Desperate Quotes - Page 29

• War is very uncertain in its results, and often when affairs look most desperate they suddenly assume a more hopeful state.

  George Meade

  War, Hopeful, Looks

  "The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade". Book by George Meade, 1913.

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• I'm often amazed at the way politicians, who spend hours poring over opinion poll results in a desperate attempt to discover what the public thinks, are certain they know precisely what God's views are on everything.

  Simon Hoggart

  Thinking, Views, Way

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• Every day is a little life, and our whole life is but a day repeated. Therefore live every day as if it would be the last. Those that dare lose a day, are dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it are desperate.

  Joseph Hall

  Littles, Lasts, Would Be

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• Can you imagine a silence so desperate
  to be heard?

  Richard Jackson

  Silence, Imagine, Heard

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• That was how a Salomon bond trader thought: He forgot whatever it was that he wanted to do for a minute and put his finger on the pulse of the market. If the market felt fidgety, if people were scared or desperate, he herded them like sheep into a corner, then made them pay for their uncertainty. He sat on the market until it puked gold coins. Then he worried about what he wanted to do.

  Michael Lewis

  Sheep, People, Gold

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• At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances of disappointed love or the jealousy of adulterous deceptions, he had said not a word of these childish maladies, but had sounded those more incurable, more poignant and more profound: wounds that are inflicted by satiety, disillusion and contempt in ruined souls tortured by the present, disgusted with the past, terrified and desperate of the future.

  Joris-Karl Huysmans

  Grief, Past, Profound

  Joris-Karl Huysmans (2015). “Against the Grain: (À rebours)”, p.111, BoD – Books on Demand

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• There is nobody more terrible than the desperate.

  Alexander Suvorov

  Terrible

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• America, the great liberator, is in desperate need of being liberated from itself - from its own excesses and arrogance. And the world needs to be liberated from American values and culture, spreading across the planet as if by divine providence.

  Kalle Lasn

  America, Arrogance, Needs

  "Culture Jam: How To Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge - And Why We Must". Book by Kalle Lasn, 1999.

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• We need Jesus like we need oxygen. Like we need water. Like the branch needs the vine. Jesus is not merely a figure for devotions. He is the missing essence of your existence. Whether we know it or not, we are desperate for Jesus.

  John Eldred

  Jesus, Oxygen, Essence

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• One of the most intuitive nature writers of our recently past century, Peter Matthiessen, lends a poets voice to the desperate effort to save the tiger.

  Ron Franscell

  Past, Voice, Effort

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• Earth, is not this what you will: in us to rise up invisible? Is it, O Earth, not your dream once to be wholly invisible? Earth! Invisible! What, if not change, is your desperate mission?

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Dream, What If, Earth

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• Confusion is a gift from God. Those times when you feel most desperate for a solution, sit. Wait. The information will become clear. The confusion is there to guide you. Seek detachment and become the producer of your life.

  RZA

  Inspirational, Life, Christian

  The RZA (2009). “The Tao of Wu”, p.77, Penguin

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• A nation that turns away from prayer will ultimately find itself in desperate need of it.

  Jonathan Cahn

  Prayer, Needs, Turns

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• Desperate times call for desperate analogies.

  John Diamond

  Desperate Times Call For Desperate Measures, Analogies, Desperate Times

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• I used to believe that love and happiness were synonymous. I was a fool. Love intensifies all emotions. Nothing is so painful o so sweet, so thrilling or so desperate... Pleasure is, after all, a luxury. It's love thats essential. You are never so alive as when you love, never so alert, intuitive, attentive, never so smart or so compassionate.

  John Dufresne

  Sweet, Smart, Believe

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• Our need is so desperate an idea, a thing, a law can't help us. It took one thing, the gift of gifts, God in the flesh, to rescue us.

  Paul David Tripp

  Law, Ideas, Needs

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• Creators understand that their emotions are not necessarily a sign of the circumstances. They understand that in desperate circumstances they may experience joy, and in jubilant circumstances they may feel regret. They know that any emotion will change. But because emotions are not the centerpiece of their lives, they do not pander to them. They create what they create, not in reaction to their emotions but independent of them. On days filled with the depths of despair, they can create. On days filled with the heights of joy, they can create.

  Robert Fritz

  Regret, Independent, Joy

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• If you don't have anything useful to say then you attack people. If you feel that your house of cards has been discovered and is starting to come unraveled, you become very desperate. Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names. That's what you can find on a third grade playground.

  Benjamin Carson

  Intelligent, House Of Cards, Names

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• Self-mutilation is a frightening barrier that keeps us from seeing a person who is lost, in pain, and in desperate need of help.

  Steven Levenkron

  Pain, Self, Needs

  Steven Levenkron (1999). “Cutting: Understanding and Overcoming Self-Mutilation”, p.19, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth.

  Sydney Schanberg

  Believe, Government, Forever

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• He sees such a desperate rapaciousness prevail; such a disregard to equity, such contempt of order, such stupid blindness to future consequences, as must immediately have the most tragical conclusion, and most terminate in destruction to the greater number, and in a total dissolution of society to the rest.

  David Hume

  Stupid, Order, Numbers

  David Hume (2013). “An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• . . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of the future, it overlooks the plain truth of the moment.

  Laozi

  Truth, Past, Ideas

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• Here we are at the edge of the world, the very edge of Western civilization, and all of us are so desperate to feel something, anything, that we keep falling into each other and f*****g our way toward the end of days.

  M.I.A.

  Fall, America, Civilization

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• Desperate times breed desperate measures

  William Shakespeare

  Desperate Measures, Problem, Desperate Times

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• Those that dare lose a day, ate dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, are desperate.

  Joseph Hall

  Laziness, Dare, Loses

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