If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it's not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.
But-but…” Timmie’s eyes couldn’t get any wider. “Why did you tell her I’m your boyfriend? Why doesn’t she know about your real one?” That was a good question. I cast around for an answer. Any answer. “He’s English!” I settled on desperately. “And Mom…Mom hates foreigners!
The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.
I want to have a strong border. We have to have it. Otherwise, we don't have a country. We have drugs pouring in. We have crime pouring in. We have, you know, a lack of economic development because of it. And we hurt our jobs picture, which are desperately needed.
Wanting anything too desperately is a form of aggression and violence, which will always be met with resistance.
It is impossible not to react to the current state of affairs through personal action and artistic production. We have been at war for three years. One desperately feels the need for someone to speak some sort of truth, either poetic or factual.
It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?
The first time you find yourself having a conversation about moss stitch with a group of people who aren't desperately trying to escape you. . . it's like coming home.
Adults. . . struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can possibly fly, or how Batman can possibly run a multibillion-dollar business empire during the day and fight crime at night, when the answer is obvious even to the smallest child: because it's not real.
You don’t have to look like an old fuddy-duddy, but I believe it was Chanel who said, ‘Nothing makes a woman look so old as trying desperately hard to look young’. I think you can be attractive at any age. I think trying to look like a spring chicken when you’re not makes you look ridiculous.
I hate stand-up comics; I think funny is something you are, not something you desperately try to be in front of a roomful of obnoxious people.
How desperately we wish to maintain our trust in those we love! In the face of everything, we try to find reasons to trust. Because losing faith is worse than falling out of love.
I tried college for three months but I was desperately unhappy. I just wanted to perform. I was getting straight As but I had no friends and cried every day.
In those days it was either live with music or die with noise, and we chose rather desperately to live.
Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.
I'm interested in painting the most beautifully compelling pictures and images and metaphors and stories and explanations possible that will put Jesus in language for a world that desperately needs to hear it.
After a war life catches desperately at passing hints of normalcy like vines entwining a hollow twig.
Many of those who are driven to this life are desperately searching for those pockets of silence where we can root and grow.
I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world.