Quotes with desperate

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  • Jesse Jackson My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.
    Jesse Jackson
    American Clergyman, Civil Rights Leader (1941 - )
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  • Willem De Kooning My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate.
    Willem De Kooning
    Dutch-American painter (1904 - 1997)
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  • Barbara Demick North Korea's whole idea is to create a crisis to solve a crisis. They're so poor and they're so desperate that they realize that this bombastic rhetoric can drive the South Korean stock market down and get the U.S. in a tizzy. And it's a game they've been playing for many, many years.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • William Shakespeare O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • C. T. Studd Real Christians revel in desperate ventures for Christ, expecting from God great things and attempting the same with exhilaration.
    Chocolate Soldier, by C. T. Studd
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  • Alice Miller Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation.
    Alice Miller
    Polish-born Swiss psychologist (1923 - 2010)
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  • Florence King Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all the ploys recommended by these authors. Bump into him, trip over him, knock him down, spill something on him, scald him, but meet him.
    Florence King
    American Author, Critic (1936 - 2016)
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  • Bette Davis The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God's joke on humanity. It is man's last desperate stand at superintendency.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Frank Sinatra The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.
    Frank Sinatra
    American singer, actor, and producer (1915 - 1998)
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  • Camille Paglia The Seventies theory explosion was a panic reaction by headlocked pedants unable to cope with the emotional and sensory flux of the Sixties. It was a desperate search for new authority, new dogma.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • A. B. Yehoshua The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs.
    A. B. Yehoshua
    Israeli novelist (1936 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro When people are desperate or wealthy, they turn to socialism; only when they have no other alternative do they embrace the free market. After all, lies about guaranteed security are far more seductive than lectures about personal responsibility.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Andre Breton If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.
    Andre Breton
    French writer (1896 - 1966)
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