Desperate Quotes - Page 36

• The circumstance that any man could suppose that Matthew when he said, 'Jacob begat Joseph,' or Luke, when he said, 'Joseph was the son of Heli' could refer to the wife of the one, or the daughter-in-law of the other, shows to what desperate stratagems polemical orthodoxy will resort in order to defend an untenable position.

  William Rathbone Greg

  Daughter, Son, Men

  William Rathbone Greg (1851). “The creed of Christendom: its foundations and superstructure”, p.98

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• Religion is but a desperate attempt to find an escape from the truly dreadful situation in which we find ourselves. Here we are in this wholly fantastic universe with scarcely a clue as to whether our existence has any real significance. No wonder then that many people feel the need for some belief that gives them a sense of security, and no wonder that they become very angry with people like me who say that this is illusory.

  Fred Hoyle

  Real, People, Giving

  Fred Hoyle (1960). “The nature of the universe”

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• No man is an island, as they say. No. I've tried it. I've gone on retreats at various times in my life for three or four or five days. I was desperate to get out of there and talk to somebody. But I fly fish a lot, and I can only do that really by myself. I find I'm never lonesome when I'm on a river, far from it, but it's a lonely practice.

  Liam Neeson

  Lonely, Men, Islands

  Source: collider.com

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• Some of your best songs come from a desperate attempt to escape, so sitting in an airport for hours I can just start pulling out little fragments of songs from my head. A lot of times a melody will just occur to me and be my companion for a couple of months.

  Andrew Bird

  Song, Couple, Airports

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. May 22, 2007.

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• I haven't always wanted to be an actor, no. I wasn't one of the little kids that was desperate to be an actor. I did a lot of drama and a lot of music, but it was just something for fun on the side. I was quite shy as a kid and I found a lot of freedom in performing. I never knew you could do it as a job.

  Gemma Chan

  Jobs, Fun, Drama

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• (I)t is highly questionable whether when 'Europe speaks with one voice', as we are so often told it is doing, anyone is really listening. Europe's reputation as a serious player in international affairs is unenviable. It is a feeble giant who desperate attempts to be taken seriously are largely risible. It has a weak currency and a sluggish inflexible economy, still much reliant on hidden protectionism. It has a shrinking, ageing, population and, with the exception of Britain, rather unimpressive armed forces and, not excepting Britain, muddled diplomacy.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Taken, Player, Europe

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• How does God save His people from the pleasure of sin? The answer is, “By imparting to them a nature which hates evil and loves holiness.” This takes place when they are born again, so that actual salvation begins with regeneration. Of course it does; where else could it commence? Fallen man can neither perceive his desperate need of salvation, nor come to Christ for it, till he has been renewed by the Holy Spirit.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Hate, Men, Evil

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• Things change when you learn to loosen your grip. I think one way and the future is desperate. I think another way everything is in sight. Trees bend so branches don't have to break. We mend the wounds of our last mistake... I live one way holding onto the fence post. I live another way sliding off into space. Each life is loosely assembled... Birds swim, fish do fly. Proud man begins to cry. Birds swim, fish do fly. Things change, so why can't I?

  Tim Finn

  Mistake, Men, Thinking

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• Books arent written on whim or promises. Books are written on years turned inside out by ideas that never let go until you get them in print, and even then writings a last resort, a desperate ransom you pay to get your life back.

  Richard Bach

  Letting Go, Book, Writing

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• When one commits one's self to an airborne craft and the door is fastened against earth and home, there is no escape even by running away. The result is a strange sense of peace - desperate, perhaps, but peace.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Running, Home, Doors

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “A Bridge for Passing”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• The causes that govern the heart appear to be wholly alien to the results achieved. Are the forces that moved a desperate criminal the same that fill a martyr with pride, as both mount the scaffold?

  Honore de Balzac

  Heart, Pride, Criminals

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• If once a woman breaks through the barriers of decency, her ease is desperate; and if she goes greater lengths than the men, and leaves the pale of propriety farther behind her, it is because she is aware that all return is prohibited, and by none so strongly as by her own sex.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Sex, Men, Break Through

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• For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live.

  May Sarton

  Comfort, Conflict, Dies

  May Sarton (2014). “Cloud, Stone, Sun, Vine: Poems Selected and New”, p.101, Open Road Media

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• Desperate ills need desperate remedies.

  Agatha Christie

  Needs, Remedy

  Agatha Christie (1989). “Murderers abroad: five complete novels”, Outlet

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• Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.

  Adrienne Rich

  Abortion, Violence, Firsts

  Adrienne Rich (1976). “Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution”

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• you don't need talent to be an artist. 'Artist' is just a frame of mind. Anybody can be an artist, anybody can communicate if they are desperate enough.

  Yoko Ono

  Artist, Mind, Needs

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• The buying of a self-help book is the most desperate of all human acts. It means you've lost your mind completely: You've entrusted your mental health to a self-aggrandizing twit with a psychology degree and a yen for a yacht.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Book, Mean, Self

  Cynthia Heimel (2004). “Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-bye”

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• We don't have a desperate need to grow. We have a desperate desire to grow.

  Milton Friedman

  Desire, Needs, Grows

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• As for bread, I count that for nothin'. We always have bread and potatoes enough; but I hold a family to be in a desperate way when the mother can see the bottom of the pork barrel. Give me children that's raised on good sound pork afore all the game in the country. Game's good as a relish and so's bread; but pork is the staff of life... My children I calkerlate to bring up on pork with just as much bread and butter as they want.

  James F. Cooper

  Country, Mother, Children

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• Clearly it is not the lovelorn sufferer who seeks solace in chocolate, but rather the chocolate-deprived individual, who, desperate, seeks in mere love a pale approximation of bittersweet euphoria.

  Sandra Boynton

  Food, Cooking, Chocolate

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• I grew up in a remarkable home, the middle of seven children. My parents raised us well. They loved us well. We laughed hard growing up. But being the middle child, I couldn't figure out where I fit in the home, whether I was the youngest of the older three or the oldest of the younger three. When you don't know where you fit inside the home and you're young and you're desperate to fit in somewhere, I'd figured where I would fit outside the home. So I made some bad decisions about who I hung out with, I dropped out of high school, got kicked out of the house.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Children, Growing Up, Home

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• My own theory is that people are just so desperate for somebody they can feel better than, in America. Now that everyone's going broke and working 17 jobs - if they have one at all - at least they can look at these guys behind bars and think, "At least I get to wear my own clothes to work."

  Jerry Stahl

  Jobs, Feel Better, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My disease is one of the best things that has happened to me; it has pulled me out of a quietly desperate life toward one full of love and hope.

  Tom O'Connor

  Disease, Hope And Love, Best Things

  Tom O'Connor, Ahmed González-Núñez (1987). “Living With AIDS: Reaching Out”, Corwin Pub

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• I am desperate and vulnerable. ... I am always terrified.... Beauty can sometimes be so very troublesome.

  Faye Dunaway

  Sometimes, Vulnerable, Terrified

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• There isn't a thing to eat down there in the rabbit hole of your bitterness except your own desperate heart.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Heart, Rabbits, Rabbit Holes

  Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.186, Atlantic Books Ltd

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