Quotes About Desperate

There aren't that many great female roles in Shakespeare - none that I'd be desperate to play.

People on the stage are desperate to do the screens, and people on the screens are desperate to do theater.

As a young mom I was kind of desperate for some happy family moments and I realized that they don't usually show up all on their own, you have to create them - or at the very least, create an opportunity for them to bloom.

As a player, if a club is desperate to sign you, then you can benefit from that. Desperate clubs are prepared to pay more money; they are prepared to act decisively and play you.

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.

It was as though you struggled against fierce current jagged with debris to save me then. I am desperate still.

He felt brittle, and ravenous.

Then I had one of those moments of desperate inspiration, a brilliant idea born of panic.

Censorship is the child of fear the father of ignorance and the desperate weapon of fascists everywhere.

The borders of consciousness are anxious enough, raw and desperate places; we shouldn't be dragged across them like struggling thieves as if sleep was a felony.

Ten thousand credits, Han thought. Never thought I'd be desperate enough to risk it all on one high-stakes sabacc game … especially if I'm playing against a sharpie like Lando …

Once you base your whole life striving on a desperate lie, and try to implement that lie, you instrument your own undoing.

I'm there to make a kind of theatrical music that is desperately missing in my life. And if other people don't like it, I'm very unhappy, but I can't do anything about that.

She was at that age now where if she made too much fuss over them everyone assumed she was desperately broody and felt sorry for her, whereas if she wasn't interested enough she was considered bitter and jealous and also secretly desperate for a baby but not able to show it. It was a minefield.

My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

But in a psychological sense, the lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness. It is the expression of the inability of the individual self to stand alone and live. It is the desperate attempt to gain secondary strength where genuine strength is lacking.

I might be needy, competitive and desperate but it's far better than being wet.

All too often, we see politicians on both sides desperately twisting themselves into partisan-hack pretzels, for the sole purpose of defending their own 'team' or attacking the other, without any thought to principles or values whatsoever.

Bitcoins are not a real investment; they are bets inside a casino. If the price goes back up, don't be fooled. In the parlance of popping investment bubbles, it's something called a 'dead-cat bounce.' People who are desperate to keep the game going rush back in, hoping to bring the price back up, but it never lasts.

When you see government leaders really bullying business, you know that government's economic policy is failing. They get angry and they get desperate.

A hopeless man is a very desperate and dangerous man, almost a dead man.

Robin was disposed to feel desperately sorry for anyone with a less fortunate love life than her own – if desperate pity could describe the exquisite pleasure she actually felt at the thought of her own comparative paradise.

He experienced one of those moments of simultaneous confusion and clarity that belong to the drunk and the desperate.

But the uproar this caused was nothing compared with the uproar when Katronia noticed [Rosie] had also cut her eyelashes. Various negotiations (including, finally, such desperate measures as supposing you ever want to eat again) eventually produced the grudging promise that, in return for Katronia keeping her hair cut short, she would leave her eyelashes alone.