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A thing can be true and still be desperate folly. -- Richard Adams
A thing can be true and still be desperate folly, Hazel. -- Richard Adams
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live ... -- May Sarton
You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman. -- Lisa See
I learnt not to be desperate in bad times, and I am learning not to be bullish when times are good. -- John Elkann
You know how many reasons we have to be desperate and despairing, the world is not learning anything. We have seen that. -- Elie Wiesel
Yes, testosterone-sodden young men too unattractive to get a woman in this world might be desperate enough to go for 72 private virgins in the next. -- Richard Dawkins
Who could be more desperate than filmmakers? -- Steven Shainberg
A monk's extraordinary patience can be a hindrance to desperate decision-making. -- Harsha Bhogle
I think I'm probably a little too desperate to be successful. -- Howard Stern
Desperate? That can be a justification for all kinds of behavior. -- Jessica Walter
Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl. -- Claire Danes
I might be needy, competitive and desperate but it's far better than being wet. -- Jenny Eclair
My mother's father was a doctor, and she desperately wanted to be a doctor. -- Ruth Reichl
I'm not desperate but I know that some day I'll be the coach again of some team. -- Diego Maradona
For the moment I prefer to be a beautiful woman of my age than try desperately to look 30. -- Demi Moore
I've been the type of father who tries desperately to be perfect but doesn't succeed all the time. -- Max von Sydow
I used desperately to want to be a brooding hero from literature, but I'm optimistic, healthy and fair-haired. -- Nick Harkaway
I so desperately wanted to be Mr. Somebody. Instead, I was the little brother, included to a point. -- Charlie Sheen
As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories. -- Talulah Riley
When I was about 5 I think, I desperately wanted to be a pirate and have the hat and everything. -- Keira Knightley
I think the whole idea of me was that I wasn't going to be but that I wanted to be, desperately. -- Chris Elliott
I think a lot of people who feel as though they desperately want to be married oftentimes simply desperately want to have a wedding. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
In New York, everyone's desperate for success, desperate for money and desperate to be accepted, but in London they're more laid back about things like that. -- David Bailey
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. -- Tommy Lee Jones
When 'Desperate Housewives' ends, I think my girls will be about the kindergarten age. I will be so happy to be there for them through that huge transition. -- Marcia Cross
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. -- Henry David Thoreau
Sequels are desperate. -- Adam McKay
Necessity urges desperate measures. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Desperate affairs require desperate remedies. -- Carl von Clausewitz
Desperate affairs require desperate measures. -- Horatio Nelson
Desperate times breed desperate measures -- William Shakespeare
Desperate ills need desperate remedies. -- Agatha Christie
But desperate people find courage. -- Ken Follett
Tempt not a desperate man -- William Shakespeare
We celebrities are desperate pigs. -- Penn Jillette
Haiti is in desperate poverty. -- Pat Robertson
Marriage is a desperate thing. -- John Selden
Hope is a desperate man's currency. -- Paul Tremblay
Desperate is not a sexual preference. -- R. K. Milholland
In desperate position, you must fight. -- Sun Tzu
Desperate courage makes One a majority. -- Andrew Jackson
I never let myself get desperate. -- Kim Alexis
Desperate times call for desperate analogies. -- John Diamond
Haste is needful in a desperate case. -- William Shakespeare
The term itself--my life--is a desperate overstatement. -- Don DeLillo
A LeBron James team is never desperate. -- LeBron James
There's this huge number of desperate people. -- Lloyd Alexander
For a desperate disease a desperate cure. -- Michel de Montaigne
A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy. -- Guy Fawkes
I am desperate to do a comedy now. -- Tom Hiddleston
God doesn't answer prayer, He answers desperate prayer! -- Leonard Ravenhill
Satan is hopelessly desperate as Jesus waits patiently. -- Felix Wantang
There is nobody more terrible than the desperate. -- Alexander Suvorov
I've never been desperate to please my father. -- Rebecca Hall
We don't need to respond with desperate violence. -- Dalai Lama
But a desperate heart will seduce the mind. -- Mitch Albom
That isn't a desperate act. That's a PLAN. -- James A. Owen
I'm desperate to start a career in music. -- Katie Price
Deep inside, I am desperate to do comedy. -- David Suchet
