Some People Are So Desperate Quotes

#1. Crimes are more often committed out of fear than wickedness. People live frightened, desperate lives.

Ruth Rendell

#2. For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

Michelle Obama

#3. It's still about the women. It's not called Desperate Plumber. People are more interested in cat fights.

James Denton

#4. The whole world is desperate to listen to you when you find your unique voice. Your uniqueness that attracts people, not your playing safe.

Assegid Habtewold

#5. You mostly know that you want to be funny, know that you have the desire. It's not like people who grow up beautiful and can look in the mirror and be like, I'm beautiful! Funny is more of a journey. And a desperate attempt.

Tina Fey

#6. People need me. I fill them. If they can't see me for a while they get desperate, they get sick. But if I see them too often I get sick. It's hard to feed without getting fed.

Charles Bukowski

#7. It was a strategy as old as time. Make people desperate enough and they obeyed.

Debra Webb

#8. Over the long term, symbolic attempts at appearing cool end up replacing honest charity that actually helps people. In most cases, social consciousness, really, is a simplistic strategy to mask a lazy intellect and fulfill a desperate need for attention.

Greg Gutfeld

#9. Ethics must be reintroduced to public service to restore people's faith in government. Without such faith, democracy cannot flourish. Your ambitious agenda is filling a desperate need.

Walter Cronkite

#10. As people get richer and older, you will see, they start doing more desperate things to be happy.

Sadguru

#11. I suppose I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

Tennessee Williams

#12. When people are desperate or wealthy, they turn to socialism; only when they have no other alternative do they embrace the free market. After all, lies about guaranteed security are far more seductive than lectures about personal responsibility.

Ben Shapiro

#13. Solutions-oriented campaigning with a little passion and a little humor; I think that will go a long way. I think people are desperate for it.

Laura Ingraham

#14. She was drained from the shock and fear of looking at the emotional wreckage of real humans, desperate people with little hope and looking to her for help.

John Grisham

#15. I became very attentive to customers because I was desperate not to have people leave and never come back.

Andrew Cherng

#16. Some people are desperate because they don't know how to ask for His grace.

Bree Despain

#17. People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think.

George Carlin

#18. It explains why people come home from work or school and immediately switch on the television. They are not interested in the program much of the time, they do not even know what is on. But they are desperate for the sound of another human voice in their lives

Harold S. Kushner

#19. I'm not one of those people who are desperate to get married.

Kelly Osbourne

#20. Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.

Lewis Mumford

#21. The truth is, however rich people get, they hate paying tax. Some live abroad for a year, or years at a time just to avoid it. Bizarre really - desperate economic migrants are driven to leave their homeland because of poverty; tax exiles are driven overseas by their wealth.

Clint Black

#22. The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people.

Cornel West

#23. Owing to a poorly defined sense of self, people with BPD rely on others for their feelings of worth and emotional caretaking. So fearful are they of feeling alone that they may act in desperate ways that quite frequently bring about the very abandonment and rejection they're trying to avoid.

Kimberlee Roth

#24. The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.

Richard J. Foster

#25. When people come to the only professional wizard in the Chicago phone book for help, they're one of two things: desperate or smart. Very rarely are they both.

Jim Butcher

#26. I think that the roots of racism have always been economic, and I think people are desperate and scared. And when you're desperate and scared you scapegoat people. It exacerbates latent tendencies toward - well, toward racism or homophobia or anti-Semitism.

Henry Louis Gates

#27. Yes, I leaned toward desperate danger; I would do anything for my people.

Jodi Meadows

#28. My image of what a city should be - the super-rich and all the poor and desperate and the people who have some kind of a desire. It's a surviving game, people trying to survive on many different levels.

Ai Weiwei

#29. If a huge number of people call for change, the government will have to react. If you want to avoid uprisings, or demonstrations, you need to respond to the people's desperate need for change.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#30. In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.

Jesse Jackson