Desperate Situations Quotes

• There are no desperate situations, there are only desperate people.

  Heinz Guderian

  People, Historical, Desperation

  "Die Deutschen gepanzerten Truppen bis 1945". Book by Oskar Munzel, 1965.

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• If the tanks succeed, then victory follows.

  Heinz Guderian

  Victory, Succeed, Tanks

  Heinz Guderian (2001). “Panzer Leader”, p.43, Da Capo Press

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• People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think.

  George Carlin

  Bullying, Philosophy, Thinking

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• It is sometimes tougher to fight my superiors than the French.

  Heinz Guderian

  Fighting, Sometimes, Superiors

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• Jumping through any hoop or taking advantage of any desperate situation that comes up just to sell a product is harmful. It is.

  Trent Reznor

  Jumping, Advantage, Come Up

  "Q & A with Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails". Interview with Neala Johnson, www.heraldsun.com.au. May 16, 2007.

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• I guess they say, "Necessity is the mother of invention" because you have two stark choices when you find yourself in a really desperate situation. You can either fold and cave-in to it or you can become really passionate about getting out of it.

  Viola Davis

  Mother, Two, Choices

  Source: aalbc.com

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• There arc no such things as desperate situations. Only desperate men.

  Adolf Hitler

  Men, Arcs, Desperate

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• You have two stark choices when you find yourself in a really desperate situation. You can either fold and cave-in to it or you can become really passionate about getting out of it. When you're really passionate, you're going to grab hold of every rope you see, and wrap them around your arms and legs to claw your way out. And that's the way I've felt in my life.

  Viola Davis

  Two, Choices, Finding Yourself

  Source: pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• You cannot be desperate when the army is making advances. That should have happened - if we take into consideration that this presumption is correct and this is reality - you use it when you're in a desperate situation.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Army, Reality, Should Have

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• If you start getting yourself into just doing stuff for the money, even if it's a desperate situation, I just firmly believe that if you stick it out through that, then something right will come down the path.

  Anthony Green

  Believe, Path, Sticks

  Source: substreammagazine.com

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• The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style.

  Frank Auerbach

  Artist, Unity, Style

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• When I go to Africa and spend more time there with people who are the least of the least, those in desperate situations, I am broken by it. But I also find people with so much more joy and freedom living with nothing than I see walking down the streets of my own community here in Tennessee.

  Steven Curtis Chapman

  People, Broken, Community

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• What is it like being single? I like it! I like starting each day with a sense of possibility. And I'm optimistic, because everyday I get a little more desperate. And desperate situations yield the quickest results.

  Michael Scott

  Being Single, Optimistic, Yield

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• Like an animal caught in a trap, trying to gnaw off its own leg, a woman who seeks abortion is trying to escape a desperate situation by an act of violence and self-loss. Abortion is not a sign that women are free, but a sign that they are desperate.

  Frederica Mathewes-Green

  Loss, Animal, Self

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• He says he had to go help someone in a desperate situation. Who, exactly, he refuses to say. He doesn’t know when he’s going to be back, but suggests we put off the wedding for a few days. The rotter! How dare he just zoom off and not tell me where he’s going, or who he’s going to help, or what exactly he’s up to!” Yeah, how dare he go out and be all heroic and stuff when you want him here slobbering over your big boobs.

  Katie MacAlister

  Zoom, Want, Stuff

  Katie Macalister (2007). “Holy Smokes: An Aisling Grey, Guardian, Novel”, p.101, Penguin

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• In my work in Haiti, I've seen the hugely positive effects that happen when people come together to build something in the middle of the most desperate situations.

  Olivia Wilde

  People, Together, Haiti

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• I can’t count the times I have lagged seemingly hopelessly far behind, and nobody except myself thinks I can win. But I have pulled myself in from desperate [situations]. When you are behind there are two strategies - counter-attack or all men to the defences. I’m good at finding the right balance between those.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Men, Thinking, Winning

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