Desperate Quotes - Page 37

• Your defeat is not only a reality, which has been historically proven time and again. It can also be seen in your helplessness and your inability to suppress the movement, in your desperate conduct when faced with our guerrillas and the vanguard of the people.

  Ashraf Dehghani

  Reality, People, Inability

  "Torture & Resistance in Iran: Memoirs of the Woman Guerrilla Ashraf Dehghani". Book by Ashraf Dihqani, 1978.

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• No war can end war except a total war which leaves no human creature on earth. Each war creates the causes of war: hate, desire for revenge and have-nots, desperate with need.

  Zelda Popkin

  Revenge, Hate, War

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• that crack of the bat against a ball has been my mantra, a sound I hear in desperate moments, at times when I crave total satisfaction, a sound I hear over and over when I want something very badly but can't express what it is.

  Lucy Jane Bledsoe

  Sports, Baseball, Moments

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• The most degrading of human passions is the fear of death. It tears away the restraints and the conventions which alone make social life possible to man; it reveals the brute in him which underlies them all. In the desperate hand-to-hand struggle for life there is no element of nobility. He who is engaged upon it throws aside honor, he throws aside self-respect, he throws aside all that would make victory worth having - he asks for nothing but bare life.

  Gertrude Bell

  Death, Struggle, Passion

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• So yeah, anyway - I'm thirty-four and my mother is desperate for me to get married. She thinks settling down is what you should be doing at thirty-four. How would she like it if I turned to her the day she hits eighty and said: 'Hey, Mum - when are you going to break your hip? All your friends are breaking theirs'?

  Sue Margolis

  Marriage, Mother, Thinking

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• Don't compliment me in the middle of an argument. It won't make me stammer or blush, and it just makes you look desperate.

  Suzanne Enoch

  Looks, Argument, Compliment

  Suzanne Enoch (2011). “A Beginner's Guide to Rakes”, p.195, Macmillan

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• In every one of these haunting and hungry poems, Howell draws a map for how to enter the heat and dew of the human being, naked and facing the natural world, desperate to feel. I did not realize while reading Render how deeply I was handing everything over.

  Nikky Finney

  Reading, Dew, Naked

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• This is the way the world really ends: not with whimper but a desperate chuckle.

  Martin Firrell

  World, Way, Ends

  "The Question Mark Inside". Text projections onto St Paul's Cathedral, London, 2008.

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• Imagine yourself acclaimed, a decorated national hero, an idol to millions of desperate people, then within six months, condemned to death by hanging.

  Joachim Peiper

  Hero, Idols, People

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• I took desperate measures to lose weight and did terrible things to myself. I went from diet pills to thirty laxatives a day to throwing up.

  Richard Simmons

  Desperate Measures, Pills, Weight

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• I got my first job as a card-carrying actor in New York in 1967. Before that, I was a very desperate wannabe.

  Morgan Freeman

  Jobs, New York, Cards

  "Actor Morgan Freeman, Part 2". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. June 20, 2012.

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• Failure may be cruel, but success is crueller still. The gods are usurers, you know; they lend to mortals, but they exact a desperate interest.

  Katherine Cecil Thurston

  May, Success And Failure, Interest

  Katherine Cecil Thurston (2012). “Max”, p.78, tredition

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• If you're willing to travel, or just super-desperate, the best place in the world to meet unattached men is on the Alaska pipeline. I'm told that the trek through the frozen tundra is well worth the effect for any woman who wants to know what it feels like to be Victoria Principal.

  Linda Sunshine

  Men, Alaska, Dating

  Linda Sunshine (2005). “Women Who Date Too Much... And Those Who Should Be So Lucky: Happy Dating, Great Sex, Healthy Relationships, and Other Delusions”, Three Rivers Press

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• Changing schools and friends is hard on children and can often make them desperate and lonely enough to form closer ties with a sibling.

  Linda Sunshine

  Lonely, Children, Sibling

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• If you believe you have a just cause, an important message, or a key contribution to make, you will be just as innovative as a college freshman desperate to see his girlfriend six hundred miles away. You will get there any way you can.

  Laurie Beth Jones

  Girlfriend, Believe, College

  Laurie Beth Jones (1995). “Jesus, CEO: using ancient wisdom for visionary leadership”, Hyperion Books

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• Humans in modern societies are driven by a perhaps desperate hope that they might find some way of mobilizing their theoretical and empirical knowledge and their evaluative systems so as both to locate themselves and their projects in some larger imaginative structure that makes sense to them. ... Furthermore, many modern agents would like it to be the case that the form of orientation which their life has is, if not true, at least compatible with the best available knowledge.

  Raymond Geuss

  Agents, Might, Way

  "Philosophy and Real Politics". Book by Raymond Geuss, 2008.

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• What humans do when they're desperate is just an expression of fear. What they do when they feel safe is a better indication of whether or not you can trust them.

  Michelle Sagara

  Trust, Fear, Expression

  Michelle Sagara (2009). “Cast in Silence”, p.51, LUNA

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• Middle-class people are becoming desperate. It can cause a moral man to break bad.

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Men, Class, People

  "Breaking Bad" Q&A: Star Giancarlo Esposito Discusses the Season Finale". Interview with Merle Ginsberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 9, 2011.

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• The end of a dissolute life is most commonly a desperate death.

  Bion of Smyrna

  Life Is, Ends

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• For the first time in my adult lifetime, I'm really proud of my country ... not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change,” she said. “I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction and just not feeling so alone in my frustration and disappointment.

  Michel'le

  Country, Disappointment, Moving

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• The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.

  Vikas Swarup

  Firsts, Notes, Cupboards

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• I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith.

  Maeve Binchy

  Mad, Suffering, Saint

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• I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.

  Maeve Binchy

  Morning, Pain, People

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• Since I spent eighteen years of my life as a child, and nine years of that life as a pretty sexually active gay child, my complaint against the current attitudes is that they work mightily to silence the voices of children first and secondarily ignore what adults have to say who have been through these situations. One size fits all is never the way to handle any situation with a human dimension. Many, many children-and I was one of them-are desperate to establish some sort of sexual relation with an older and even adult figure.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Attitude, Children, Gay

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• But desperate people find courage.

  Ken Follett

  People

  Ken Follett (2010). “The Pillars of the Earth”, p.315, Penguin

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