#desperately

I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#desperately #handing #i #me #out

As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together. ↗

— Edmund White

#confirm #desperately #excuse #i #identity

Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#austen #because #books #boring #boring people

I knew that I needed to do something that I desperately loved. There was a period where I did question if it was acting because I knew that I would be making things hard on myself. I knew that there was going to be a little bit of a hullabaloo because of my dad being who he is and all that. ↗

— Colin Hanks

#because #being #bit #dad #desperately

I so desperately hate to end these movies that the first thing I do when I'm done is write another one. Then I don't feel sad about having to leave and everybody going away. ↗

— John Hughes

#another #away #desperately #done #end

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains. ↗

— Anne Sullivan Macy

#chains #cling #commonplace #desperately #escape

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

Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#desperately #does #education #fulfilled #funding

Basically, we are a whole world of people desperately trying to figure out what is the dark side of our natures and how much can we explore without becoming something else. ↗

— William Petersen

#becoming #dark #dark side #desperately #else

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