Desperate Quotes - Page 39

• The murders of Newtown are a warning to me - and you. Not a warning to see our schools as defenseless, but to see our souls as depraved. To see our need for a Savior. To humble ourselves in repentance for the God-diminishing bitterness of our hearts. To turn to Christ in desperate need, and to treasure his forgiveness, his transforming, and his friendship.

  John Piper

  Heart, Humble, School

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• You must watch the pictures that you paint with your imagination. Your environment and the conditions of your life at any given time are the direct result of your own inner expectations. If you imagine dire circumstances, ill health or desperate loneliness, these will be 'automatically' materialized, for these thoughts themselves bring about the conditions that will give them a reality in physical terms. If you would have good health then you must imagine this as vividly as you fearfully imagine ill health.

  Seth

  Loneliness, Health, Reality

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• For all of the creeds are false, and all of the creeds are true; And low at the shrines where my brothers bow, there will I bow too; For no form of a god, and no fashion Man has made in his desperate passion, But is worthy some worship of mine; Not too hot with a gross belief, Nor yet too cold with pride, I will bow me down where my brothers bow, Humble, but open eyed.

  Don Marquis

  Fashion, Brother, Passion

  Don Marquis, William McCollum (1982). “Selected letters of Don Marquis”, Northwoods Pr

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• When I was in High School I fell for pretty much any girl I ever met. But I was so desperate that I couldn't get any of them because they sensed my desperation! After many, many years, I learned to relax and just be myself.

  Jack Black

  Girl, School, Years

  Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The big reason why I became an actor in the first place was to communicate. I never acted in high school...I was desperate to communicate.

  Bruce Dern

  School, Actors, Firsts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'd always loved movies, but it wasn't some sort of desperate love of celluloid. It was literally like, "I want to write things, and I want people to see them more."

  Lena Dunham

  Writing, People, Want

  Interview with Claire Danes, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 1, 2012.

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• My image of what a city should be - the super-rich and all the poor and desperate and the people who have some kind of a desire. It's a surviving game, people trying to survive on many different levels.

  Ai Weiwei

  Games, Cities, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am desperate for attention. But everyone else is too. Everyone has fantasies of fame and greatness. Life for most people is a process of shedding those fantasies.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Greatness, People, Attention

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.

  Alice Walker

  Spiritual, Believe, Animal

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.278, Hachette UK

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• Some friends don't understand this. They don't understand how desperate I am to have someone say, I love you and I support you just the way you are because you're wonderful just the way you are. They don't understand that I can't remember anyone ever saying that to me. I am so demanding and difficult for my friends because I want to crumble and fall apart before them so that they will love me even though I am no fun, lying in bed, crying all the time, not moving. Depression is all about If you loved me you would.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Depression, Fun, Lying

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• The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire! To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire...driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there's no sign of love in sight!

  Carson McCullers

  Lonely, Heart, Fire

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• The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.

  Richard J. Foster

  Intelligent, Numbers, People

  Richard J. Foster (2009). “Celebration of Discipline: The Path To Spiritual Growth”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• America was founded on prayer. Therefore, the removal of prayer from its public life was a central part of its fall from God. A nation that turns away from prayer will ultimately find itself in desperate need of it.

  Jonathan Cahn

  Prayer, Fall, America

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• We need books...because we are all, in the private kingdoms of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend.

  Steve Almond

  Wise, True Friend, Book

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• There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand others. They will create subtler, wilder methods, methods that are absolutely DESPERATE. Nature herself is fundamentally antisocial, it is only by a usurpation of powers that the organized body of society opposes the natural inclination of humanity.

  Antonin Artaud

  Mean, Soul, Humanity

  Antonin Artaud (1988). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.99, Univ of California Press

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• Our first and true home was Paradise: a land that is both perfect and eternal. So the yearning for that type of life is a part of our being. The problem is that we try to find that here. And so we create ageless creams and cosmetic surgery in a desperate attempt to hold on-in an attempt to mold this world into what it is not, and will never be.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Islamic, Home, Land

  "Depending on God" by Yasmin Mogahed, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 3, 2011.

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• Gary Shteyngart has written a memoir for the ages. I spat laughter on the first page and closed the last with wet eyes. Un-put-down-able in the day and a half I spent reading it, Little Failure is a window into immigrant agony and ambition, Jewish angst, and anybody's desperate need for a tribe. Readers who've fallen for Shteyngart's antics on the page will relish the trademark humor. But here it's laden and leavened with a deep, consequential, psychological journey. Brave and unflinching, Little Failure is his best book to date

  Mary Karr

  Laughter, Book, Reading

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• Christians can trust God to redeem even the greatest of tragedies and the most desperate of situations.

  Franklin Graham

  Christian, Tragedy, Trust In God

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• Don't be sad! Because God sends hope in the most desperate moments. Don't forget, the heaviest rain comes out of the darkest clouds.

  Rumi

  Rain, Clouds, Forget

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• I guess the GOP may be more desperate than I thought to call somebody like me.

  Phil Robertson

  May, Gop, Like Me

  "Live coverage of GOP conference speakers Bobby Jindal, Phil Robertson at 6 p.m." by Adriane Quinlan, www.nola.com. May 29, 2014.

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• The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps for the many. The glittering mansion overlooks a vast sprawl of shanty towns, wherein a desperate, demoralized humanity is kept in line with drugs, television, and armed force.

  Michael Parenti

  Nature, Money, Army

  "Against Empire". Book by Michael Parenti, May 1995.

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• When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Army

  Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.19, Lulu.com

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• Love happens! I release the desperate need for love, and instead, allow it to find me in the perfect time-space sequence.

  Louise Hay

  Space, Perfect, Needs

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from May 13, 2016

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• Because of President Obama's failed record on nearly every issue from the economy to the deficit to Medicare, the Obama campaign has become increasingly dirty, despicable, and desperate.

  Reince Priebus

  Dirty, Issues, President

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• If you're not sure about whether to support Mitt Romney, whether you're liberal, or whether you're very conservative, you ought to be excited, because he's been on your side at one time or another. So I'm not completely misunderstood. I'm not as excited as I am desperate.

  Louie Gohmert

  Your Side, Support, Misunderstood

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