Desperate Quotes - Page 9

• The desperate addict is closer to the heart of grace than the devout moralist.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Heart, Grace, Addict

  Twitter post from Dec 10, 2014

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• I'm making fun of myself and I think I'm making fun of all men in our desperate, desperate attempt to understand the people we're with and hopefully through humor have them understand us.

  Robert Mankoff

  Fun, Men, Thinking

  "'New Yorker' Cartoon Editor Explores What Makes Us Get It". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, www.npr.org. December 4, 2015.

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• At the end of day, people are starving and, if people are starving and thirsty and they need to keep their families alive, people become desperate quickly. There are real world examples of this.

  Eric Kripke

  Real, People, The End Of The Day

  "Showrunner Eric Kripke Talks REVOLUTION, Possibly Revealing the Reason for the Blackout This Season, How Long the Search for Danny Lasts, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 15, 2012.

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• I always felt bad for Mother Teresa. Mother Teresa lived a whole life helping starving children and dying villages, but she could never be declared a saint 'cause she never actually performed a miracle. And it was towards the end, she was desperate to perform a miracle, so she would go up to starving children and go, 'What's that behind your ear? It's a quarter!

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Mother, Children, Miracle

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• I'm not one of those people who are desperate to get married.

  Kelly Osbourne

  People, Married, After Break Up

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• My brother died of cancer two years ago (1998), renal cell carcinoma. He was my only real brother and I didn't know what to do. I'd never been so desperate in my life.

  Quincy Jones

  Brother, Real, Cancer

  "Grammy Legend Award". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 28, 2000.

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• I am definitely less and less interested in music made by people that exist today, people that are living. I just see them as part of the whole stupid process of the music business, desperate (even if they feign indifference) to get noticed, trying to "make it" in the stinking music business, to become "famous" etc, and it disgusts me.

  Michael Gira

  Stupid, People, Trying

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• I see the sharp inequality between how Haitian and Cuban refugees are treated in Florida. Both groups come here because their lives are equally desperate. But on arrival, the Haitians are incarcerated, and some are immediately repatriated, whereas Cubans get to stay and are eligible for citizenship.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Florida, Groups, Citizenship

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

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• Maybe we're all a little too desperate these days for a simple formula to explain how our safe world came unhinged. That, as much as anything, may explain one of the more enduring conspiracy theories of the moment, the notion that we are about to send a quarter of a million American soldiers to war for the sake of Israel.

  Bill Keller

  War, Simple, Israel

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• There are many who believe that 'Marriage is not a word - it is a sentence!' Whether you are indeed 'married' or if you are 'single', I am sure that funny quotes on weddings and marriages always tend to put a wicked smile to the face. It is often said that 'People who are married are often desperate to get out of it and people who are single can't wait to get in!'

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Believe, People, Waiting

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• Anecdote: The East End seemed to be in the grip of yet another economic crisis. ... By the winter of 1933, an army of the unemployed gathered daily outside the dock gates, desperate for a day or 2 paid work. .... There was no cushion, no disaster fund, no stashed savings, no government handouts no syrup that could sweeten the bitter pill of poverty.

  Melanie McGrath

  Army, Winter, Government

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• The interesting thing for me is that everybody felt that I was really wild when i was unbalanced and desperate to communicate something and didn't have a sense of purpose. But I've never been so crazy and wild as I am with my son or as I am now.

  Angelina Jolie

  Crazy, Son, Interesting

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• Iraqi Kurds, out of desperate necessity, have forged one of the most watchful and vigilant anti-terrorist communities in the world. Terrorists from elsewhere just can't operate in that kind of environment. Al Qaeda members who do manage to infiltrate are hunted down like rats. This conservative Muslim society did a better job protecting me from Islamist killers than the U.S. military could do in the Green Zone in Baghdad.

  Michael Totten

  Jobs, Military, Community

  "Iraq Without a Gun" by Michael Totten, www.michaeltotten.com. February 13, 2006.

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• I modeled for a little while in college. I was desperate to travel, and I got scouted, and they wanted me to go to Paris and London for six months. And I discovered that I hated it. I didn't like the expectation to be pretty all the time.

  Mackenzie Davis

  College, Paris, Expectations

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

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• In an attempt to help me move on from my failed marriage, my mom set me up with Jesus Freak. In fact, the stoner hadn't even finished moving out when she told me not to worry, because she already had someone better lined up for me. I was just lonely and desperate enough to endure a four-month celibate long distance relationship with a guy who read 15 chapters of the Bible and prayed for two hours every day and expected me to follow suit. He wanted to give our hypothetical children Bible names and for us to move to Korea to become missionaries.

  Kate Madison

  Mom, Long Distance Relationship, Lonely

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• Economic justice is not just something blacks are crying out for; whites are desperate for it, too. But in the public imagination, the face of poverty is black. In all actuality, the face of poverty is white.

  Darryl Pinckney

  White, Justice, Imagination

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I am absolutely desperate to do an action movie. And not to blow my own trumpet or anything, but I actually think I'm good at it. I did it all. I was really into the routines and the choreography. I used to dance when I was younger, and so I think that came in handy.

  Lily James

  Thinking, Blow, Action

  Source: collider.com

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• I guess they say, "Necessity is the mother of invention" because you have two stark choices when you find yourself in a really desperate situation. You can either fold and cave-in to it or you can become really passionate about getting out of it.

  Viola Davis

  Mother, Two, Desperate Situations

  Source: aalbc.com

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• What happened in the 80's was that all the men died of AIDS. That was a particularly depressing time because so many people passed away and it was a very desperate and lonely time, so I think a lot of people felt that we were somehow, unreceived. Not only by the disease but also by the public image of the disease. It really gave homophobia a real shot in the arm and changed the way people viewed gays, queers. It became an entirely different atmosphere.

  Margaret Cho

  Lonely, Depressing, Real

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• I didn't use anybody's story. I used the context and the structure of the situation. People were so, so desperate to tell their story and begin to digest their experience - like turning it into a story - that after the fist few weeks I could go with a pad and pencil and take notes. People didn't seem at all bothered by that.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  People, Stories, Use

  "Chuck Palahnuik On "Choke"". Interview with Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. September 24, 2008.

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• I never know what all of these guys are thinking, but Marco Rubio sounded desperate, like, We've got a leak in the dike, we got to stop this thing.

  Chris Matthews

  Thinking, Guy, Leaks

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Italy is the fourth-largest economy in Europe and the eighth-largest economy in the world, and its banking system is collapsing. And Germany is desperate. It must maintain its standard of living. It can only do that with exports and Deutsche Bank is very exposed to Italian debt. But so is the rest of Europe.

  George Friedman

  Italian, Europe, Germany

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• If you go around a time when you're hungry, around mealtime, then you have a desperate search to find something to eat and you have this interplay between approach and avoidance. You go in a place, you smell, if it doesn't smell so good you go to the next place, you look at all the people, they're happily eating, and then you choose that place. So having to reconnoiter, having to go on a kind of treasure hunt for food is one of my favorite things.

  Robert Sietsema

  Smell, People, Looks

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• My team of people around me, they were like, 'Don't be waiting and begging for a man.' You know what I'm saying? Like, 'Don't be desperate because you think having a boyfriend is going to be better. It might be harder with your career.' And then I was like, 'Yeah, you're right. I need to enjoy this."

  Meghan Trainor

  Team, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.elle.com

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• My prayer is spasmodic, occasional, desperate. It has a great deal to do with my children's physical well-being - that when they're traveling in the air the plane not crash, things like that.

  Frederick Buechner

  Prayer, Children, Air

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 5, 2006.

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