The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?
If you try desperately to hang on to something that used to be a success for you, it's going to go away. You have to change.
No matter how long it takes or how desperately a person battles or denies, the truth always-always-makes itself known.
Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl.
This disease of being “busy” (and let’s call it what it is, the dis-ease of being busy, when we are never at ease) is spiritually destructive to our health and wellbeing. It saps our ability to be fully present with those we love the most in our families, and keeps us from forming the kind of community that we all so desperately crave.
When I'm really involved or getting towards the end of a novel, I can write for up to ten hours a day. At those times, it's as though I'm writing a letter to someone I'm desperately in love with.
You know you're walking around with a mask on, and you desperately want to take it off and you can't because everybody else thinks it's your face.
I could say his body was perfect and every part of it beautiful, because it was. Not because he had no flaws, but because I wanted him so desperately I couldn’t see any.
Money begets money. If you don't have that, you wait around to be hired by somebody at the mercy of others. If you have that money in your hand, you desperately try to make the best use of it and move ahead. And that's generating income for yourself.
I give grace because I so desperately need it.
It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become.
Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!
Humanity enveloped in entropy desperately seeking symmetry for peace of mind
A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately in need of salvation as a miserable world-and might be even more difficult to save.
I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.
If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it's not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.
I saw corpses, and grew used to their unimportant look, for a dead man without any of the panoply of death is a desperately insignificant object.
I am not for raising taxes in a recession, especially when it comes to job creators that we need so desperately to start creating jobs again.
The movie is more real in so many ways than the life I am leading. No, that’s not true. I just desperately wish this was only a movie.
To the millions of Americans whove attempted to use HealthCare. gov to shop and enroll in health-care coverage, I want to apologize to you that the Web site has not worked as well as it should. We know how desperately you need affordable coverage.