Desperate Quotes - page 2

A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader. (Daisaku Ikeda)
Obama was quite serious when he said he was going to change the world. And now he has a national crisis, a personal mandate, a pliant Congress, a desperate public -- and, at his disposal, the greatest pot of money in galactic history. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love. View quote
Delmore Schwartz
From Toscanini I learnt the essential and desperate seriousness of making music. View quote
Georg Solti
As to what happened next, it is possible to maintain that the hand of heaven was involved, and also possible to say that when men are desperate no one can stand up to them. View quote
Xenophon
I am desperate for change - now - not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now. We don't have time to wait. View quote
Michelle Obama
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. View quote
Shania Twain
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. View quote
Naomi Watts
If a huge number of people call for change, the government will have to react. If you want to avoid uprisings, or demonstrations, you need to respond to the peoples desperate need for change. View quote
Mohamed ElBaradei
A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy. View quote
Guy Fawkes
We would be deceiving both ourselves and the people if we concealed from the masses the necessity of a desperate, bloody war of extermination, as the immediate task of the coming revolutionary action. (Vladimir Lenin)
Thou'rt slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell; And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well And better than thy stroke. View quote
John Donne
Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith - a desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will - but faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world - faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity. View quote
George F. Kennan
When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho. View quote
Sarah Jessica Parker
Every morning I wake up with the news of bloodshed. I feel my body, desperate to know whether I'm still alive. View quote
Suman Pokhrel
The Ogre does what ogres can, Deeds quite impossible for Man, But one prize is beyond his reach, The Ogre cannot master Speech: About a subjugated plain, Among its desperate and slain, The Ogre stalks with hands on hips, While drivel gushes from his lips. View quote
W. H. Auden
Perhaps randomness is not merely an adequate description for complex causes that we cannot specify. Perhaps the world really works this way, and many events are uncaused in any conventional sense of the word. Perhaps our gut feeling that it cannot be so reflects only our hopes and prejudices, our desperate striving to make sense of a complex and confusing world, and not the ways of nature. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
I think mortality makes you live a fuller existence. When I was a kid I was scared of death, and maybe that's what made me desperate to get the most out of life. View quote
Dolph Lundgren
There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand others. They will create subtler, wilder methods, methods that are absolutely desperate. Nature herself is fundamentally antisocial, it is only by a usurpation of powers that the organized body of society opposes the natural inclination of humanity. View quote
Antonin Artaud
Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all hope. There is no more solace for you in this world. The world lives off your rotting flesh. View quote
Antonin Artaud
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)
The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen. View quote
Alice Walker
There is now a desperate need for a London-wide left caucus of those interested in the GLC and local councils so that we can compare and discuss what is happening in each borough. View quote
Ken Livingstone
I know he was desperate. That makes people do all kinds of crazy things. View quote
Suzanne Collins
I'm not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself. I can't join your gang: you'd think I was a phony and I'd know it. View quote
Vivian Stanshall