Desperate Quotes - Page 3

• 'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mother, Country, Patriotic

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• If one is desperate for love, I suggest looking at one's friends and family and see if love is all around. If not, get a new set of friends, a new family.

  Jasmine Guy

  Love, Family, Desperation

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• Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Marriage, People, Argument

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• You think you can go into all those auditions not knowing who you are? The work came after I found my sense of self - when I wasn't so manic and desperate.

  Jenifer Lewis

  Thinking, Knowing, Self

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

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• I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.

  Lisa Bonet

  Art, Careers, Creating

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

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• I love the script and I just thought it was a great role. Like I say, it's like this - the script is like this sad, funny, desperate love song to the lost American man.

  Oliver Platt

  Song, Lost Love, Men

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• Restless, and in desperate need of adventure, I quit my job at an insurance company to travel west with a couple of guys I smoked pot with, scandalizing my family.

  Mink Stole

  Travel, Jobs, Couple

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• I was desperate to go back to New York and when 9/11 happened, I feared moving to the bulls-eye and that was very hard because I have a lot of family there and I really had to question what I didn't like about this community.

  Tea Leoni

  New York, Moving, Eye

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

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• I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left.

  Naomi Watts

  Sexy, Self, Labels

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

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• Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Courage, Cowardice, Aggravated

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• The heart wants what it wants.

  Woody Allen

  Witty, Inspirational Love, Humorous

  Quoted in USA Today, 24 Aug. 1992 See Pascal 14

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• All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.

  William Blake

  Future, Rage, Destruction

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.421, Pearson Education

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• When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Romantic, Men, Gestures

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• I've worked with the greatest actors, and they're all gone. This is what's so desperate to me.

  Angela Lansbury

  Gone, Actors

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• I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Lying, People, Hunger

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• My experience has been in a short 77 years that in the end when you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win.

  Edward Teller

  Courage, Fighting, Winning

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• A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.

  Elia Kazan

  People, Directors, Doe

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• I think Desperate Housewives is a pretty good show, I watch it, I like it and I don't love reality tv that much. I do watch some, I've got three daughters so we'll watch the good stuff, the fun stuff.

  Bob Saget

  Mother, Daughter, Fun

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.

  Delmore Schwartz

  Love, Courage, Noble

  Delmore Schwartz (1989). “Last & Lost Poems”, p.16, New Directions Publishing

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• Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Marriage, Wedding, Bird

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book III, Ch. 5, 1595.

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• I hope this will help new moms not feel alone or desperate, and that there is no shame in their feelings. PPD is out of their control, but the treatment and healing process is not.

  Brooke Shields

  Mom, Healing, Feelings

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• Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.

  Lewis Mumford

  Mom, Baby, People

  LEWIS MUMFORD (1961). “THE CITY IN HISTORY”

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• Now a movie goes out to two, three thousand theaters and by Friday night at 10 o'clock they know if you are in or out. That desperate competition is, I think, horrendous. It's awful.

  Mark Rydell

  Friday, Night, Thinking

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• Like the Spitfire it was immensely strong: a pilot had no need to fear the danger of pulling the wings off, no matter how desperate the situation became.

  Douglas Bader

  Strong, Wings, Needs

  Douglas Bader (2006). “Douglas Bader: Fight for the Sky”, p.22, Pen and Sword

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• What is most original in a man's nature is often that which is most desperate. Thus new systems are forced on the world by men who simply cannot bear the pain of living with what is. Creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique. If Hitler had been born in Nazi Germany he wouldn't have been content to enjoy the atmosphere.

  Leonard Cohen

  Pain, Unique, Men

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “Beautiful Losers”, p.77, Vintage

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