Desperate Quotes - page 4

Nations, like individuals, cannot become desperate gamblers with impunity. Punishment is sure to overtake them sooner or later. (Charles Mackay)
Marriage is a desperate thing. View quote
John Selden
It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true motions of particular bodies from the apparent; because the parts of that immovable space, in which those motions are performed, do by no means come under the observation of our senses. Yet the thing is not altogether desperate; for we have some arguments to guide us, partly from the apparent motions, which are the differences of the true motions; partly from the forces, which are the causes and effects of the true motions. View quote
Isaac Newton
A thing can be true and still be desperate folly, Hazel. View quote
Richard Adams
The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style. View quote
Frank Auerbach
Oh- and grab the plastic bag over by my suitcase." I slug down the last of the coffee and get up. The bag contains panty hose. I put them on her desk. "They're for you." "You want me to look homeless, desperate, but also kind of fabulous? View quote
Holly Black
Each one of us can do a good deed, every day and everywhere. In hospitals in desperate need of volunteers, in homes for the elderly where our parents and grandparents are longing for a smile, a listening ear, in the street, in our workplaces and especially at home. View quote
Shari Arison
I'm desperate to work again. I've often had those periods, but two years was the longest. View quote
Charlotte Gainsbourg
The only people who are desperate to go on the show are people we're desperate not to have on the show. View quote
Graham Norton
She stays in the same spot, anchored by the profound, desperate loneliness of a bad relationship. View quote
David Levithan
The future is itself a story, and predictions are stories we tell to amaze ourselves, to give hope to the desperate, to jolt the complacent. (David Remnick)
Fang snorted in disbelief. "On one hand, we have a mythical nice family that wants to adopt me. On the other, we have a gang of insane scientists desperate to do genetic experiments on innocent children. Guess which hand I get dealt? View quote
James Patterson
I've never met anyone who wanted to be a terrorist. They are desperate people. View quote
John Perkins
Human beings have hope. Not matter how desperate things are, they convince themselves that they can change things for the better." - John Gregory (Clash of the Demons) View quote
Joseph Delaney
When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can. View quote
Julian Fellowes
Sometimes I do readings and people can't stop laughing, but I'm reading about pretty tragic things. I think Soviet humor is a desperate humor, rather typical of very different nations, of Jewish people, Ukrainians, and of course, Russians. It's despair - just keep laughing, until you are dead. View quote
Alina Bronsky
The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire! To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire...driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there's no sign of love in sight! View quote
Carson McCullers
But desperate people find courage. View quote
Ken Follett
I only really cast people who are desperate to be in it - who were dying to be in it, whose talent I believed in and were dead ready to do the work that was necessary. View quote
Kenneth Branagh
I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career. View quote
Lisa Bonet
You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman. (Lisa See)
Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press. View quote
William Weld
I read that book 'Fat is a Feminist Issue', got a bit desperate halfway through and ate it. View quote
Jo Brand
Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best. View quote
Bob Geldof
Legends were not only for the desperate. Legends were for the brave. (Soren) View quote
Kathryn Lasky