Desperate Quotes - Page 6

• The future is itself a story, and predictions are stories we tell to amaze ourselves, to give hope to the desperate, to jolt the complacent.

  David Remnick

  Giving, Stories, Predictions

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• When one is engaged in a desperate defense of one's world and its values, nothing can be given away, any breach in the walls might be fatal, every point must be defended to the death.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Wall, Defense, World

  Isaiah Berlin (2013). “The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas”, p.161, Princeton University Press

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• With irrigation channels and rivers running dry and municipal water storage dams reaching record lows, California's politicians are getting desperate for solutions to a drought that seemingly has no end.

  Marc Levine

  Running, California, Rivers

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• When you start reading nonfiction books about piracy, you realize that it's actually just a history of desperate people.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Reading, People

  "Lemony Snicket Walks the Plank". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. January, 2015.

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• Madame Bovary is one my favorite novels. Emma Bovary will always be an enigma, but as the years pass, I feel that I understand her better. She has a violent nostalgia, almost an infantile nostalgia, to be understood by the men surrounding her. I like her relentless fight for independence, her rebellion against the mediocre, and her quest for the sublime, even if she burns her wigs in the process. I like that Flaubert never judges her morally for her self-destructiveness, for her desperate attempt to satisfy her wildest desires and appetites.

  Sophie Barthes

  Fighting, Men, Self

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• This is how the great post-partisan, post-racial, New Politics presidency ends - not with a bang, not with a whimper, but with a desperate election-eve plea for ethnic retribution.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Bangs, Election, Retribution

  "The great campaign of 2010". www.washingtonpost.com. October 28, 2010.

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• After a desperate fight, to know to congratulate your opponent, if he has beaten you, to shake his hand and go for a drink with him, in my eyes these things are particularly important.

  Yannick Noah

  Eye, Fighting, Hands

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• Poverty breeds a lot of things. When people are desperate and trying to survive, they do drastic things.

  Damian Marley

  People, Trying, Poverty

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I think people are a mixture of everything. I like desperate characters because they do things that most of us normally wouldn't do. If a character is a scoundrel or a liar you think you know them, but then I can bring some emotion to them and they become much fuller than you ever imagined. So what I try to do is have a story where you don't quite know where it's going, and characters who you don't quite know where they're going.

  Richard Shepard

  Liars, Character, Thinking

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• For people who are desperate and searching, sexuality on the Internet offers an incredible release.

  Volkmar Sigusch

  People, Internet, Incredibles

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• Over the years, HIV/AIDS activists and their allies have been pioneers in creating new frontiers in the medical establishment. Through their efforts, the FDA drug approval procedures were reformed so promising new therapies could reach desperate patients quicker.

  David Mixner

  Fda, Years, Creating

  "Why The HIV/AIDS Community Should Care About the New Medicare Panel" by David Mixner, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 2, 2010.

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• I know too much; I've seen people at their worst, at their most desperate and selfish, and this knowledge makes me wary. So I am learning to pretend, to smile, to nod, to display empathy I do not feel. I am learning to pass, to look like everyone else, even though I feel broken inside.

  Christina Baker Kline

  Selfish, Broken Inside, People

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• The Test arena is a place I have been desperate to get back to, it is the pinnacle of the sport

  James Taylor

  Sports, Tests, Arena

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• Some people, when desperate, retreat to pills or hard liquor. I nap.

  Brock Clarke

  Naps, People, Pills

  Brock Clarke (2011). “Exley”, p.32, Algonquin Books

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• Who could be more desperate than filmmakers?

  Steven Shainberg

  Filmmaker

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• If the nobles of the country really have the welfare of the people at heart, they should prevent and forbid music wherever it makes an appearance. For the fact that the people practise music has four disadvantages. The hungry are not fed, the cold are not clothed, the homeless are not sheltered and the desperate find no consolation.

  John Tilbury

  Country, Heart, People

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• If you're going to make a desperate, hopeless act of defiance you should make it a good one.

  Ann Leckie

  Hopeless, Should, Defiance

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• Loneliness is something we [all people] go through. We go through mourning and longing. We make some bad choices sometimes because we're desperate for something, and that's okay. That's part of life.

  Jennifer Lee

  Loneliness, People, Choices

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• When things are really desperate and hopeless and you can't do anything about this, and there's a sense that something must be done, that is something usually leads to the U.N.

  Kofi Annan

  Done, Hopeless

  "Kofi Annan on 40 Years Trying to End War, Promote Peace at the United Nations". "PBS Newshour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. September 17, 2012.

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• The rich nations of the world are acting like ancient usurers, lending money to the desperate poor on terms that cannot possibly be met and, thus, steadily acquiring more and more control over the lives and assets of the poor.

  William Greider

  Acting, World, Ancient

  William Greider (1998). “One World, Ready Or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism”, p.282, Simon and Schuster

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• A LeBron James team is never desperate.

  LeBron James

  Team

  "A LeBron James Team Is Never Desperate" by Michael Lee, voices.washingtonpost.com. May 15, 2008.

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• God does not answer our desperate questionings; he simply gives us himself.

  Francois Mauriac

  Giving, Doe, Answers

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• So they were desperately in love and being desperately in love involves a desperate existence.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Existence

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• Lies are just another kind of storytelling, but with the very distinct and enlivening motive of desperation. Since writers are by nature desperate creatures, they usually do a pretty good (or pretty awful, but always interesting) job of lying.

  John Hodgman

  Jobs, Lying, Interesting

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• People hate it when they're tickled because laughter is not pleasant, if it goes on too long. I think it's a desperate sort of convulsion in desperate circumstances, which helps a little.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Laughter, Hate, Thinking

  Public Radio International Interview, October 2006.

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