Top 1200 Desperate Situations Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

When there's fear people act out in desperate ways.

Deep inside, I am desperate to do comedy.

I think I'm probably a little too desperate to be successful.

Who could be more desperate than filmmakers?

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

(About Love)The most important thing in life, and you can't tell whether people have it or not. Surely this is wrong? Surely people who are happy should look happy, at all times, no matter how much money they have or how uncomfortable their shoes are or how little their child is sleeping; and people who are doing OK but have still not found their soul-mate should look, I don't know, anxious, like Billy Crystal in When Harry Met Sally; and people who are desperate should wear something, a yellow ribbon maybe, which would allow them to be identified by similar desperate people.

Giving back has to do with the way I was brought up and the fact that I've traveled widely and seen terrible situations in the world. To sleep well at night, those of us who are in a position to help must address these situations. I'd get far greater satisfaction out of, say, walking into a hospital I'd built in South Africa than I would by sitting on a beach. I'm fortunate enough to be in a position to make a difference, and I don't want to waste that. I suspect I was also lucky to have parents who drove me from a young age.

The term itself--my life--is a desperate overstatement.

We are in desperate need of a return to limited, constitutional government.

Sometimes that's all life is... One desperate act after another.

Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.

I'd be smiling if I wasn't so desperate. I'd be patient if I had the time.

One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.

What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.

I am such a desperate man headed into a midlife crisis.

The desperate usually succeed because they have nothing to lose.

In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.

I've worked with the greatest actors, and they're all gone. This is what's so desperate to me.

In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock.

I'm sorry if this all seems a little rushed and desperate. It is.

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate.

The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.

Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it.

A thing can be true and still be desperate folly.

The Kingdom of Heaven is not for the well-meaning: it is for the desperate.

A field trip. You interested in doing something dangerous, and possibly illegal?" Does it involve underage girls, broken curfews and soorte4d fruit toppings?" I dropped the empty can into the recycling bin and leaned against the kitchen peninsula, grinning like an idiot. "Two of the three. And I could probably scrounge up some strawberry jam, if you're desperate." "I'm never desperate," Tod said, only his voice hadn't come from my phone. I whirled around to see the reaper standing behind me, still holding his cell. "But for the record, I prefer apricot." "Yuck. Nobody likes apricot jam.

People always are desperate to have others acknowledge that they are different.

The last thing you want is to be desperate in Hollywood.

Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best

Whenever you go up 2-0, you understand that teams are going to be desperate.

There is nobody more terrible than the desperate.

But a desperate heart will seduce the mind.

At the beginning, you should only hire when you have a desperate need to.

The end of a dissolute life is a desperate death.

I've never been desperate to please my father.

I was just the youngest in the family, and most in desperate need of attention.

I'm not one of those people desperate to get in the ring again.

We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff.

Avoid People and Situations That Upset You. Those things, people, situations, and experiences you dont like--avoid them. Stay away. Walk away. Do something else. Some might call this cowardly. I call it smart. The world is brimming with things, people, and experiences. We will never experience all of them if we live to be 10,000. So why not associate with the ones that naturally please you?

Once a week, I am a very desperate man.

I can't remember ever being desperate for money, even when I didn't have any.

Single gals aren't all a bunch of Bridget Joneses, desperate for love.

Logos are the bleating of the insecure, desperate for acceptance by the chronically shallow.

You will be surprised to learn how some very knowing people have misunderstood Plotto. On glancing at it, some of the intelligentia have jumped at the false conclusion, that Plotto is a dictionary of situations, a mechanism that yields a cut and dried plot by the mere use of a thumb index. Plotto, to the contrary, merely suggests the situations for the plot, explains what is to be done through Purpose and Obstacle and even offers suggestions as to the way in which it should be done.

I'm desperate to learn how to sail a boat.

Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best.

People get desperate when they're backed into a corner.

I am absolutely desperate to win a Super Bowl.

If I like hardcore straight-edge punk music, gentle psychedelic folk music, gangster rap, indie-rock with a lot of guitar pedals, and I find inspiration from all these things in different songs of mine, shouldn't I be allowed to make any of this kind of music that I want? And it's the same for the comic books, why should I only make autobiographical stories? Or only political stories? Or only superhero stories? Or only comedy stories? I am a bit creatively desperate, when I sit with a pen and paper I am desperate for ANY idea that makes me excited, I don't care what kind of idea it is!

In this desperate way, I started many a comedy.

The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.

My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid.

The tragedy of today is that the situation is desperate but the saints are not.

While I was doing 'Desperate Housewives,' I actually watched it from the beginning.

There's this huge number of desperate people.

A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy.

I grew up desperate to be a professional footballer and I was willing to do anything to be one.

A LeBron James team is never desperate.

When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful.