Desperate Quotes

I never let myself get desperate.

There's always somebody older, richer, more desperate than you.

When I am not desperate, I am worthless.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

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.

The spoiled superstar brat wouldn't get far in Oklahoma City. We're very value-conscious. Our city was settled in a land run. Those 10,000 people were desperate for a better life.

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.

It's still about the women. It's not called Desperate Plumber. People are more interested in cat fights.

I was desperate really for people not to accuse me of coldness. It was taboo.

Middle-class people are becoming desperate. It can cause a moral man to break bad.

Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best.

I'm always slightly embarrassed to meet other actresses of my vintage. We have so little in common. They're all so dedicated. I find - so desperate.

There are no desperate situations, there are only desperate people.

I would never wear anything too revealing. I'm not a fan of dresses where you look nude... I think that looks a bit desperate.

I am desperate to do a comedy now.

In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.

I'm not desperate but I know that some day I'll be the coach again of some team.

Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion, say, or Obama's birthplace - tend to come when an opponent is desperate and can't sell himself.

Over the years, HIV/AIDS activists and their allies have been pioneers in creating new frontiers in the medical establishment. Through their efforts, the FDA drug approval procedures were reformed so promising new therapies could reach desperate patients quicker.

As people get more desperate, history suggests that they're not going to rise in a mighty proletarian tidal wave and wash away their oppressors. They're gonna turn on each other.

The only people who are desperate to go on the show are people we're desperate not to have on the show.

Because of President Obama's failed record on nearly every issue from the economy to the deficit to Medicare, the Obama campaign has become increasingly dirty, despicable, and desperate.

In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid.

Jumping through any hoop or taking advantage of any desperate situation that comes up just to sell a product is harmful. It is.

I was just the youngest in the family, and most in desperate need of attention.

Haiti is in desperate poverty.

I'm not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself. I can't join your gang: you'd think I was a phony and I'd know it.

I think I'm probably a little too desperate to be successful.

The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.

The people that live in my hometown do not walk along the street with smiles on their faces. It is a desperate place, but I got out.

I believe that human beings are desperate, always, to belong to something larger than themselves.

His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.

People care and are willing to help me out my desperate circumstances.