Top 1200 Desperate Quotes & Sayings - Page 5
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Last updated on April 22, 2025.
I guess the GOP may be more desperate than I thought to call somebody like me.
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.
She stays in the same spot, anchored by the profound, desperate loneliness of a bad relationship.
I became very attentive to customers because I was desperate not to have people leave and never come back.
He could shred me so easily. A few words, a desperate look, and I was cut wide open.
I always thought just because I love football, it doesn't necessarily mean I'm desperate to manage.
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.
Atletico fans were always so desperate for us to win; it was like a religion to them.
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.
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.
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.
I'm not a big fan of fantasy; I'd rather watch 'Desperate Housewives' than 'Game of Thrones.'
When you start reading nonfiction books about piracy, you realize that it's actually just a history of desperate people.
This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property ordoes itself and leads the will to desperate undertakings.
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.
I read that book Fat is a Feminist issue, got a bit desperate halfway through and ate it.
The self-assured strength that grows from knowing that we already have what we need makes us gentle, because we are no longer desperate.
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.
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.
When you're desperate, it's good on defense because your hair should be on fire, but it's bad on offense.
Prison, blood, death, create enthusiasts and martyrs, and bring forth courage and desperate resolution.
We need books...because we are all, in the private kingdoms of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend.
I'm desperate to work again. I've often had those periods, but two years was the longest.
The other day, I was so desperate for a beer, I snuck into the football stadium and ate the dirt under the bleachers.
Life is a process by which a few desperate longings morph into a thousand meaningless wants.
People get upset when I say most of the time serials are for those who are desperate for work.
I read that book 'Fat is a Feminist Issue', got a bit desperate halfway through and ate it.
Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.
Star-crossed lovers desperate to get home together. Two hearts beating as one. Romance.
People today are desperate for leaders, but they want to be influenced only by individuals they can trust, persons of good character.
We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth.
I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.
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.
Even before the Windrush scandal, it was clear Britain's immigration system was in desperate need of reform.
Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.
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.
We have real cliched ideas of what prison life is like. It is not a happy place. It's a desperate, sad situation.
I was desperate for something to read that dealt realistically with teenage life, and I thought others might be, too.
The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God's joke on humanity. It is man's last desperate stand at superintendency.
The books weren't exactly Linnet's general reading fare, but a desperate woman will read anything.
In our most desperate times, people going through true hardships use humor to cope.
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.
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.
At the end of a career you're desperate more than ever for medals, grabbing as much as you can as you go.
A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail.
Along with a livable wage, many parents are desperate for quality affordable child care.
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.
I truly believe that fundamentalism stems from unemployment. A man without a job is desperate; he doesn't want to live anyway.
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.
despite all our desperate, eternal attempts to separate, contain and mend, categories always leak.
For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.
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.
During the desperate depression of the 1980s, there were no oil and gas companies without net operating losses.
It's still about the women. It's not called Desperate Plumber. People are more interested in cat fights.
Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained.
God does not answer our desperate questionings; he simply gives us himself.
I have always been a reader. I was one of those kids desperate to learn. I would read anything.
Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.
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.
