“ Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out. ”
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne- Copy
- 2.2K
“ 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- Copy
- 347
“ The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear. ”
- Frank Sinatra- Copy
- 3.8K
“ 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- Copy
- 2K
“ 'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Beckham is unusual. He was desperate to be a footballer. His mind was made up when he was nine or ten. Many kids think that it's beyond them. But you can't succeed without practising at any sport. ”
- Bobby Charlton- Copy
- 2.6K
“ I think it's still hard for me to turn down work if it's really good because for so many years I was so desperate to get a job and couldn't and so it's kind of an anathema for me to turn down work. ”
- Matt Damon- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about. ”
- Katharine Hepburn- Copy
- 3.5K
“ A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader. ”
- Daisaku Ikeda- Copy
- 1.8K
“ My experience has been in a short 77 years that in the end when you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win. ”
- Edward Teller- Copy
- 461
“ It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Beware of desperate steps; the darkest day lived till tomorrow will have passed away. ”
- William Cowper- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress. ”
- Quentin Crisp- Copy
- 532
“ In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 2.3K
“ "My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober.". ”
- G. K. Chesterton- Copy
- 3.4K
“ The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
- 3K
“ In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest. ”
- Titus Livius- Copy
- 3.9K
“ All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage. ”
- Sir William Blake- Copy
- 1.2K
“ O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men! ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 984
“ Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave. ”
- John Christian Bovee- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Every day is a little life… live every day as if it would be the last. Those that dare lose a day are dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it are desperate. ”
- Joseph Hall- Copy
- 205
“ Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act. ”
- Lewis Mumford- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
- 80
“ I am desperate and vulnerable… I am always terrified… Beauty can sometimes be so very troublesome. ”
- Faye Dunaway- Copy
- 2.4K
- 1
- 2