Top 1200 Desperate Situations Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

Along with a livable wage, many parents are desperate for quality affordable child care.

You know how many reasons we have to be desperate and despairing, the world is not learning anything. We have seen that.

Tony Hadley is a big Conservative. He is desperate to become a Lord. He's jealous of me.

A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail.

I always thought just because I love football, it doesn't necessarily mean I'm desperate to manage.

When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.

I have always been a reader. I was one of those kids desperate to learn. I would read anything.

Sometimes I do 'So Desperate' solo in the middle of the set. I really love to sing that song.

When you're desperate, it's good on defense because your hair should be on fire, but it's bad on offense.

Nothing more or less than the deepest, most desperate desire of our hearts.

Paradise is to be the ultimate instrument, fulfilling God's desperate intent that we love each other.

The Test arena is a place I have been desperate to get back to, it is the pinnacle of the sport

I'm desperate to work again. I've often had those periods, but two years was the longest.

The problem with faerie gifts is that they always come with a price, which is why they are made by the desperate and the foolish.

You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.

The destruction of the world is the last, almost desperate attempt to save myself from being crushed by it

In my experience what I'm hearing from people now is that they're just desperate to hear about something else.

The other day, I was so desperate for a beer, I snuck into the football stadium and ate the dirt under the bleachers.

Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.

We've poisoned our planet to a desperate degree. We have no idea of how severe the toxification is.

That was devastating to me: how a bright, energetic kid could turn doomed and desperate.

I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.

I'm desperate to have children. I am chomping at the bit. It's a problem. I can't imagine that I will not be a mother.

Social reform is the desperate decision to remove corns from a person suffering from cancer.

Some people are desperate because they don't know how to ask for His grace.

Politicians used to be leaders. Now they follow voters, desperate for a tick in a box.

A nation that turns away from prayer will ultimately find itself in desperate need of it.

We all have a tendency to over generalize our individual experiences. After I've published something, I'll meet someone who says, "I'm Haitian, and I don't know this, so it must not be true." Even if we're talking about a work of fiction. I've gotten very angry myself reading many things about Haiti. We're not a monolithic group; no group is. Also, it's important to keep in mind the genre in which we are writing. Fiction is full of invented stories about exceptional people in exceptional situations. Those situations are not always cheery or celebratory.

I realize how desperate it sounds for me, as a comedian, to ask you to laugh at my jokes.

It's still about the women. It's not called Desperate Plumber. People are more interested in cat fights.

A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.

At the end of a career you're desperate more than ever for medals, grabbing as much as you can as you go.

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.

When I'm desperate for spring produce but nothing has hit the farmstand yet, frozen green peas are a godsend.

God does not answer our desperate questionings; he simply gives us himself.

Star-crossed lovers desperate to get home together. Two hearts beating as one. Romance.

Atletico fans were always so desperate for us to win; it was like a religion to them.

Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes.

Sanctions and workfare make it easier for employers to impose insecure practices on desperate people.

Black is now in desperate need of a good idea. Or, to put it standard chess notation, +-

All the Democrats do is bicker. They're not concerned about the war or the fate of the United States of America. They're desperate characters.

During the desperate depression of the 1980s, there were no oil and gas companies without net operating losses.

The books weren't exactly Linnet's general reading fare, but a desperate woman will read anything.

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

Printing money is the last resort of desperate governments when all other policies have failed.

Desperate, yet no longer alone after that day, because we'd found each other.

I would love to work with everyone, but I am not desperate. Things will happen eventually.

Middle-class people are becoming desperate. It can cause a moral man to break bad.

I'm not a big fan of fantasy; I'd rather watch 'Desperate Housewives' than 'Game of Thrones.'

I completely hold on to the idea that people are eager if not desperate to be told a good story.

She stays in the same spot, anchored by the profound, desperate loneliness of a bad relationship.

I believe that human beings are desperate, always, to belong to something larger than themselves.

He had found my worst weakness: I was one of those people who was desperate to be needed, to matter to someone.

People get upset when I say most of the time serials are for those who are desperate for work.

We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth.

I might be needy, competitive and desperate but it's far better than being wet.

The agency was desperate to get started with the commercials in 1976, but I was working on Star Wars.

He could shred me so easily. A few words, a desperate look, and I was cut wide open.

I swim with all my strength. No superhuman surge, or pony heroics; it's just me at my most desperate.

Life is a process by which a few desperate longings morph into a thousand meaningless wants.