Quotes tagged ‘Desperation’

“You left my daughter? If you're not already dead, I'm gonna fucking kill you.”

— Carlton Cuse, Emma Gaines, Carla Gugino, imdb.com

“In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition, religion, and even nation-centered cultures, partly to decrease the danger of group conflict. But we are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness, and that is no improvement at all.”

— Jordan B. Peterson, amazon.com

“I do not like the feeling of bones bending to fit your shape, creaking music of decay. You are eating away at my flesh, parasitic picture of perfection. I do not like the feeling of words stuck in my chest, lungs sticky with smoke and regret, second guess.”

— Savannah Brown, youtube.com

“I am not in the business of taking bullets, so I do not like the feeling of desperation, begging to hear gunfire because you would not forget me then.”

— Savannah Brown, youtube.com

“Silence has always been my loudest scream.”

— Amanda Lovelace, instagram.com

“Pazuzu: Do you want to know why you've never been chosen? Maria Walters: Yes. Pazuzu: It's your smell. The first born are attracted to power, potential... and you? Desperation... with notes of mediocrity. You're never gonna be one of us.”

— Franklin jin Rho, Jeremy Slater, Maria Walters, Kirsten Fitzgerald, imdb.com

“Desperation is a stinky cologne.”

— Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Paul Soter, Steve Lemme, Erik Stolhanske, Chief Grady, Daniel Von Bargen, imdb.com

“Like a desperation murmur of a heart beat.”

— Green Day, open.spotify.com

“Emily Hartley: [Howard—dressed like Tobin, in head-to-toe leather, and Ellen are over at Bob and Emily's. John Tobin's left—finally] Howard, you are incredible. Howard Borden: I don't mean to be. I just want my girl back, that's all. Ellen Hartley: [laughing] Oh, Howard... [smiling, and looking at H…”

— Michael Zinberg, Howard Borden, Bill Daily, imdb.com

“Emily Hartley: How about that, Bob? There may be life on Jupiter. Dr. Robert 'Bob' Hartley: Great. You can fix Carol up with it.”

— Gordon Farr, Lynne Farr, Robert Hartley, Bob Newhart, imdb.com

“Hope is a carrot easily dangled in front of the desperate.”

— Megan Mostyn-Brown, Fish Mooney, Jada Pinkett-Smith, imdb.com

“A man with nothing that he loves…is a man who cannot be bargained. A man that cannot be betrayed. A man who answers to no one… but himself.”

— Megan Mostyn-Brown, Edward Nygma / The Riddler, Cory Michael Smith, imdb.com

“This is to all my loyal fans...LOVE ME!”

— John Kricfalusi, Ren Höek (voice), Billy West, imdb.com

“Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work- it’s a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love them.”

— Dean Koontz, amazon.com

“I have lived under the threat of death for a year now. And because of that, I've made choices.”

— Thomas Schnauz, Moira Walley-Beckett, Walter White, Bryan Cranston, imdb.com

“eHarmony's the benchmark. They fully monetized desperation.”

— Zander Lehmann, Kiel, Nicole Burch, imdb.com

“Come at once. Help me. Save me. I need you now as I have never needed you before. I love you. I love you. I love you. Come at once.”

— George R. R. Martin, Cersei Lannister, amazon.com

“It's always hard to remember love—years pass and you say to yourself, Was I really in love, or was I just kidding myself? Was I really in love, or was I just pretending he was the man of my dreams? Was I really in love, or was I just desperate?”

— Nora Ephron, books.google.com

“We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or desperation.”

— Jim Rohn, twitter.com

“Hold onto nothing as fast as you can.”

— Tori Amos, open.spotify.com