I guess the GOP may be more desperate than I thought to call somebody like me.
Nothing more or less than the deepest, most desperate desire of our hearts.
She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life.
The soul seeks God with its whole being. Because it is desperate to be whole, the soul is God-smitten and God-crazy and God-obsessed. My mind may be obsessed with idols; my will may be enslaved to habits; my body may be consumed with appetites. But my soul will never find rest until it rests in God.
As boys without bonds to their fathers grow older and more desperate about their masculinity, they are in danger of forming gangs in which they strut their masculinity for one another, often overdo it, and sometimes turn to displays of fierce, macho bravado and even violence.
Young people realize that something is amiss. There's a generation that fell in love with their phones, and it's very hard for them to see that there's a problem. But young people are desperate for the attention of their parents, who are really not paying attention to them.
Desperate is not a sexual preference.
This is the way the world really ends: not with whimper but a desperate chuckle.
The self-assured strength that grows from knowing that we already have what we need makes us gentle, because we are no longer desperate.
Strolling on the plateau of life, desperate for the mountain, I never thought that I would get this far. It's only art that has carried me through, given me faith in my own existence. But now I am approaching a point in my life where I desire more.
My disease is one of the best things that has happened to me; it has pulled me out of a quietly desperate life toward one full of love and hope.
Beauty is all about us, but how many are blind! They look at the wonder of this earth and seem to see nothing. People move hectically but give little thought to where they are going. They seek excitement. . . as if they were lost and desperate.
Over the years, HIVAIDS 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.
There was this very strange moment when the world discovered what was going on for LGBT people in Russia. It was very gratifying: I thought, there is a world out there, a saner world. It had felt sort of desperate and bizarre until that point.
I'm not one of those people who are desperate to get married.
There's no way in which you can ever win a war against terror. As long as there are conditions in many parts of the world that make people desperate: poverty, disease, ignorance, etc. I hope that we will discover soon, that we can survive, only together. We can prosper only together. And I think people are beginning to realize this, that you can't have pockets of prosperity in one part of the world and huge deserts of poverty and deprivation and think you can have a stable, secure world.
I'd be smiling if I wasn't so desperate. I'd be patient if I had the time.
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.
Can you imagine a silence so desperate to be heard?
I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.