Desperate Quotes - Page 26

• Deep inside, I am desperate to do comedy.

  David Suchet

  Comedy, Deep Inside

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was just the youngest in the family, and most in desperate need of attention.

  Caroline Rhea

  Needs, Attention

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• In desperate position, you must fight.

  Sun Tzu

  Fighting, Position

  Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.19, Lulu.com

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• We know that uncertainty creates anxiety and sometimes desperate attempts to find something to believe in. Uncertainty engenders real opportunity as well as misleading choices, great leaders as well as false messiahs, and new ways of understanding the world alongside hollow maxims and deceptive promises. Understandably, we seek guides and guideposts to ease the anxiety of the journey. But we also need to depend on our own insights and imagination to cultivate, from our own experience, a way to move forward.

  Alan Briskin

  Real, Moving Forward, Believe

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• In many situations that seemed desperate, the artillery has been a most vital factor.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Military, Situation, Artillery

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• We have a desperate need for producers in the [commercial Broadway] theatre, and it is very hard for them to get money and find investors for new plays.

  Arthur Laurents

  Broadway Theatre, Play, Needs

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• He found that he had this sudden desperate longing for the fuming, smoky streets of Ankh-Morpork, which was always at its best in the spring, when the gummy sheen on the turbid waters of the Ankh River had a special iridescence and the eaves were full of birdsong, or at least birds coughing rhythmically

  Terry Pratchett

  Spring, Rivers, Water

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “The Light Fantastic: (Discworld Novel 2)”, p.91, Random House

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• Men and women in all parts of the world have a desperate need to take time from their demanding routines of everyday life and to quietly observe God's miracles taking place all around them. Think of what would happen if all of us took time to look carefully at the wonders of nature that surround us and devoted ourselves to learning more about this world that God created for us!

  M. Russell Ballard

  Nature, Men, Thinking

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• I'd be smiling if I wasn't so desperate. I'd be patient if I had the time.

  Emeli Sande

  Patient, Be Patient, Ifs

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• So with 'There Will Be Blood,' I didn't even really feel like I was adapting a book. I was just desperate to find stuff to write.

  Paul Thomas Anderson

  Book, Writing, Blood

  Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. January 2, 2008.

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• Suicide is a desperate attempt to get out of what seems to be an intolerable situation. It appears to be a way of escape from the pain of living.

  June Hunt

  Suicide, Pain, Way

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• As a film-maker and a poet, I feel it's my duty to be an eye and an antenna to what's happening around me. I always felt a solidarity with those who are desperate and confused and misused and are seeking a way out of it.

  Jonas Mekas

  Confused, Eye, Way

  "iPOP | This Week on the Scene: NYFF, Wall Street, “Dirty Girl” & More" by Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. October 7, 2011.

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• The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients are forced to seek medication on the black market.

  Pauline Hanson

  Drug, Black, Experts

  "Revisit Pauline Hanson's infamous maiden speech". www.sbs.com.au. July 19, 2016.

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• Each one of us can do a good deed, every day and everywhere. In hospitals in desperate need of volunteers, in homes for the elderly where our parents and grandparents are longing for a smile, a listening ear, in the street, in our workplaces and especially at home.

  Shari Arison

  Home, Elderly, Listening Ear

  "Coming to Do Good" by Shari Arison, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 30, 2011.

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• 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.

  Rahul Gandhi

  Affliction, Levels, May

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• There is a new codeword going round school. DFS. It means 'desperate for sex.' It sounds like you are talking about the furniture shop. For the record, I'm certainly DFS. In fact I am permanently shopping in DFS with no hope of getting out of the store.

  Rae Earl

  Sex, School, Mean

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• We are in need of a way out of our poverty of soul and the desperate state of our human condition. We find it in this child lying in a manger, who was and is Jesus Christ, the long-promised Messiah, Seed, Redeemer, and King.

  Stephen Nichols

  Jesus, Kings, Children

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• Prayer does two things. It shows the complete sufficiency of God and the complete helplessness of man. It shows that God is not lacking, that He is in need of no thing, that He is infinitely and gloriously wealthy, that He can give to, He can bless and He can answer without the need of help from anyone or anything else. And it also shows that we are in desperate need of that kind of sufficiency.

  Matt Chandler

  Prayer, Men, Two

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• We are reviled but we do not intend to speak evil in return. We are in desperate straits but do not despair. We are persecuted but not forsaken. It’s easy to humiliate and crush people who are open, but when I am weak, then I am strong.

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

  Crush, Strong, People

  "Here's What Russian Punk Band Pussy Riot Said At The Conclusion Of Their Controversial Blasphemy Trial". Nadezhda Tolokonnikova's closing speech at the Pussy Riot trial in Russia, www.businessinsider.com. August 10, 2012.

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• The people at the Café Lehmitz had a presence and a sincerity that I myself lacked. It was okay to be desperate, to be tender, to sit all alone or share the company of others. There was a great warmth and tolerance in this destitute setting.

  Anders Petersen

  People, Tolerance, Sincerity

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• A Church worshipping as a Creature of the Word doesn't show up to perform or be entertained; she comes desperate and needy, thirsty for grace, receiving from The Lord and the body of Christ, and then gratefully receiving what she needs as she offers her praise- the only proper response to the God who saves us.

  Matt Chandler

  Grace, Church, Body Of Christ

  Matt Chandler, Eric Geiger, Josh Patterson (2012). “Creature of the Word: The Jesus-Centered Church”, p.42, B&H Publishing Group

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• If you're going to run for president as the anti-Clinton, you should know that Democrats and their media friends will do whatever it takes to make you look Clintonian... The questions won't go away because Democrats are desperate to define Republican deviancy down to Clinton levels. The ugliness is just getting started.

  Paul Gigot

  Running, Media, Going Away

  "Snow Job: Bush Tries Not to Inhale". www.wsj.com. August 20, 1999.

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• Are you desperate or determined? With desperation comes frustration. With determination comes purpose, achievement, and peace.

  James A. Murphy III

  Determination, Frustration, Achievement

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• Necessity urges desperate measures.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Desperate Measures, Urges

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1866). “Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.128

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• Diseases desperate grown By desperate appliances are relieved, Or not at all.

  William Shakespeare

  Disease, Cures, Relieved

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 2, l. 9

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