#desperate

I guess I so desperately want to see us put this planet right. It's so horrifying to me that a fifth of us are starving every night, and that forty thousand children die every single day. ↗

— Ann Druyan

#day #desperately #die #every #every night

Look at the Palestinians with the huge, huge percentage of unemployed. What does that breed? Anyone who's unemployed in the world, you feel there's no meaning and there's a risk that you drift over to something desperate. Yes, we have to tackle the social problems as well. ↗

— Hans Blix

#breed #desperate #does #drift #feel

The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#anesthetic #desperate #interesting #interesting thing #loneliness

With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#any #child #desperate #enough #entering

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#brave #courage #cowardice #dangers #desperate

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it. ↗

— William Feather

#find #happiness #might #quit #some

Several million people inside and outside Afghanistan are destitute and desperately in need of help. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

#desperately #destitute #help #inside #million

A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people. ↗

— Elia Kazan

#director #does #film #get #matter

When I looked into the eyes of the people who knew Laci best, I saw something I didn't want to see: a group of people who desperately loved Laci, and who were beginning to suspect she wasn't coming home. ↗

— Amber Frey

#best #coming #coming home #desperately #eyes

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

#because #desperate #down #get #good