Desperate Quotes - Page 31

• Every morning
  I wake up with the news
  of bloodshed.
  I feel my body,
  desperate to know whether
  I'm still alive.

  Suman Pokhrel

  Morning, Wake Up, News

  "Every Morning". Poem by Suman Pokhrel, 2004.

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• When people get hungry and desperate, things get ugly. And I'll tell you where it's really going to get ugly: crime is going to go to levels we've never seen before.

  Gerald Celente

  People, Levels, Ugly

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• There arc no such things as desperate situations. Only desperate men.

  Adolf Hitler

  Men, Desperate Situations, Arcs

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• Once you base your whole life striving on a desperate lie, and try to implement that lie, you instrument your own undoing.

  Ernest Becker

  Lying, Trying, Strive

  Ernest Becker (1985). “Escape from Evil”, Free Press

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• A haunting, harrowing punch to the heart, Among the Missing is flat-out brilliant. About the secrets we keep, the lives we are desperate to live, and the chances we miss, it's a psychological dazzler. Truly, one of my favorite books of this year-or any year.

  Caroline Leavitt

  Book, Heart, Years

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• What is it like being single? I like it! I like starting each day with a sense of possibility. And I'm optimistic, because everyday I get a little more desperate. And desperate situations yield the quickest results.

  Michael Scott

  Being Single, Optimistic, Yield

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• The unemployment rate is now at 9.2%, which is scary, because experts say 9.5 is the point at which people are desperate enough to consider Michele Bachmann.

  Bill Maher

  People, Scary, Experts

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• Don't take our word for it. Read the Bible itself. Read the statements of preachers. And you will understand that God is the most desperate character, the worst villain in all fiction.

  E. Haldeman-Julius

  Character, Our Words, Fiction

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• Grieve only if you have committed a sin, but even in this case do not grieve too much, otherwise you may become desperate.

  Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

  Grieving, Soul, May

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• My parents are desperate, they keep saying: 'Please stop doing these angsty roles; make it easier for us.' So, yeah, I'd love to do some comedy.

  Ruth Wilson

  Parent, Roles, Saying Please

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

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• What if you lived your entire life completely without urgency? You went to classes, you ate your meals, on Saturday nights a boy you didn't love took you to the movies; now and then you actually had a conversation with someone. The rest of the time -the hours that weren't accounted for-you spent waiting for something to happen to you; when you were particularly desperate, you went out looking for it.

  Joyce Johnson

  Boys, Night, Class

  Joyce Johnson (2014). “Come and Join the Dance: A Novel”, p.11, Open Road Media

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• [If] the nature of ... government [were] a subordination of the civil to the ecclesiastical power, I [would] consider it as desperate for long years to come. Their steady habits [will] exclude the advances of information, and they [will] seem exactly where they [have always been]. And there [the] clergy will always keep them if they can. [They] will follow the bark of liberty only by the help of a tow-rope.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Years, Long

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• Turning, then, from this loathsome combination of church and state, and weeping over the follies of our fellow men, who yield themselves the willing dupes and drudges of these mountebanks, I consider reformation and redress as desperate, and abandon them to the Quixotism of more enthusiastic minds.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Yield, Mind

  Thomas Jefferson (2012). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 8: 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815: 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815”, p.212, Princeton University Press

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• Yes, testosterone-sodden young men too unattractive to get a woman in this world might be desperate enough to go for 72 private virgins in the next.

  Richard Dawkins

  Men, Atheism, World

  "Religion's misguided missiles" by Richard Dawkins, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2001.

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• Desperate times require desperate measures. What Lincoln and the Lobbyist for the Amendment and the Manager of the Amendment and himself, what they did to get this passed was not illegal. It was murky, but what they did was noble and grand. How they went about it was somewhat murky. Nothing they did was really illegal.

  Steven Spielberg

  Desperate Measures, Lobbyists, Noble

  "Steven Spielberg & Daniel Day-Lewis interview, LINCOLN". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. November 9, 2012.

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• Show me two villages, one embowered in trees and blazing with all the glories of October, the other a merely trivial and treelesswaste, or with only a single tree or two for suicides, and I shall be sure that in the latter will be found the most starved and bigoted religionists and the most desperate drinkers.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Suicide, Two, Tree

  Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.193, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Haste is needful in a desperate case.

  William Shakespeare

  Haste, Cases

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• Adolescence involves our nutty-desperate-ecstatic-rash psychological efforts to come to terms with new bodies and outrageous urges.

  Judith Viorst

  Effort, Body, Psychological

  Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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• Fathers who compete hard with their kids are monstrous. The father, for a throw-away victory, is sacrificing the very heart of hischild's sense of being good enough. He may believe he is making his son tough, as he was made tough by a similarly contending father, but he is only making his child desperate and mean like himself. Fathers must let their sons (and daughters) have their victories.

  Frank Pittman

  Daughter, Children, Father

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• ...a disgruntled reflection on my own life as a sort of desperate improvisation in which I was constantly trying to make something coherent from conflicting elements to fit rapidly changing settings.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Reflection, Trying, Elements

  Mary Catherine Bateson (2001). “Composing a Life”, p.3, Grove Press

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• You may well ask how I expect to assert my privacy by resorting to the outrageous publicity of being one's actual self on paper. There's a possibility of it working if one chooses the terms, to wit: outshouting image-gimmick America through a quietly desperate search for self.

  Kate Millett

  America, Self, Paper

  Kate Millett (2000). “Flying”, p.83, University of Illinois Press

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• I thought when I... made my first big
  mistakes in public that that was really
  going to be the end of me. My parents
  cried. My friends were desperate.

  Sharon Stone

  Mistake, Parent, Firsts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Social reform is the desperate decision to remove corns from a person suffering from cancer.

  Karl Kraus

  Cancer, Decision, Suffering

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all hope. There is no more solace for you in this world. The world lives off your rotting flesh.

  Antonin Artaud

  Soul, World, Rotting

  Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.101, Univ of California Press

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• My grandma has never been impressed with the TV show [Desperate Housewives]. She was so angry because I was on television kissing a boy naked; she's very traditional. She said: "If I ever see you kissing that boy again...".

  Eva Longoria

  Grandma, Kissing, Boys

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