252 Quotes About Desperate



  • Author Catherine Lacey
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    I'd run out of options. That's how these things usually happen, how a person ends up placing all her last hopes on a stranger, hoping that whatever that stranger might do to her would be the thing she needed done to her.

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  • Author Djuna Barnes
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    Every hour is my last, and," she said desperately,"one can't live one's last hour all one's life!

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  • Author Veronica Roth
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    I can't imagine what kind of poverty would motivate a person to forget themselves and everyone they loved so their families could get a monthly stipend. I may have lived on Abnegation bread and vegetables for most of my life, with nothing to spare, but I was never that desperate. Their situation must have been much worse than anything I saw in the city. - Tris

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  • Author M. Leighton
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    I know what that feels like. I know what it’s like to care about someone so much they make you desperate.

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  • Author Alan Autry
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    You look at it, you're stuck with 400 or you look at it as we have an opportunity to help 400 fellow Americans in desperate need,

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  • Author Daniel Alfredsson
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    We've had some injuries, we went into a slump and we've played some teams that are more desperate than us in some cases.

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  • Author Dave Allison
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    They were really desperate. We got to match their desperation. It's a great experience to see what it takes to win in a desperate playoff situation or eliminate a team from contention. It's a great experience for all of us.

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