Desperate Quotes - page 19

Crash and burn All the stars explode tonight How'd you get so desperate? How'd you stay alive? (Courtney Love)
I saw and approached the hungry and desperate mother, as if drawn by a magnet. View quote
Dorothea Lange
Sometimes I think the worst thing is the current 'worldliness' of the whole [art] scene. It is the most deceptive, corrupting, transient thing, full of kicks and fun but so little to do with what it's all really about.... It has to do with our time, a desperate pact about the power of immediate-in-ness. But I feel less and less concerned with this as an issue. So what? No threat. View quote
Helen Frankenthaler
Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation. View quote
Alice Miller (psychologist)
Self-destructive addiction is merely the medium for desperate people to internalize their frustration, resistance, and powerlessness. In other words, we can safely ignore the drug hysteria that periodically sweeps through the United States. Instead we should focus our ethical concerns and political energies on the contradictions posed by the persistence of inner-city poverty in the midst of extraordinary opulence. In the same vein, we need to recognize and dismantle the class- and ethnic-based apartheids that riddle the U. S. landscape. View quote
Philippe Bourgois
Anyone desperate enough for suicide... should be desperate enough to go to creative extremes to solve problems elope at midnight, stow away on the boat to New Zealand and start over, do what they always wanted to do but were afraid to try. View quote
Richard Bach
Desperate Housewives' was a good experience, though, as I got to play the bad guy for once. My only complaint was they had me in a lot of sweaters. View quote
John Barrowman
The world needs this renewal! In so many of our societies, side by side with material prosperity, a spiritual desert is spreading interior emptiness, unnamed fears, a quiet sense of despair. How many of our contemporaries have built broken and empty cisterns in a desperate search for meaning - the ultimate meaning that only love can give?....The Church also needs this renewal! She needs your faith, your idealism and your generosity, so that she can always be young in the Spirit! View quote
Pope Benedict XVI
In this unexpected scenario, the UFO occupants -- despite their obvious technological superiority -- are desperate for both human genetic material and the ability to feel human emotions -- particularly maternal emotions. Unlikely though it may seem, it is possible that the very survival of these extraterrestrials depends upon their success in absorbing chemical and psychological properties received from human abductees. View quote
Budd Hopkins
You can achieve anything in life. It just depends on how desperate you are to achieve it. View quote
Milkha Singh
For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate. (Thomas Frank)
Jumping through any hoop or taking advantage of any desperate situation that comes up just to sell a product is harmful. It is. View quote
Trent Reznor
It is only those who know neither an inner call nor an outer doctrine whose plight is truly desperate; that is to say, most of us today, in this labyrinth without and within the heart. Alas, where is the guide. View quote
Joseph Campbell
I am desperate to do a comedy now. View quote
Tom Hiddleston
Look at the Palestinians with the huge, huge percentage of unemployed. What does that breed? Anyone who's unemployed in the world, you feel there's no meaning and there's a risk that you drift over to something desperate. Yes, we have to tackle the social problems as well. View quote
Hans Blix
Thus evolved some members of the Core-not altruists, but desperate survivalists who realized that the only way ultimately to win their never-ending zero-sum game was to stop the game. And to stop the game they needed to evolve into a species capable of empathy. View quote
Dan Simmons
I have a desperate longing to have a desperate longing. View quote
Joss Whedon
Incredibly, Apple has persuaded Disney, which owns ABC, to make available all episodes of five TV series, including "Lost," "Desperate Housewives" and "That's So Raven." Each show costs $1.99 - an easy impulse buy if you missed an episode. They play back beautifully, with no network logo in the corner, no yearlong wait for the DVD, and no commercials. (One 43-minute "hour" of TV takes 12 minutes to download with my cable modem, and about two minutes to transfer to the iPod over its U.S.B. 2.0 cable.) ...That Mr. Jobs persuaded Disney to dip its pinky toe into these waters is an impressive development - and a very promising sign. View quote
David Pogue
But what is the use of preaching the Gospel to men whose whole attention is concentrated upon a mad, desperate struggle to keep themselves alive? View quote
William Booth
In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up. View quote
Jesse Jackson
I guess that people like to think they are not only living but propagating their way of life." "That's right. People have a need to feel that they are part of some sustainable project. Something that will go on without them. It creates a feeling of stability. I believe that the need for that kind of stability is as basic and as desperate as some of the other, more obvious needs. But there's more than one way to get it. (Neal Stephenson)
Nothing is so dangerous for our security as large groups of desperate people. View quote
Marianne Williamson
The fact that people in Hollywood are open to what I teach is not because they're more desperate than anyone else, but because they're more touched by it. That's not their weakness. It's their strength! View quote
Marianne Williamson
It's still about the women. It's not called Desperate Plumber. People are more interested in cat fights. View quote
James Denton
Pursue not a victory too far. He hath conquered well that hath made his enemy fly thou mayest beat him to a desperate resistance, which may ruin thee. View quote
George Herbert