“We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.”
“Desperation is a fact of life in many poor, overcrowded countries.”
“Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.”
“If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.”
“Desperation sometimes drives innovation.”
“My desperation to be on the stage and perform was like a vocation, a religious calling.”
“Legislatures not driven to desperation by the problems of public education may be able to see the threat in vouchers negotiable in sectarian schools.”
“Songwriting is a burst of inspiration and then a long bit of work and a tremendous bit of desperation.”
“Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.”
“Well, yeah, but I probably wasn’t as open about my desperation.”
“Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.”
“A lot of people didn’t feel attracted to Labour, so they voted in desperation for other things.”
“I don’t find myself so exercised by a desperation to be new.”
“The high cost of housing is crushing poor families and sending them to a state of desperation.”
“Eviction reveals people’s vulnerability and desperation as well as their ingenuity and guts.”
“Confessions are not processed or analysed; they’re told in a moment of desperation to a priest or to somebody interrogating you about a crime.”
“Bill Clinton championed discriminatory laws against formerly incarcerated people that have kept millions of Americans locked in a cycle of poverty and desperation.”
“I was very insecure approaching the idea of directing a feature film. I told myself I would not move until I felt I was moving in power rather than moving in desperation to make a movie.”
“It’s such a dangerous thing for desperation to drive litigation.”
“I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation.”
“I’ve always been partial to werewolves, perhaps because there’s a desperation to their plight that resonates.”
“Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.”
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