Desperate Quotes - Page 34

• Until that moment she had never thought she could do it. Never thought she would be brave enough or scared enough, or desperate enough to dare.

  Neil Gaiman

  Brave, Would Be, Scared

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “Neverwhere: A Novel”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• There are some sights that, once seen, can never be unseen. They replay themselves on a loop in your mind’s home-theatre system with Dolby surround sound until you’re so desperate to be rid of them that you’ll resort to other loops simply to dislodge them for a while.

  Kevin Hearne

  Home, Sight, Surround Sound

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.810, Del Rey

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• If you want to get together in any exclusive situation and have people love you, fine - but to hang all this desperate sociology on the idea of The Cloud-Guy who has The Big Book, who knows if you've been bad or good - and CARES about any of it - to hang it all on that, folks, is the chimpanzee part of the brain working.

  Frank Zappa

  Atheist, Book, Love You

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.301, Simon and Schuster

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• Anyone desperate enough for suicide... should be desperate enough to go to creative extremes to solve problems: elope at midnight, stow away on the boat to New Zealand and start over, do what they always wanted to do but were afraid to try.

  Richard Bach

  Suicide, Suicidal, Starting Over

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• Policemen and laws can never replace customs, traditions and moral values as a means for regulating human behavior. At best, the police and criminal justice system are the last desperate line of defense for a civilized society. Our increased reliance on laws to regulate behavior is a measure of how uncivilized we’ve become.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Mean, Law, Justice

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• I came to see that what constitutes strength is not just a muscle or will. It can also include the most desperate vulnerability, the saddest heartache, the lightest, sweetest laughter.

  Brenda Shaughnessy

  Laughter, Heartache, Muscles

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• When you need to be loved, you take love wherever you can find it. When you are desperate to be loved, feel love, know love, you seek out what you think love should look like. When you find love, or what you think love is, you will lie, kill, and steal to keep it. But learning about real love comes from within. It cannot be given. It cannot be taken away. It grows from your ability to re-create within yourself, the essence of loving experiences you have had in your life.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Real, Lying, Love You

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• Like an animal caught in a trap, trying to gnaw off its own leg, a woman who seeks abortion is trying to escape a desperate situation by an act of violence and self-loss. Abortion is not a sign that women are free, but a sign that they are desperate.

  Frederica Mathewes-Green

  Loss, Animal, Desperate Situations

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• Printing money is the last resort of desperate governments when all other policies have failed.

  George Osborne

  Government, Printing Money, Lasts

  "Easy money: George Osborne lets Bank of England print £50billion more cash to stave off recession" by Graham Hiscott, www.mirror.co.uk. February 10, 2012.

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• I never let myself get desperate.

  Kim Alexis

  "Supermodel Kim Alexis: 'My son said thank you for never doing nudes'". www.foxnews.com. August 01, 2012.

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• We have on the one hand a desperate need; hunger, sickness, and the dread of war. We have, on the other, the conception of something that might meet it: omnicompetent global technocracy. Are not these the ideal opportunity for enslavement? This is how it has entered before; a desperate need (real or apparent) in the one party, a power (real or apparent) to relieve it, in the other.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, War, Party

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• I was staying in a hotel in San Francisco for a couple of nights, before flying back to the UK. My hotel was a desperate grey block made from paper and people’s screams. At night the sound of strangers having icy sex echoed off the building and poured through the broken air conditioning, like tiny daggers I couldn't see, reminding me of just the tip of what I was missing.

  Craig Stone

  Sex, Couple, Block

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• The best evangelists, the best preachers, the best teachers are desperate people.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Teacher, People, Preacher

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• Obama was quite serious when he said he was going to change the world. And now he has a national crisis, a personal mandate, a pliant Congress, a desperate public - and, at his disposal, the greatest pot of money in galactic history.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Serious, World, Pot

  "Obama the Centrist?". www.nationalreview.com. December 12, 2008.

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• It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape of betrayal. And perhaps there is no possible explanation.

  Joseph Conrad

  Betrayal, Long, Making Love

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Under Western Eyes (Unabridged Deluxe Edition): An Intriguing Tale of Espionage and Betrayal in Czarist Russia From the Renowned Author of Heart of Darkness, Nostromo & The Secret Agent (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.307, e-artnow

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• It's the hardest thing in the world to be in a business where it's all about people accepting you, and you have a desperate need to be accepted, and yet you live in a, you operate in a society that's now very unaccepting.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  People, Needs, World

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Nature, the sun itself, produces color effects... instantaneously. The impression of these evanescent visions is what we make desperate attempts to catch and fix by any means at hand. At such moments I am unconscious of materials, of style, of rules, of everything that intervenes between my perception and the object or idea perceived.

  Joaquin Sorolla

  Mean, Hands, Color

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• Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel.

  Samantha Shannon

  Writing, Doors, Knocking

  "Samantha Shannon: 'Writing was a drug I couldn't stop taking'" by Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2013.

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• Provocative. Striking. Rachel Resnick is a virtuoso on the page. Her fearless examination of the desperate thirst to find love is guaranteed to break your heart. Yet her cool-eyed analysis of the roots of this addiction inspires hope that through committed self-understanding, maybe each of us can change toxic patterns, whatever they may be.

  Samantha Dunn

  Heart, Love Is, Self

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• Perhaps randomness is not merely an adequate description for complex causes that we cannot specify. Perhaps the world really works this way, and many events are uncaused in any conventional sense of the word. Perhaps our gut feeling that it cannot be so reflects only our hopes and prejudices, our desperate striving to make sense of a complex and confusing world, and not the ways of nature.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Feelings, Confusing, World

  "Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes". Book by Stephen Jay Gould. "Chance Riches", p. 342, 1983.

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• I loved my father, but I was not like him. I never needed to believe the best of people. I took them as they were: two-faced, desperate, kind - perhaps all at once. But to Pa, they were all children of god, poor troubled sheep, who only needed love and an even break. He needed the world to back up what his religion told him about people. And when it came down to a choice between reason and faith, he let go of reason.

  Marcel Theroux

  Letting Go, Children, Father

  Marcel Theroux (2010). “Far North”, p.105, Faber & Faber

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• Sometimes the sins you haven't committed are all you have to hold on to. If you're really desperate, you might need to grope, saying, for example, "I've never killed anyone with a hammer" or "I've never stolen from anyone who didn't deserve it.

  David Sedaris

  Needs, Hammers, Might

  "Old Faithful" by David Sedaris, www.newyorker.com. November 29, 2004.

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• Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith - a desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will - but faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world - faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity.

  George F. Kennan

  Writing, Historical, Endurance

  "Putting History at Risk". www.nytimes.com. May 27, 1984.

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• Is it possible to love so desperately that life is unbearable? I don't mean unrequited, I mean being in the love. In the midst of it and desperate. Because knowing it will end, because everything does. End.

  Peter Heller

  Mean, Knowing, Unbearable

  Peter Heller (2012). “The Dog Stars”, p.71, Vintage

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• For a desperate disease a desperate cure.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Disease, Cures

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.382, 谷月社

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