The worst curse to befall anyone is stagnation, a banal existence, the quiet desperation that comes out of a need for conformity.
Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
There can be powerful magic in acts of desperation.
Gloria Steinem's marriage is proof positive of the emotional desperation of ageing feminists who for over 30 years worshiped the steely career woman and callously trashed stay-at-home moms.
People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation.
Obviously we're doing a comedy [Fresh Hell], and our intent is to entertain, but we're also really aware and trying to stay aware of the subtext of what it's like to reach a certain age and be dismissed, basically, from the fraternity you've always wanted to be a part of, and the desperation involved in trying to claw your way back into it.
I learned to pray out of desperation. For most of us, this is how the adventure usually begins. When we finally get serious about prayer, the trigger is usually desperation, not duty. . . . We don't pray because we ought, we pray because we are without any other recourse.
How could you tell if your instincts were just hope in disguise, and if your hope was really desperation parading as possibility?
I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation.
All of us, poor & rich alike, have been conditioned by our upbringings. Impoverished men & women may become lulled into a state of "learned helplessness" without hope to change their lives. Likewise, the wealthy can walk in a state of "learned blindness" ignoring the desperation of the local & global poor.
Honduras has become a murder capital of the world; there's horrible atrocities, infanticide, murder of women is way up, and people are fleeing in desperation. They come to the border, and we put them in trucks and send them back to Mexico to die. And here people are scared of illegal immigrants - that's what we're doing. It's pretty shocking.
Desperation is like a spilled drink; even if it's delicious, no one will get near it. Cultivate an aura of glamorous unapproachability.
Folly and desperation are ofttimes hard to tell apart.
Wouldn't this be a great world if insecurity and desperation made us more attractive?
When you run into someone that you used to be in love with, all that you have is drama, desperation and not know what to do.
Economy, speed, nervousness, and desperation produce the final wasteful, semi-incoherent movies we see.
Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration.
When you sell in desperation, you always sell cheap.
There is so much poverty and desperation in South Sudan, and yet each side is militarily equipped.
The force that has overcome Europe and destroyed entire states within days could cope with us, a handful of youngsters. It was an act of desperation. . . We aspired to only one thing: to sell our lives for the highest possible price.