Desperate Quotes - Page 6

• I hate gold. It does not pay a dividend, it has no value, and you can't work out what it should or shouldn't be worth," he said. "It is the last refuge of the desperate.

  Jeremy Grantham

  Hate, Work Out, Gold

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• ...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on Heaven is to create hell. In their desperate longing to transcend the disorderliness, friction, and unpredictability that pesters life; in their desire for a fresh start in a tidy habitat, germ-free and secured by angels, religious multitudes are gambling the only life they may ever have on a dark horse in a race that has no finish line.

  Tom Robbins

  Life, Religious, Horse

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.356, Bantam

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• If you think someone's trying too hard, that's the worst thing they can do. To me, it's just desperate, never funny and never witty. It's kind of really old hat because just being shocking isn't enough. It has to change how you think about something. It has to startle you. It has to make you look at something and reconsider whether you're right. That's the whole point.

  John Waters

  Witty, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.thehippocollective.com

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• I see that in the future, things that we have lost in the past will be recovered. There's a search for those things, a search for spirituality, for nature, for the goddess religions, for family and human bonding. All that has been lost in this industrial era. People are in desperate need of those things. I don't think the world will destroy itself in a nuclear cataclysm. On the contrary, we have the capacity to save ourselves and save the planet, and we will use it.

  Isabel Allende

  Past, Thinking, People

  "“Skirting the Brink: America’s Leading Thinkers and Activists Confide Their Views of Our Predicament”". Interview with Bob Baldock and Dennis Bernstein, www.motherjones.com. September 1994.

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• When you don't know where you fit inside the home and you're young and you're desperate to fit in somewhere, I'd figured where I would fit outside the home. So I made some obviously bad decisions about who I hung out with and the things that I did.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Home, Decision, Fit

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• There are people in America who are absolutely desperate right now, who have no means to support their families, who have no opportunities to better themselves or their education - and they're not that different from the farmers and working-class people that I visited when I went to Kenya with Oxfam.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Mean, Opportunity, Class

  Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2011.

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• Communism wasn't a word that I thought of when I went to Cuba. The original Fidelistas were not Communists. They were graduate students at the university and law students. After the Fidelistas took over, they went to Washington and tried to get support from the U.S. government, which turned them down. They were in a desperate political and economic situation, so they took the offer from the Soviet Union. Communism was a matter of necessity.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Government, Law, Political

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 1, 2012.

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• When one is engaged in a desperate defense of one's world and its values, nothing can be given away, any breach in the walls might be fatal, every point must be defended to the death.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Wall, Defense, World

  Isaiah Berlin (2013). “The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas”, p.161, Princeton University Press

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• With irrigation channels and rivers running dry and municipal water storage dams reaching record lows, California's politicians are getting desperate for solutions to a drought that seemingly has no end.

  Marc Levine

  Running, California, Rivers

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• When you start reading nonfiction books about piracy, you realize that it's actually just a history of desperate people.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Reading, People

  "Lemony Snicket Walks the Plank". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. January, 2015.

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• After a desperate fight, to know to congratulate your opponent, if he has beaten you, to shake his hand and go for a drink with him, in my eyes these things are particularly important.

  Yannick Noah

  Eye, Fighting, Hands

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• Poverty breeds a lot of things. When people are desperate and trying to survive, they do drastic things.

  Damian Marley

  People, Trying, Poverty

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I think people are a mixture of everything. I like desperate characters because they do things that most of us normally wouldn't do. If a character is a scoundrel or a liar you think you know them, but then I can bring some emotion to them and they become much fuller than you ever imagined. So what I try to do is have a story where you don't quite know where it's going, and characters who you don't quite know where they're going.

  Richard Shepard

  Liars, Character, Thinking

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• For people who are desperate and searching, sexuality on the Internet offers an incredible release.

  Volkmar Sigusch

  People, Internet, Incredibles

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• I know too much; I've seen people at their worst, at their most desperate and selfish, and this knowledge makes me wary. So I am learning to pretend, to smile, to nod, to display empathy I do not feel. I am learning to pass, to look like everyone else, even though I feel broken inside.

  Christina Baker Kline

  Selfish, Broken Inside, People

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• The Test arena is a place I have been desperate to get back to, it is the pinnacle of the sport

  James Taylor

  Sports, Tests, Arena

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• Some people, when desperate, retreat to pills or hard liquor. I nap.

  Brock Clarke

  Naps, People, Pills

  Brock Clarke (2011). “Exley”, p.32, Algonquin Books

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• Who could be more desperate than filmmakers?

  Steven Shainberg

  Filmmaker

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• If you're going to make a desperate, hopeless act of defiance you should make it a good one.

  Ann Leckie

  Hopeless, Should, Defiance

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• Loneliness is something we [all people] go through. We go through mourning and longing. We make some bad choices sometimes because we're desperate for something, and that's okay. That's part of life.

  Jennifer Lee

  Loneliness, People, Choices

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• When things are really desperate and hopeless and you can't do anything about this, and there's a sense that something must be done, that is something usually leads to the U.N.

  Kofi Annan

  Done, Hopeless

  "Kofi Annan on 40 Years Trying to End War, Promote Peace at the United Nations". "PBS Newshour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. September 17, 2012.

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• The rich nations of the world are acting like ancient usurers, lending money to the desperate poor on terms that cannot possibly be met and, thus, steadily acquiring more and more control over the lives and assets of the poor.

  William Greider

  Acting, World, Ancient

  William Greider (1998). “One World, Ready Or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism”, p.282, Simon and Schuster

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• God does not answer our desperate questionings; he simply gives us himself.

  Francois Mauriac

  Giving, Doe, Answers

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• So they were desperately in love and being desperately in love involves a desperate existence.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Existence

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• People hate it when they're tickled because laughter is not pleasant, if it goes on too long. I think it's a desperate sort of convulsion in desperate circumstances, which helps a little.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Laughter, Hate, Thinking

  Public Radio International Interview, October 2006.

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