Desperate Quotes - Page 40

• Comely was the town by the curving river that they dismantled in a year's time. Beautiful was Colleton in her last spring as she flung azaleas like a girl throwing rice at a desperate wedding. In dazzling profusion, Colleton ripened in a gauze of sweet gardens and the town ached beneath a canopy of promissory fragrance.

  Pat Conroy

  Beautiful, Girl, Sweet

  Pat Conroy (2016). “The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides: Three Classic Novels in One Collection”, p.1177, Open Road Media

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• I’ve sometimes thought that it’s only by recalling that desperate devotion my kids once felt for me that I can maintain my own desperate devotion in the face of their adolescent sneering.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Kids, Faces, Sometimes

  "‘Impossible Pursuits’ on film: A Q&A with Ayelet Waldman". Interview with Katie Hafner, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 4, 2011.

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• I had all these desperate feelings. I kept thinking, How will I ever play football again if I can't even get out of this bed? I was an invalid. Football had given me everything: identity, money, confidence, friendships. I wondered what kind of man I would be without it.

  Keith Millard

  Football, Men, Thinking

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• Advertizing, television and film all wield mighty powers to visually seduce us, while much fine art leaves us indifferent, confused or, at worst, repulsed. There is a desperate need for creative Christians to redeem the visual arena from both forms of excess, cutting through all the false glamour, tawdry baseness and dense obfuscation.

  John Walford

  Christian, Art, Confused

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• Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our need to make sense of our lives, to wake up and grow and belong. It is no wonder if we sometimes tend to take ourselves perhaps a bit too seriously.

  Anne Lamott

  Writing, Needs, Wake Up

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.19, Anchor

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• The tragedy of today is that the situation is desperate but the saints are not.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Tragedy, Saint

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• Britain is producing some of the worst films in the world. Our film industry is desperate to be part of America, and we just churn out flaccid imitations of bad films over there.

  Catherine McCormack

  America, World, Film

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

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• I believe that human beings are desperate, always, to belong to something larger than themselves.

  David Whyte

  Believe, Humans, Human Beings

  "Making Work Meaningful: Towards a Soul-based Workplace", www.pbs.org.

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• Why does the longing for love have to be so acute, like a desperate thirst? Is it because love is wanting to be saved and we can never really be saved? Maybe love is really born of our fears. Love is the heart’s desire for a painkiller; a tearful plea for a great big epidural. Yes that’s it: love is the only anesthesia that really works. And so people with broken hearts are really those who are just coming to, and if you’ve ever seen someone come out of general anesthesia, you know that it looks a lot like the beginnings of a broken heart.

  Jonathan Hull

  Heart, Love Is, People

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• The privileged individuals and families who comprise the global elite will happily bankrupt their own countrymen, decimate their own community and evict their neighbors from houses in their desperate bid to increase their wealth.

  James Morcan

  House, Community, Wealth

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• At the bottom of philosophy something very true and very desperate whispers: Everyone is hungry all the time. Everyone is starving. Everyone wants so much, much more than they can stomach, but the appetite doesn't converse much with the stomach. Everyone is hungry and not only for food - for comfort and love and excitement and the opposite of being alone. Almost everything awful anyone does is to get those things and keep them.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Philosophy, Opposites, And Love

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• For the ANC to cry 'sabotage' the night before crucial local government elections shows just how desperate they are to disguise their incompetence and mismanagement.

  Helen Zille

  Night, Government, Election

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• If all we seek is an escape, what does that say about the world we live in? That village, that city, that life? We are desperate with our dreams. What - oh, what - does that say?

  Steven Erikson

  Dream, Doe, World

  "The Crippled God: Book Ten of The Malazan Book of the Fallen". Book by Steven Erikson, February 15, 2011.

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• You go from these high hopes when you're writing to just a desperate want of not making a complete fool of yourself by the end of it.

  Rian Johnson

  Writing, Want, Fool

  "Rian Johnson talks 'Looper', Bruce Willis' voiceover, and 'Breaking Bad'". Interview with Scott Neumyer, www.ifc.com. January 9, 2013.

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• In 1977, at age ten, I was cast on the TV sitcom 'Good Times.' My character was Penny, an abused child in desperate need of love. I really didn't want to do the show. I didn't want to be away from my family.

  Janet Jackson

  Children, Character, Age

  Janet Jackson (2011). “True You”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.

  Robert Burns

  Matter, Faces

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• Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have everything to gain and nothing much to lose. It's middle-age which is cursed by the desperate need to cling to some finger-hold halfway up the mountain, to conform, not to cause trouble, to behave well.

  John Mortimer

  Children, People, Childhood

  John Mortimer (1995). “Murderers and Other Friends: Another Part of Life”

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• Beauty is all about us, but how many are blind! They look at the wonder of this earth and seem to see nothing. People move hectically but give little thought to where they are going. They seek excitement ... as if they were lost and desperate.

  Pablo Casals

  Beauty, Moving, People

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

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• The newsprint thesp celebrity interview as a middle-brow art form suffers from desperate overproduction. There'll be at least 10 in the broadsheets today and every Sunday hereafter.

  Peter York

  Art, Sunday, Suffering

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• But there is no sole person for another's heart. Souls cannot be broken and then completed by another. That's not healthy, nor wise. There are infinite possibilities as there are infinite people and some matches are better than others...Just don't say that you'll die without the other one or that you'll never love again or that you're not whole-That's the stuff of Romeo and Juliet, hasty nonsense, and you know how well that turned out...Just don't be desperate about it. That's where souls go wrong, when they think they don't have choices. The heart must make choices.

  Leanna Renee Hieber

  Wise, Heart, Thinking

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• Not only was Dan Cooper likely an alias, but many people suspected at the time were people living under assumed names. The '50s and '60s were a time when some people were desperate to leave their lives. They felt trapped in their marriages or their jobs, and they were seeking freedom. And one of the ways to do that, because technology wasn't advanced as it is today, was just to take over somebody's name.

  Geoffrey Gray

  Jobs, Technology, Names

  "Will Don Draper Become D.B. Cooper? A Skyjacking Expert Weighs In". Interview with Julia Turner, www.slate.com. April 16, 2014.

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• By trying to control everything we become very neurotic, more and more desperate. It's a huge tragic thing.

  Charlotte Rampling

  Trying, Tragic, Neurotic

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• But I'd be lying if I didn't say that every time you go to make a film, you're desperate to either do it better than you did it last time or to not repeat yourself.

  Paul Thomas Anderson

  Lying, Lasts, Film

  "Paul Thomas Anderson strikes cinematic oil". www.today.com. January 3, 2008.

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• In a year of re-election he was desperate to impress.

  Rod Stewart

  Years, Politics, Election

  Song: Here to Eternity, Album: Rod Stewart, 1986

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• The most interesting character to me is someone who is stuck in the no man's land between Belief and Unbelief, Faith and Faithlessness. I'm capitalizing like a German, but it doesn't matter whether it's faith in a person or in God, or belief in science or whatever, it's the desperate in-between state that makes for interesting dramatic tension.

  Richard Dooling

  Character, Men, Land

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