Top 1200 Desperate Situations Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

When you start reading nonfiction books about piracy, you realize that it's actually just a history of desperate people.

We have real cliched ideas of what prison life is like. It is not a happy place. It's a desperate, sad situation.

You learn from being out of the team, but it makes you desperate for another chance, and when it comes along, you just have to grab it. Don't let go.

People today are desperate for leaders, but they want to be influenced only by individuals they can trust, persons of good character.

His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.

In our most desperate times, people going through true hardships use humor to cope.

I was desperate for something to read that dealt realistically with teenage life, and I thought others might be, too.

You have not wasted your time; you have helped to save the world. We are not buffoons, but very desperate men at war with a vast conspiracy.

All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.

I think a lot of comedians are desperate to show their serious side, but I got that off my chest early on in my career.

Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.

It's no fun to be a struggling young actor. It's a desperate thing, no way to be happy. If you have any alternative, you should take it.

Drawing the desperate and the adrift, Los Angeles has long been the dumping ground of dreams both real and cinematic.

I got my first job as a card-carrying actor in New York in 1967. Before that, I was a very desperate wannabe.

I truly believe that fundamentalism stems from unemployment. A man without a job is desperate; he doesn't want to live anyway.

We need books...because we are all, in the private kingdoms of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend.

What humans do when they're desperate is just an expression of fear. What they do when they feel safe is a better indication of whether or not you can trust them.

Suicide is a desperate attempt to get out of what seems to be an intolerable situation. It appears to be a way of escape from the pain of living.

If you reflect on your life, you may recall times when you couldn't see the value of some person and were tempted to brush him or her off. It takes hindsight to recognize that the very situation you may have seen as an irritating bother turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Wouldn't life be a much more enjoyable and meaningful experience if we decided to look at the difficult people and irritating situations as blessings in disguise? If we look deeply enough, we might see how these experiences as situations that motivate us to grow and change for the better.

I want to be a worshiper with that heart-desperate to be as close to my Savior as possible, and following his every move and step.

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.

So the challenge for us is to live in such a way that we are radically dependent on and desperate for the power that only God can provide.

I read that book 'Fat is a Feminist Issue', got a bit desperate halfway through and ate it.

I became very attentive to customers because I was desperate not to have people leave and never come back.

despite all our desperate, eternal attempts to separate, contain and mend, categories always leak.

And now I understand that truth casts a spell of its own, one I'm not sure of how to hold on to, though I'm desperate to try.

Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained.

The Brothers Grimm came along and I was so desperate for work... Actually I've got to say that I like the movie, I won't apologize for it.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

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

This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property ordoes itself and leads the will to desperate undertakings.

The people that live in my hometown do not walk along the street with smiles on their faces. It is a desperate place, but I got out.

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

You go from these high hopes when you're writing to just a desperate want of not making a complete fool of yourself by the end of it.

I'm too old to be humiliated on reality shows, and I don't want to look desperate. You won't see me on 'Big Brother' or in the jungle.

I'm always slightly embarrassed to meet other actresses of my vintage. We have so little in common. They're all so dedicated. I find - so desperate.

I hate women like that. They're so desperate for the attention of men that they'd willingly betray and harm members of their own sex

At this crucial time in our lives, when everything is so desperate, when every day is a matter of survival, I don't think you can help but be involved.

The self-assured strength that grows from knowing that we already have what we need makes us gentle, because we are no longer desperate.

Every morning I wake up with the news of bloodshed. I feel my body, desperate to know whether I'm still alive.

The devastation of neoliberalism is so multi-fold, whether it's violence against women or desperate economic inequality or the destruction of the planet.

Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.

There's a lot of good midfielders all desperate to play for their country and all I can do when I get called up is prove that I deserve to be there.

Even before the Windrush scandal, it was clear Britain's immigration system was in desperate need of reform.

I guess the GOP may be more desperate than I thought to call somebody like me.

Everyone is so desperate to get attention for their project, they will do almost anything, and the corporate world has always encouraged this.

The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God's joke on humanity. It is man's last desperate stand at superintendency.

Wherever you may seek solitude, men will ferret you out and compel you to belong to their desperate company of oddfellows.

The void is a mouth crying to be filled, a blank mind aching for thought, a cavity desperate for shape. What is not implies what is.

Crimes are more often committed out of fear than wickedness. People live frightened, desperate lives.

I planned so well for my post-'Cosby Show' life that I don't have to make desperate acting choices that conflict with what my values.

I'm desperate to work in football. I could make a lot more money doing other things but this is what I want to do.

Many who have voted for the AfD, or who intend to do so, aren't doing so because they are dyed-in-the-wool enemies of democracy. Rather, they are desperate.

I try to have all my characters have a sense of humor. To me the most interesting thing is a desperate character. I think desperation is funny.

I read that book Fat is a Feminist issue, got a bit desperate halfway through and ate it.

Prison, blood, death, create enthusiasts and martyrs, and bring forth courage and desperate resolution.

So with 'There Will Be Blood,' I didn't even really feel like I was adapting a book. I was just desperate to find stuff to write.

Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.

I love that feeling of being in a battle with the new ball, you're getting an opening batsman out while they are desperate to survive.