Desperate Situation Quotes

#1. The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way ... style.

Frank Auerbach

#2. Jumping through any hoop or taking advantage of any desperate situation that comes up just to sell a product is harmful. It is.

Trent Reznor

#3. Like an animal caught in a trap, trying to gnaw off its own leg, a woman who seeks abortion is trying to escape a desperate situation by an act of violence and self-loss. Abortion is not a sign that women are free, but a sign that they are desperate.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

#4. it was times like these when a man in a desperate situation must take whatever madness is offered to escape the darker madness in which he finds himself trapped.

Sean F. Hogan

#5. Hope is believing in something that eludes you. It's a desperate feeling in a desperate situation.

Carroll Bryant

#6. The hardest situation is when the individuals desperate "to cut off your wings" are your closest family members whom you can't escape dealing with.

Sahara Sanders

#7. However desperate the situation and circumstances, don't despair. When there is everything to fear, be unafraid. When surrounded by dangers, fear none of them. When without resources, depend on resourcefulness. When surprised, take the enemy by surprise.

Sun Tzu

#8. Remember; no matter how desperate the situation seems, time spent
thinking clearly is never time wasted.

Max Brooks

#9. The international situation is desperate, as usual.

Tom Robbins

#10. The situation was obviously desperate: Lillian Lynburn was actually arguing for someone to feel more empathy.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#11. A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.

Daisaku Ikeda

#12. The only reason anyone would sell salt more cheaply than usual would be because he was desperate for money. And anyone who took advantage of that situation would be showing a lack of respect for the sweat and struggle of the man who laboured to produce it.

Paulo Coelho

#13. The situation is desperate," runs an old Viennese saying, "but not serious.

Jan Swafford

#14. Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained.

David Frum

#15. Even illegals are not coming into the United States now because they can't find jobs. It's how desperate the job situation is in the United States.

Mario Diaz-Balart

#16. What does a good man fall back on when the situation is desperate? His faith, of course. The science of a new century. The love of his friends.

Stephen King

#17. For most of my writing life, I've refused to allow myself to believe that writing was a significant form of action. I always felt very uneasy about the fact that all I did was write in a situation as desperate as apartheid South Africa. Whether I was correct or not is a different issue.

Athol Fugard

#18. Some people probably think of the Resurrection as a desperate last moment expedient to save the Hero from a situation which had got out of the Author's control.

C.S. Lewis

#19. She was in a situation that was desperate enough to allow her life to be manipulated.

Alessandra Torre

#20. Like the Spitfire it was immensely strong: a pilot had no need to fear the danger of pulling the wings off, no matter how desperate the situation became.

Douglas Bader

#21. Suicide is a desperate attempt to get out of what seems to be an intolerable situation. It appears to be a way of escape from the pain of living.

June Hunt

#22. When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful.

Edward Abbey

#23. And suddenly, as he noted the fine shades of manner by which she harmonized herself with her surroundings, it flashed on him that, to need such adroit handling, the situation must indeed be desperate.

Edith Wharton

#24. In many situations that seemed desperate, the artillery has been a most vital factor.

Douglas MacArthur

#25. The tragedy of today is that the situation is desperate but the saints are not.

Vance Havner

#26. Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation.

Alice Miller

#27. Forget the statistics ... we have to do more. You cannot look these children in the eye and see how desperate is their situation without wanting to help.

Liam Neeson

#28. Our situation was so desperate that only the death of His own Son on a cruel and shameful cross was sufficient to resolve the problem.

Jerry Bridges