When I am not desperate, I am worthless. -- Ivo Andric
The Hallows, the Hallows. A desperate man's dream! -- J. K. Rowling
People get desperate when they're backed into a corner. -- Seohyun
Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage. -- William Blake
There's always somebody older, richer, more desperate than you. -- Kirstie Alley
When there's fear people act out in desperate ways. -- Robert Hood
I am absolutely desperate to win a Super Bowl. -- Daniel Snyder
Are we not all desperate one way or another? -- Taylor Caldwell
Once a week, I am a very desperate man. -- Garry Trudeau
Like your the ocean and he's desperate to drown. -- Michelle Hodkin
In this desperate way, I started many a comedy. -- Charlie Chaplin
The desperate usually succeed because they have nothing to lose. -- Jodi Picoult
Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best -- Bob Geldof
There are no desperate situations, there are only desperate people. -- Heinz Guderian
Sometimes that's all life is... One desperate act after another. -- Terry Goodkind
Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
I have a desperate longing to have a desperate longing -- Joss Whedon
The end of a dissolute life is a desperate death. -- Wilfred Bion
Can you imagine a silence so desperate to be heard? -- Richard Jackson
In a year of re-election he was desperate to impress. -- Rod Stewart
There arc no such things as desperate situations. Only desperate men. -- Adolf Hitler
Somewhere between love and hate lies confusion, misunderstanding and desperate hope. -- Shannon L. Alder
Like carnivores to carnal pleasures As are we to desperate measures -- Harvey Danger
We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff. -- Stephen Malkmus
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. -- Henry David Thoreau
When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face. -- Robert Burns
There was always an opportunity in crisis, however desperate things seemed. -- Gemma Malley
We are in desperate need of a well-done romantic lesbian comedy. -- Jill Bennett
In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest. -- Livy
Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about. -- Katharine Hepburn
In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid. -- Al Purdy
The best evangelists, the best preachers, the best teachers are desperate people. -- Tullian Tchividjian
From Toscanini I learnt the essential and desperate seriousness of making music. -- Georg Solti
Diseases desperate grown By desperate appliances are relieved, Or not at all. -- William Shakespeare
As lives go, I'll take the quietly desperate over the radically bipolar. -- John Green
It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate. -- Thomas Jefferson
People care and are willing to help me out my desperate circumstances. -- Sam Worthington
Some people, when desperate, retreat to pills or hard liquor. I nap. -- Brock Clarke
Single gals aren't all a bunch of Bridget Joneses, desperate for love. -- Anita Hamilton
God does not answer our desperate questionings; he simply gives us himself. -- Francois Mauriac
I'm not one of those people who are desperate to get married. -- Kelly Osbourne
The end of a dissolute life is most commonly a desperate death. -- Bion of Smyrna
What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once. -- Virginia Woolf
Superheroes were born in the minds of people desperate to be rescued. -- Jodi Picoult
Nothing is so dangerous for our security as large groups of desperate people. -- Marianne Williamson
This Congress is out of control and in desperate need of adult supervision. -- Jeff Flake
The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people. -- Cornel West
I'm sentimental--I know. I'm desperate and silly--I know that too. Oh, help me! -- Anne Frank
Desperate, yet no longer alone after that day, because we'd found each other. -- Suzanne Collins
Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press. -- William Weld
The desperate hope that the patient will be healed... That's the last treatment. -- Choi Woo-shik
The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness. -- David Foster Wallace
Star-crossed lovers desperate to get home together. Two hearts beating as one. Romance. -- Suzanne Collins
When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly. -- Samuel Johnson
Nothing more or less than the deepest, most desperate desire of our hearts. -- J. K. Rowling
Legends were not only for the desperate. Legends were for the brave. (Soren) -- Kathryn Lasky
I'm sorry if this all seems a little rushed and desperate. It is. -- Chuck Palahniuk
I've always said that people are desperate to find meaning in their lives. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
Anyone who is desperate or alone will agree there is comfort in routine. -- Simon Van Booy

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