Desperate Quotes - Page 4

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

  Jessica Walter

  Kind, Behavior, Justification

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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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• There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and respectability in a desperate struggle, waged partly by cunning and partly by violence, at once sick and ferocious, in which it attacks the prevailing social order with the pin-pricks of vice and the hammer-blows of crime.

  Victor Hugo

  Depression, Struggle, Blow

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• I really feel like life will dictate itself. You should allow it to unfold as naturally as possible. Just go with the flow. When you're really desperate, you say a few prayers and hope for the best. That's the way I've always lived my life.

  Shania Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Prayer

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

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• With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie.

  Nora Ephron

  Children, Health, Important

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• I just feel incredibly lucky to be employed when there are so many actors and actresses who are not employed. That's why, you know, I sometimes feel desperate, in case I'm not going to be cast again.

  Judi Dench

  Lucky, Actors, Actresses

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• I think it's still hard for me to turn down work if it's really good because for so many years I was desperate to get a job and couldn't, so I think it's anathema for me to turn down work if I think it's really good.

  Matt Damon

  Jobs, Thinking, Years

  "Matt Damon - Exclusive Interview - The Bourne Supremacy". Female First Interview, www.femalefirst.co.uk. March 2, 2005.

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• This is how God works. He puts people in positions where they are desperate for his power, and then he shows his provision in ways that display his greatness

  David Platt

  Faith, God, Christian

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Real Christians revel in desperate ventures for Christ, expecting from God great things and attempting the same with exhilaration.

  Charles Studd

  Christian, Real, Venture

  "The Chocolate Soldier". Book by C. T. Studd, 1990.

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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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• Men felt a chill in their hearts; a damp in their minds. In a desperate effort to snuggle their feelings into some sort of warmth,one subterfuge was tried after anothersentences swelled, adjectives multiplied, lyrics became epics.

  Virginia Woolf

  Heart, Epic, Men

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• The tragedy is that many of us are living desperate Christian life. Sunday comes and we get some strength, and then we lose some on Monday; a good deal is gone by Tuesday and we wonder whether we have anything left. On Wednesday it has all gone and then we exist. Or perhaps refreshment comes in some other way, some meeting we attend, some friends we meet. Now that is the old order of things, that is not the new. He puts a well within us. We are not always drawing from somewhere outside. The well, the spring, goes on springing up from within into everlasting life.

  Martyn

  Christian, Monday, Spring

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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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• 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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• 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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• I ain't never been in no college with famous people. I was a drifter for a while. I just was desperate to fit in with a group. Really, I was swimming. I was lost, treading water, trying to find my way. I wanted to play football. It didn't work out. I didn't really know what I wanted until I found acting in a theater department, and then everything just fell into place, and I had a passion about something. Then, I started living my life.

  John Goodman

  Football, Passion, Swimming

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I am absolutely desperate to win a Super Bowl.

  Daniel Snyder

  Winning, Wealth, Super Bowl

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• We are loaded down with too many good things, more than we could ever need, while others are desperate for a small loaf. The good things we cling to are more than money; we hoard our resources, our gifts, our time, our families, out friends....how ludicrous it is to hold on to the abundance God has given us and merely repeat the words 'thank you'.

  Francis Chan

  Needs, Abundance, Good Things

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.66, David C Cook

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