Desperate Quotes

• writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers.

  Charles Bukowski

  Writing, People

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

  Heinz Guderian

  Desperate Situations, People, Historical

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

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• I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said 'Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.'

  Nicole Kidman

  Positive, Break Up, Heartbroken

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Nov 25, 2016

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• Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.

  William Blake

  Future, Rage, Remorse

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.343, Oxford University Press, USA

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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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• I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.

  Jim Carrey

  Thinking, Creating, Interesting

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• A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Leadership, Hope, Giving

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• It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Wisdom, Business

  'Walden' (1854) 'Economy'

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• I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive.

  Nicole Kidman

  Break Up, Breakup, Being Positive

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Jul 14, 2014

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• Desperate affairs require desperate measures.

  Horatio Nelson

  Desperate Measures, Affair, Horatio

  "The Book of Military Quotations". Book by Peter G. Tsouras (p. 54), 1992.

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• Desperate? That can be a justification for all kinds of behavior.

  Jessica Walter

  Kind, Behavior, Justification

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• To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

  Erich Fromm

  Hope, Mean, Birth

  Erich Fromm (2011). “The Revolution of Hope”, p.22, Lantern Books

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• I'm not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself. I can't join your gang: you'd think I was a phony and I'd know it.

  Vivian Stanshall

  Thinking, Being Different, Sake

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• That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Ties, Matter, Fixing

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• His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.

  Edmund Wilson

  Life, Inspire, Style

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• In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.

  Livy

  Cases, Difficult

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXV, section 38,

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• The only people who are desperate to go on the show are people we're desperate not to have on the show.

  Graham Norton

  People, Goes On, Shows

  "Another interview with a funny guy called ‘Graham’". Interview with Demetrius Romeo, standanddeliver.blogs.com. April 06, 2005.

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• If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

  Andre Breton

  Love, Affair, States

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• In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid.

  Al Purdy

  Kids, Mind, My Own

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• I was desperate really for people not to accuse me of coldness. It was taboo.

  Thomas Dolby

  People, Desperation, Taboo

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• We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Writing, Stuff, Missions

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• I'm desperate to start a career in music.

  Katie Price

  Careers

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• Our family has gone through a very difficult time. My husband and I have taken the brunt of it. I've never known what it truly felt like to be so sad and desperate inside.

  Tracey Gold

  Husband, Taken, Gone

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• Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.

  Frank Sinatra

  Music, Rock And Roll, Rocks

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• Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best

  Bob Geldof

  Mankind

  Bob Geldof, Paul Vallely (1988). “Is That It?”, Ballantine Books

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