Desperate Dan Quotes

#1. Thus evolved some members of the Core - not altruists, but desperate survivalists who realized that the only way ultimately to win their never-ending zero-sum game was to stop the game. And to stop the game they needed to evolve into a species capable of empathy.

Dan Simmons

#2. Interstate highways dull the reality of place and distance almost as effectively as jetliners do: I loathe their scary monotony.

Jonathan Raban

#3. I've never thought of myself as a classic leading man. I'm a character actor who happens to play leading roles. Come on, look at me. I'm really Desperate Dan.

James Nesbitt

#4. Don't forget we are in a state of war and no peace. But it's very dynamic and challenging compared to the rest of the Arab world.

Walid Jumblatt

#5. My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run by the mob. The only gay people he'd met when I came out to him were corpses.

Dan Savage

#6. ...man can survive ...he can kill and be twisted and broken and desperate and insane and fuck barnyard pets in the dark and wear a dress if he chooses, and hate and destroy everything that's beautiful, and wish for death for himself and others with every breath, and still be a perfect child of God.

Dan Fante

#7. Know Scripture, know yourself, and know the need around you.2

Jennie Allen

#8. Coming back to where you grew up is like doing some crazy yoga trick, putting your feet in your own mouth and somehow swallowing yourself so there's nothing left; it can't be done, and any sane person ought to be fucking glad it can't . . .

Stephen King

#9. Always be careful of where you run to. When the going gets tough, take it easy and slow down, else you venture into the den of lions.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#10. The Noblest form of Affection

Oscar Wilde

#11. Dan Nilsson even remarks of compound eyes that 'It is only a small exaggeration to say that evolution seems to be fighting a desperate battle to improve a basically disastrous design.

Richard Dawkins

#12. Politics is a desperate business.

Dan Brown

#13. Hope is a thing made only for people,
a scrap to hold onto
in darkness and in light

Katherine Applegate

#14. Every object has a different role to play. Not all clothes have come to you to be worn threadbare. It is the same with people. Not every person you meet in life will become a close friend or lover.

Marie Kondo