Desperate Quotes

Haiti is in desperate poverty.
Pat Robertson

Business practices and how we treat the planet are also in desperate need of re-humanization.
Simon Mainwaring

Business, Treat, Planet

There are no desperate situations, there are only desperate people.
Heinz Guderian

Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.
Charles Mackay

Money, Become, Again

Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen.
John Podhoretz

Nothing, May, Happen

In New York, everyone's desperate for success, desperate for money and desperate to be accepted, but in London they're more laid back about things like that.
David Bailey

Success, Money, Everyone

For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.
Thomas Frank

Education, Today, Student

In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
Jesse Jackson

Tough, Times, Goes

There's something very addictive about people pleasing. It's a thought pattern and a habit that feels really, really good until it becomes desperate.
Anne Hathaway

Good, Thought, Until

Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion, say, or Obama's birthplace - tend to come when an opponent is desperate and can't sell himself.
Jon Meacham

Religion, Himself, Identity

Are we not all desperate one way or another?
Taylor Caldwell

For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or Peshawar as romantics with little chance of more than symbolic victories, however bloody and brutal. That gives both the Middle East and the West a small and distant hope of security.
James Buchan

Hope, Small, Chance

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

Political, Find, Vote

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

Work, Self, After

I do not believe the picture that some people paint of Scottish towns dependent on welfare. Every time I come here, I meet people who are determined to get into work. Who, with the right help are desperate to get off benefits, support their family and set an example for their children.
Iain Duncan Smith

Work, Family, Time

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

Work, Good, Job

I have become increasingly used to the Tory party mimicking our policies and phrases in a desperate effort to pretend to their members they are still Eurosceptic.
Nigel Farage

Become, Effort, Used

Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best.
Bob Geldof

Best, Often, Mankind

My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run by the mob. The only gay people he'd met when I came out to him were corpses.
Dan Savage

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

Matter, Film, Director

'Lean on Pete' is the story of a boy and his horse, but it is never heart-warming - it ranges in tone from desperate to merely painful - and, while fascinating, it is never entertaining or redemptive. But if you want an unadorned portrait of American life (at least in some places) at the beginning of the 21st century, this is the book for you.
Jane Smiley

Life, Book, American

I'm less desperate now to express what's inside me, that's true - I act these days because it keeps me awake and interested, an eternal student.
Emmanuelle Beart

True, Days, Less

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

Behavior, Kinds

I've sometimes thought that it's only by recalling that desperate devotion my kids once felt for me that I can maintain my own desperate devotion in the face of their adolescent sneering.
Ayelet Waldman

Thought, Sometimes, Kids

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

Though, Lying, Hunger

There's always somebody older, richer, more desperate than you.
Kirstie Alley

Older, Somebody, Richer

For a long time, I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was desperate to find something that fit me and I just decided that if I could organically make a professional living out of the things that interested me, then I would be a happy person.
Padma Lakshmi

Time, Happy, Long

I don't want to say, 'This is where Im going to be in five years and Im going to get there no matter what.' I want to leave it open. I'm not a desperate actress dying to star in a B movie in a bikini.
Brooke Burke

Matter, Leave, Dying

'Desperate Housewives' is an ensemble cast, where I played a tertiary character. I made a lot of great friends, but that show didn't keep me very busy.
Nathan Fillion

Great, Character, Busy

Desperate affairs require desperate measures.
Horatio Nelson

Affairs, Measures, Require

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