Desperate Quotes

In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest. (Livy)
Desperate affairs require desperate measures. View quote
Horatio Nelson
Desperate courage makes One a majority. View quote
Andrew Jackson
People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think. View quote
George Carlin
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
There are no desperate situations, there are only desperate people. View quote
Heinz Guderian
writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers. View quote
Charles Bukowski
Beware of desperate steps the darkest day, Lived till tomorrow, will have passed away. View quote
William Cowper
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
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. (Erich Fromm)
Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it. View quote
Federico Fellini
Faith - what is this emotion but a desperate attempt to escape from mind-burning fear? View quote
David Zindell
I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really. View quote
Tennessee Williams
There is something about the literary life that repels me, all this desperate building of castles on cobwebs, the long-drawn acrimonious struggle to make something important which we all know will be gone forever in a few years, the miasma of failure which is to me almost as offensive as the cheap gaudiness of popular success. View quote
Raymond Chandler
Real Christians revel in desperate ventures for Christ, expecting from God great things and attempting the same with exhilaration. View quote
C. T. Studd
The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness. View quote
David Foster Wallace
One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes. View quote
Gustave Flaubert
The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility. View quote
Eric Hoffer
A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people. View quote
Elia Kazan
The tempest was terrible and separated me from my other vessels that night, putting every one of them in desperate straits, with nothing to look forward to but death. Each was certain the others had been destroyed. What man ever born, not excepting Job, who would not have died of despair, when in such weather seeking safety for my son, my brother, shipmates, and myself, we were forbidden access to the land and the harbors which I, by God's will and sweating blood, had won for Spain. (Christopher Columbus)
The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs. View quote
A. B. Yehoshua
I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
Are zombies possible? They're not just possible, they're actual. We're all zombies.* Nobody is conscious - not in the systematically mysterious way that supports such doctrines as epiphenomenalism.*It would be an act of desperate intellectual dishonesty to quote this assertion out of context! View quote
Daniel Dennett
A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader. View quote
Daisaku Ikeda