiness we cannot neglect our inner development.

  Dalai Lama

  Children, Humanity, Unhappy

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• The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to create order out of the desperate confusion of our time.

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  Order, Goal, Confusion

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• I can’t count the times I have lagged seemingly hopelessly far behind, and nobody except myself thinks I can win. But I have pulled myself in from desperate [situations]. When you are behind there are two strategies - counter-attack or all men to the defences. I’m good at finding the right balance between those.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Men, Thinking, Winning

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• We are all, in the private kingdom of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend. Someone who isn’t embarrassed by our emotions, or her own, who recognizes that life is short and all that we have to offer, in the end, is love.

  Steve Almond

  Wise, True Friend, Heart

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• I will go through a lot of pain to beat someone. If there's pride and ego on the line, if I'm desperate, then I'm willing to go to a place where it hurts a lot more.

  Shalane Flanagan

  Hurt, Pain, Pride

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• My father could talk about the Romany way of life and its culture. He could talk about freedom and the Scottish spirit. But that was all he could talk about. I was desperate for someone to talk to but there was just nobody there.

  Sara Sheridan

  Father, Culture, Way

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• As boys without bonds to their fathers grow older and more desperate about their masculinity, they are in danger of forming gangs in which they strut their masculinity for one another, often overdo it, and sometimes turn to displays of fierce, macho bravado and even violence.

  Frank Pittman

  Father, Boys, Violence

  "Man Enough: Fathers, Sons, and the Search for Masculinity". Book by Frank Pittman (Chapter 5), 1993.

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• I might be needy, competitive and desperate but it's far better than being wet.

  Jenny Eclair

  Might, Needy, Wet

  "My family values" by Jo Mears, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2009.

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• The song is based on a lot of observation and a lot of speculation. But in sort of a pointed way its kind of about Madonna...I think it was a particular time where I was being bombarded with her image on TV and in magazines and her whole schtick kind of speaks to me in that way...like she's going through some sort of problem. It seems she's getting a bit desperate.

  Mike Patton

  Song, Thinking, Magazines

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