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Quotes About Desperation

Al amanecer recorría el camino yermo hasta el trabajo notando la llegada del invierno y sumida en la desesperación. ¿Qué valor tenía la vida? ¿Qué importaba que una persona fuera buena o mala? ¿Qué consuelo podía hallarse en "Dios"?
~ Eva Schloss
Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration.
~ Evan Esar
Very, very rare that you do a job knowing that the audience is desperate for you to do that job. Most films you make don't get released, is the fact.
~ Ian Mckellen
When I first got an outbreak of hives, I tried everything to find relief. I felt like no one understood what I was going through.
~ Vicki Lawrence
I'm desperate to enjoy my football again and play until I retire. Obviously I'm 34 so I don't want to be sitting on the bench, I don't want to be remembering my last few years of my career like that.
~ Rickie Lambert
Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen.
~ John Podhoretz
I never wanted to be one of those desperate actors, just waiting for their next gig, who might have to take something that they didn't want to do to pay the rent.
~ Wendi McLendon-Covey
'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' was a movie that I repeatedly turned down. The movie's producer, Albert 'Cubby' Broccoli, known for his tight-fisted control of the James Bond movie franchise, desperately wanted to re-team Julie Andrews and me after the success we'd enjoyed with 'Mary Poppins.'
~ Dick Van Dyke
I lost my father and went into a process of grief with it that was all about how to replace that grief, how to fill it, and I think there was something very desperate in the way that I was replacing it.
~ Justin Kurzel
There's so little representation of people who look like me behind the camera that it makes you want to say yes to any opportunity out of desperation. It puts you in a situation where you can't make your best work. Diversity for cheap.
~ Lulu Wang
To be hungry must be awful.
~ Dick Van Patten
I don't sing. If I could sing or dance, I would have done something really gross in a G-string by now - when I wasn't working and was desperate - and ruined my career.
~ Jason O'Mara
Canadians must fight back against global elites preying on the fears and desperation of people to impose their power grab.
~ Pierre Poilievre
People are desperate for these breathier, longer, more in-depth conversations. And the only thing I can't provide in my show is the longer time.
~ Moshe Kasher
They that die by famine die by inches.
~ Matthew Henry
Everywhere I go I see increasing evidence of people swirling about in a human cesspit of their own making.
~ Norman Angell
I just feel incredibly lucky to be employed when there are so many actors and actresses who are not employed. That's why, you know, I sometimes feel desperate, in case I'm not going to be cast again.
~ Judi Dench
But when things go wrong and people get desperate, the obvious is often overlooked, and it's assumed that if delivery fails, the problem must lie with delivery, when in fact it lies with forecasting.
~ Bent Flyvbjerg
We do not have to be desperate to be creative. Indeed, there's reason to think that desperation may actually hinder the imaginative moments that elevate a project to glory.
~ Bent Flyvbjerg
Viimaste ellujääjate agoonia on ilmselt kõige hullem.
~ Bernard Werber
Truth is, both of us was desperate to be anything other than what we was.
~ Bernardine Evaristo
While an exceptionally wealthy few wallow in affluence and become exponentially richer with each passing day, the majority of Americans live lives of quiet desperation.
~ Bernie Sanders
What to do when the whole world was on fire and you didn't have the equipment to put out the flames, when the fire was in you as much as it was around you, and no matter what you did or did not do, your actions would change nothing?
~ Berthold Brecht
Unhappy is the land that needs a hero.
~ Bertolt Brecht