Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antonio Guterres

When food becomes scarce, refugees often turn to desperate measures to feed themselves and their families. We are particularly worried about the health of the refugee population, domestic violence and refugees resorting to illegal employment or even to prostitution, just to put enough food on the table.

Ashleigh Brilliant

I'm not yet desperate enough to do anything about the conditions that are making me desperate.

Brian Gionta

We played a little desperate in the third period. We didn't play with that desperation in the first and second period.

Sean Astin

There was a combination of not wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth, but also really not wanting to be stuck in Lord of the Rings for the rest of my life, and being desperate to kind of make sure that I could do something else with my life.

William Booth

But what is the use of preaching the Gospel to men whose whole attention is concentrated upon a mad, desperate struggle to keep themselves alive?

Boo Weekley

I played the mini-tours for a lot of years, and man, you see some weird things out there. There are a lot of desperate people, strange personalities and marginal players, and with that you're going to see some cheating.

Trent Hunter

We're not giving up in here. We've raised our level of intensity and we have to be desperate every shift. And we've been able to do that.

We're at this point right now where we have to get it going. There's nothing really than can discourage us anymore. We're a desperate team, and I think we kind of showed that desperation.

We were a desperate team out there. We needed a win. Defensively, offensively, we just never gave up. We never gave up. Everything they did we countered.

Ben Shapiro

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.

Caroline Lucas

What we have seen in the last six months points to the desperate need for a Green alternative to be heard.

Katharine Isabelle

I grew up on my dad's sets, but I was never star-struck or desperate to be famous. I grew up being a worker. It took me a long time to realise that my work ended up being seen by people. As far as I was concerned, I was just in the family business.

We need medical supplies, please, ... We're in desperate need of MASH units.

I thought we were all kind of desperate housewives. Mine was just a little more desperate than they were.

Laura Bush

I said 'George, if you want to end world tyranny, you have to stay up later.' Nine o'clock and Mr. Excitement here is in bed, leaving me to watch 'Desperate Housewives' with Lynne Cheney. Ladies and gentlemen, I am a desperate housewife.

Tea Leoni

I was desperate to go back to New York and when 9/11 happened, I feared moving to the bulls-eye and that was very hard because I have a lot of family there and I really had to question what I didn't like about this community.

Frank Lampard

I was desperate to get that record but I want to get more goals now. I want to reach 20 goals for the first time.

Michael Hussey

I was desperate to be there at the end of the day so I was disappointed to get out.

It is nonsense on stilts and seemingly the work of a desperate journalist...

Patients with this disease face a desperate situation for which we really lack any promising approaches,

Henry David Thoreau

It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

Laura Bush

Ladies and gentlemen, I am a desperate housewife.

Chris Drury

This was a good game on our part in the desperate part of the game.

Let's not forget those folks that are in such desperate need,

One night, our captors took us downstairs, sat us in front of the TV, and showed us the life of Jesus on DVD in Arabic. But these are the people who shot Tom Fox in the head. People are very complex. Also, I think they wanted to keep us happy, so that we wouldn't try any desperate escape.

Phil Jackson

Obviously when the threes aren't going it's time to stop shooting them. We kept going to it and got desperate at the end trying to hit home runs. We can't do that.

One thing the riots have shown is that these kids are desperate for attention. We're trying to tell them that you matter most when you vote, that's when politicians have to start listening to you.

''My country, right or wrong'' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying ''My mother, drunk or sober.''

Monsanto is desperate to recapture royalties from its GM seeds, and terminator is the perfect solution because it would be able to biologically ensure that farmers have to return to the market every year.

People want to leave an estate when they pass on. They hold on to the desperate last.

When you're a desperate team, you do whatever it takes.

The more they figure you're desperate to attend, the less likely it is they will improve your package, because they figure you'll go anyway,

It's not deliberate, she's not really trying to hurt me. She's desperate and scared.