#desperate

Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion, say, or Obama's birthplace - tend to come when an opponent is desperate and can't sell himself. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#birthplace #come #desperate #himself #identity

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

#child #childhood #desperate #disease #fantasies

Because I'm so busy and because I think of myself as a painter, I desperately guard the time that I have to paint. And sometimes I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#busy #career #desperately #eat #forget

Desperate affairs require desperate measures. ↗

— Horatio Nelson

#desperate #measures #require

Right now, the Anglo people are desperately trying to hold on to the United States, like they tried to hold on to Africa. ↗

— Edward James Olmos

#anglo #desperately #hold #like #now

Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#desperate #electoral #grown #happen #happening

The agency was desperate to get started with the commercials in 1976, but I was working on Star Wars. ↗

— David Prowse

#commercials #desperate #get #i #star

You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world. ↗

— Sheilah Graham

#created #desperately #energy #enough #exuberance

I'm not desperate but I know that some day I'll be the coach again of some team. ↗

— Diego Maradona

#coach #day #desperate #i #know

They're desperately searching for meaning in their lives but they will not crack the Bible open. ↗

— Victoria Jackson

#crack #desperately #lives #meaning #open