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Tag Name "Desperate" (543)

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When I am not desperate, I am worthless.
Ivo Andric
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My friend, you would not tell with such high zest to children ardent for some desperate glory. The old lie: It is sweet and fitting that you should die for your country.
Wilfred Owen
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Star-crossed lovers desperate to get home together. Two hearts beating as one. Romance.
Suzanne Collins
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I try to have all my characters have a sense of humor. To me the most interesting thing is a desperate character. I think desperation is funny.
Bobby Cannavale
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Place your army in deadly peril, and it will survive plunge it into desperate straits, and it will come off in safety.
Sun Tzu
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There arc no such things as desperate situations. Only desperate men.
Adolf Hitler
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Provocative. Striking. Rachel Resnick is a virtuoso on the page. Her fearless examination of the desperate thirst to find love is guaranteed to break your heart. Yet her cool-eyed analysis of the roots of this addiction inspires hope that through committed self-understanding, maybe each of us can change toxic patterns, whatever they may be.
Samantha Dunn
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What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.
Virginia Woolf
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When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful.
Edward Abbey
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...a disgruntled reflection on my own life as a sort of desperate improvisation in which I was constantly trying to make something coherent from conflicting elements to fit rapidly changing settings.
Mary Catherine Bateson
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I never know what all of these guys are thinking, but Marco Rubio sounded desperate, like, We've got a leak in the dike, we got to stop this thing.
Chris Matthews
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The most intelligent people disguise the fact that they are intelligent. Wise men do not wear name tags. The more people talk about their own skills, the more desperate they are—their work should speak for itself.
Tsugumi Ohba
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What does it say about our country when people are so desperate for an alternative to our one-party state masquerading as a two-party state that they'll even elect a professional wrestler governor?
Jello Biafra
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You might perhaps like to see the few canvases I was able to save from the bailiffs and the rest, since I thought you might be so good as to help me a little, as I am in quite a desperate state, and the worst is that I can no longer even work.
Claude Monet
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Maybe I'm wrong, Mom said. Maybe the world really is coming to an end. Should I try Fox News? I asked. Mom shuddered. We're not that desperate, she said.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
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The fanatic is not really a stickler to principle. He embraces a cause not primarily because of its justness or holiness but because of his desperate need for something to hold onto.
Eric Hoffer
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Divorce was emotionally traumatic for me. It was the death of a dream. I was in fairytale land, and the reality of it wasn't so. But I don't really like talking about it anymore, because it feels like a thousand lifetimes ago, and also it makes me look desperate, like I need it for attention.
Katy Perry
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Every remedy is a desperate remedy. Every cure is a miraculous cure. Curing a madman is not arguing with a philosopher it is casting out a devil.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I don't have specific people. There are so many people that I admire and there's directors that I'm desperate to work with that haven't even made a movie yet, probably.
Jamie Dornan
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The big reason why I became an actor in the first place was to communicate. I never acted in high school...I was desperate to communicate.
Bruce Dern
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A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail.
Ben Marcus
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I'd be smiling if I wasn't so desperate. I'd be patient if I had the time.
Emeli Sande
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I don't want to say, 'This is where I'm going to be in five years and I'm going to get there no matter what.' I want to leave it open. I'm not a desperate actress dying to star in a B movie in a bikini.
Brooke Burke
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Middle-class people are becoming desperate. It can cause a moral man to break bad.
Giancarlo Esposito
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