Desperate Quotes - Page 28

• And then there were the wallflowers who had recognized for years that the thing was hopeless, who had found in that information a kind of calm. They no longer tried, with a bright and desperate effort, to sustain a conversation with somebody's brother, somebody's usher, somebody's roommate, somebody's roommate's usher's brother... The category of wallflower who had given up on all this was very quiet, not indifferent, only quiet. And she always brought a book.

  Renata Adler

  Brother, Book, Years

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• It was the price of survival. The cost of his people's last, desperate gamble: To rid his new home of humanity, he had to become human. And being human, he had to overcome his humanity.

  Rick Yancey

  Home, People, Humanity

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.134, Penguin

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• He was still dazed, and though she hated to admit it, he was actually rather attractive. If a girl happened to like that square-jaw, bright-blue-eyes, devilish-dimples kind of thing. Although he was in desperate need of a haircut and a good shave.

  Marissa Meyer

  Girl, Eye, Squares

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• Cleverness is like rouge - liberal application makes a woman look common and desperate. Wit is knowing how to apply it.

  Tessa Dare

  Knowing, Looks, Common

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• You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make real or imagined events come alive. But you cannot will this to happen. It is a matter of persistence and faith and hard work. So you might as well just go ahead and get started.

  Anne Lamott

  Real, Hard Work, Persistence

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• Humanity, in the desperate attempt to fit 8 billion or more people on the planet and give them a higher standard of living, is at risk of pushing the rest of life off the globe.

  E. O. Wilson

  Rest Of Life, People, Giving

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• For a female to write about her feelings, and then be portrayed as some clingy, insane, desperate girlfriend in need of making you marry her and have kids with her, I think that's taking something that potentially should be celebrated - a woman writing about her feelings in a confessional way - that's taking it and turning it and twisting it into something that is frankly a little sexist.

  Taylor Swift

  Girlfriend, Kids, Writing

  "Cover Preview: Taylor Swift Fights Back About Her Love Life, the Hyannis Port House—and Has Words for Tina Fey and Amy Poehler". www.vanityfair.com. March 5, 2013.

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• New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign.

  Alec Baldwin

  New York, Cities, Stupidity

  ABFoundation @ABFalecbaldwin, twitter.com. May 13, 2014.

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• Well, birthdays are merely symbolic of how another year has gone by and how little we've grown. No matter how desperate we are that someday a better self will emerge, with each flicker of the candles on the cake, we know it's not to be, that for the rest of our sad, wretched pathetic lives, this is who we are to the bitter end. Inevitably, irrevocably; happy birthday? No such thing.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Birthday, Self, Years

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• A warrior accepts defeat. He does not treat it as a matter of indifference, nor does he attempt to transform it into a victory. The pain of defeat is bitter to him; he suffers at indifference and becomes desperate with loneliness. After all this has passed, he licks his wounds and begins everything anew. A warrior knows that war is made of many battles: he goes on

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Pain, Loneliness

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• If we are desperate, though , if we have nothing to lose, or if we are full of enthusiasm for life, then the unknown reveals itself, and our universe changes direction.

  Paulo Coelho

  Enthusiasm For Life, Nothing To Lose, Ifs

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• I thought I had been a suffragist before I became a Poor Law Guardian, but now I began to think about the vote in women's hands not only as a right but as a desperate necessity.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Thinking, Hands, Law

  Emmeline Pankhurst (2015). “My Own Story: Top Biography”, p.17, 谷月社

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• Pritkin kissed like he did everything else, straightforward, accepting no prisoners and with an intensity that left me breathless. It was hot and hard and desperate, like he was starving for it, and I opened my mouth and took it, because, God.

  Karen Chance

  Hot, Mouths, Accepting

  Karen Chance (2011). “Cassie Palmer Novels 1-5”, p.863, Penguin

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• M. J. Putney has created true magic with this book, the kind that comes when you curl up in a comfortable armchair and let the story take your imagination away. Come visit an enchanted eighteenth-century England and meet two desperate lovers caught in the web of a sinister lord with great magical power. Romantic and lyrical, this tale will fill your reading time with pleasure. I loved it.

  Catherine Asaro

  Book, Reading, Two

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• The self-assured strength that grows from knowing that we already have what we need makes us gentle, because we are no longer desperate.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Self, Knowing, Needs

  Sakyong Mipham (2005). “Ruling Your World: Ancient Strategies For Modern Life”, p.84, Harmony

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• The soul seeks God with its whole being. Because it is desperate to be whole, the soul is God-smitten and God-crazy and God-obsessed. My mind may be obsessed with idols; my will may be enslaved to habits; my body may be consumed with appetites. But my soul will never find rest until it rests in God.

  John Ortberg

  Crazy, Idols, Soul

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• Fact is, the desperate desire to be cool has skewed our culture toward nihilism, carelessness, and ineptitude. It is now cool to be an idiot. A jackass. It's cool to be a failure, as long as your failure is the basis for a reality show.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Reality, Long, Nihilism

  Greg Gutfeld (2014). “Not Cool: The Hipster Elite and Their War on You”, p.24, Crown Forum

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• I have always been accused of taking the things I love – football, of course, but also books and records – much too seriously, and I do feel a kind of anger when I hear a bad record, or when someone is lukewarm about a book that means a lot to me. Perhaps it was these desperate, bitter men in the West Stand at Arsenal who taught me how to get angry in this way; and perhaps it is why I earn some of my living as a critic – maybe it’s those voices I can hear when I write. ‘You’re a WANKER, X.’ ‘The Booker Prize? THE BOOKER PRIZE? They should give that to me for having to read you.

  Nick Hornby

  Football, Book, Writing

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• A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail.

  Ben Marcus

  Language, Failing, Aids

  Ben Marcus (2007). “Notable American Women: A Novel”, p.54, Vintage

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• The world of strict naturalism in which clever mathematical laws all by themselves bring the universe and life into existence, is pure [science] fiction. Theories and laws do not bring matter/energy into existence. The view that they nevertheless somehow have the capacity seems a rather desperate refuge...from the alternative possibility...Trying to avoid the clear evidence for the existence of a divine intelligence behind nature, atheist scientists are forced to ascribe creative powers to less and less credible candidates like mass/energy and the laws of nature.

  John Lennox

  Atheist, Clever, Views

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• It was the upward-reaching and fathomlessly hungering, heart-breaking love for the beauty of the world at its most beautiful, and, beyond that, for that beauty east of the sun and west of the moon which is past the reach of all but our most desperate desiring and is finally the beauty of Beauty itself, of Being itself and what lies at the heart of Being.

  Frederick Buechner

  Beautiful, Lying, Heart

  Frederick Buechner (2017). “A Crazy, Holy Grace: The Healing Power of Pain and Memory”, p.24, Zondervan

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• The sun fades like the spreading
  Of a peacock's tail, as though twilight
  Might be read as a warning to those desperate
  For easy solutions.

  John Ashbery

  Inspirational, Life, Twilight

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”, Penguin Group USA

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• O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Men, Temptation

  William Shakespeare (1871). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.260

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• The people that live in my hometown do not walk along the street with smiles on their faces. It is a desperate place, but I got out.

  Natalia Vodianova

  People, Faces, Hometown

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• Desperate men do desperate things when you take hope away. And that's where the Palestinians are today.

  Chuck Hagel

  Men, Today, Palestinian

  "Chuck Hagel and Israel in context: A guide to his controversial statements". www.washingtonpost.com. August 27, 1998.

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