Desperate Quotes - Page 12

• 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

  Desperate Situations, People, Together

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• The Lord knew I would someday be charged with the priesthood responsibility for hundreds and even thousands of Heavenly Father's children who were in desperate temporal need.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Children, Father, Responsibility

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• I realize how desperate it sounds for me, as a comedian, to ask you to laugh at my jokes.

  John Oliver

  Laughing, Comedian, Sound

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• When test scores go up, we should worry, because of how poor a measure they are of what matters, and what you typically sacrifice in a desperate effort to raise scores.

  Alfie Kohn

  School, Sacrifice, What Matters

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• Like so much of what is worthwhile in life, our needs for friendship are often best met in the home. If our children feel friendship within the family, with each other, and with parents, they will not be desperate for acceptance outside the family. I think one of life’s most satisfying accomplishments for my wife and me is to have lived long enough to see our children become good friends.

  Marlin K. Jensen

  Children, Home, Acceptance

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• Some folks hide and some folks seek, and seeking when its mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous, can be a form of hiding.

  Tom Robbins

  Hiding, Still Life With Woodpecker, Form

  "Still Life With Woodpecker". Book by Tom Robbins, October 1980.

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• She hated that she was still so desperate for a glimpse of him, but it had been this way for years.

  Julia Quinn

  Unrequited Love, Years, Glimpse

  Julia Quinn (2007). “The secret diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever”

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• And now I understand that truth casts a spell of its own, one I'm not sure of how to hold on to, though I'm desperate to try.

  Libba Bray

  Trying, Not Sure, Casts

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.212, Delacorte Press

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• … in the relentless and meaningless manner one searches for something in a nightmare, coming on doors that won’t open or drawers that won’t shut, struggling over and over against the same meaningless thing, not knowing why the effort seems so desperate, why the sudden sight of a chair with a shawl thrown over it inspires the mind with horror.

  Anne Rice

  Struggle, Sight, Doors

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.600, Ballantine Books

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• Our struggle is--isn't it?--to achieve and retain faith on a lower level. To believe that there is a Listener at all. For as the situation grows more and more desperate, the grisly fears intrude. Are we only talking to ourselves in an empty universe? The silence is often so emphatic. And we have prayed so much already

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Struggle, Talking

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• Nothing more or less than the deepest, most desperate desire of our hearts.

  J. K. Rowling

  Heart, Desire, Dumbledore Book

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• The secret message communicated to most young people today by the society around them is that they are not needed, that the society will run itself quite nicely until they - at some distant point in the future - will take over the reigns. Yet the fact is that the society is not running itself nicely... because the rest of us need all the energy, brains, imagination and talent that young people can bring to bear down on our difficulties. For society to attempt to solve its desperate problems without the full participation of even very young people is imbecile.

  Alvin Toffler

  Running, People, Imagination

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• To such men the desperate and horrible thought has come that perhaps the whole of human life is but a bad joke, a violent and ill-fated abortion of the primal mother, a savage and dismal catastophe of nature.

  Hermann Hesse

  Mother, Men, Abortion

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.45, Macmillan

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• I have a desperate longing to have a desperate longing

  Joss Whedon

  Longing

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• I stole a significant amount of money from a family member. I knew I was going to get caught, but I was so desperate I didn't care. It was a cry for help.

  Cory Monteith

  Care, Helping, Cry

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

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• Desperate, yet no longer alone after that day, because we'd found each other.

  Suzanne Collins

  Found

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.117, Scholastic Inc.

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• Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.

  Anne Carson

  Song, Drama, Heart

  Anne Carson (1999). “Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse”, Vintage

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• Sometimes that's all life is... One desperate act after another.

  Terry Goodkind

  Sometimes, Life Is

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Stone Of Tears”, p.290, Head of Zeus

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• And tonight our skin, our bones, that have survived our fathers, will meet, delicate in the hold, fastened together in an intricate lock. Then one of us will shout, "My need is more desperate!" and I will eat you slowly with kisses even though the killer in you has gotten out.

  Anne Sexton

  Father, Kissing, Skins

  Anne Sexton (1999). “Love Poems”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You went out with a girl at first because the sheer sight of her made you weak in the knees. You fell in love and were desperate not to let her get away. And yet the more you thought about her, the less you knew who she was. The hope was that love transcended all differences. That was the hope.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Girl, Sight, Differences

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.275, Macmillan

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• In the oasis complex, the thirsty man images he sees water, palm trees, and shade not because he has evidence for the belief, but because he has a need for it. Desperate needs bring about a hallucination of their solution: thirst hallucinates water, the need for love hallucinates a prince or princess. The oasis complex is never a complete delusion: the man in the desert does see something on the horizon. It is just that the palms have withered, the well is dry, and the place is infected with locusts.

  Alain de Botton

  Love, Princess, Men

  Alain de Botton (2015). “On Love: A Novel”, p.52, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• His version of 'real' love isn't sufficient for me, I don't think anyone should settle for so little. It wasn't love - not in the true sense. On my part, it was neediness, insecurity, dependence, habit - desperate to feel loved by a man who was often ambivalent towards me. 

  Freya North

  Real, Men, Thinking

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• If Nick Broomfield never found anyone with affection for Courtney Love, it's only because he conspicuously avoided the countless friends, colleagues and fans who appreciate her talent and admire her as a person. But then, why would Broomfield have opened up his film to those of us who work with Courtney and are close to her when there are so many bitter left - behinds and desperate attention - seekers eager to validate his attack on her character? Inquisitors in every age, scared of forceful women, have used all kinds of half - baked testimony to whip up chants of 'Burn the witch!'

  Edward Norton

  Character, Appreciate, Age

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• Eyeing the traffic circulating the lobby hung with bad art. Big invasive stuff unloaded on Stanley Bard in exchange for rent. The hotel is an energetic, desperate haven for scores of gifted hustling children from every rung of the ladder. Guitar bums and stoned-out beauties in Victorian dresses. Junkie poets, playwrights, broke-down filmmakers, and French actors. Everybody passing through here is somebody, if not in the outside world.

  Patti Smith

  Art, Children, Guitar

  "Just Kids". Book by Patti Smith, www.cbc.ca. January 4, 2011.

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• Right after 'Desperate' sold to China, we were the most watched show around the world at the time. That's really something great to be a part of.

  Felicity Huffman

  World, China, Shows

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