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Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. Mark Twain

Prayer Desperate Circumstances Relief Denied Provides Urgent Certain Profanity Even

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

People Care Desperate Think Say dont Care Who

I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting. Jim Carrey

You Learning Desperation Desperate Think Some Point Period Learn Without Human Human Beings Anything Interesting Ingredient Creating Beings Necessary

I've been looking around, and I noticed something: how much you really need to be loved. Ambition isn't just a desperate quest for positions or money. It's just love - lots of love. Janis Joplin

It's heartbreaking that so many hundreds of millions of people around the world are desperate for the right to vote, but here in America people stay home on election day. Moby

Day Home Vote People World Election Desperate Hundreds Stay Around Heartbreaking America Election Day Many Right Here Millions Millions Of People

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

Socialism People Desperate Responsibility Free Other Market Security Wealthy Embrace Lies Seductive About More Only Free Market Alternative Lectures Than Personal After Personal Responsibility Turn Far Guaranteed

A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. They fail, for self-discovery is spiritual in nature, not social or political. Authoritatively telling other people what to do is their distraction from an inner emptiness they can never fill. Vernon Howard

Nature Spiritual People Political Desperate Power Other Telling Distraction Find Seek Attempt Never Fail Over Self-Discovery Emptiness Social Themselves Certain Fill Inner Number

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me. Jodie Foster

War Alone Great Me Experience Solitude Fear Desperate Solitary Having Combination Always Been Tug Being Being Alone Interesting Need

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

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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

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

Saying Patriotism Mother Desperate Country Drunk Think Would Case Except Wrong Like Patriot Sober Ever Right Thing

An entire nation, it seemed, was standing in one long breadline, desperate for even the barest essentials. It was a crisis of monumental proportions. It was known as the Great Depression. Kathi Appelt

Depression Great Desperate Long Nation Great Depression Monumental Crisis Entire Seemed Proportions Known Essentials Standing Even

I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said 'Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.' Nicole Kidman

Positive Future Wake Up Desperate Feeling It Is What It Is Could Know Sure Said Been Wake Up Going Holds Should Nic Dad

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Henry David Thoreau

Man Desperate Enterprises Haste He Perhaps Drummer Because Does His Hears Different Pace Succeed Should Companions Keep Why

In the workplace, many people become helicopter managers, hovering over their employees in a well-intentioned but ill-fated attempt to provide support. These are givers gone awry - people so desperate to help others that they develop a white knight complex and end up causing harm instead. Adam Grant

People Desperate Employees Become Gone White Help Others Others Complex Givers Attempt Develop Instead Support Knight Over Well-Intentioned Hovering Causing Provide End Up Managers Helicopter Help Many Workplace Awry Harm

I don't like the clean-shaven boy with the necktie and the good job. I like desperate men, men with broken teeth and broken minds and broken ways. They interest me. They are full of surprises and explosions. Charles Bukowski

Good Me Broken Good Job Desperate Job Men Teeth Minds Ways Like Boy Surprises Interest Full Explosions

No level of border security, no wall, doubling the size of the border patrol, all these things will not stop the illegal migration from countries as long as a 7-year-old is desperate enough to flee on her own and travel the entire length of Mexico because of the poverty and the violence in her country. Jeh Johnson

Travel Desperate Will Long Poverty Country Own Enough Security Border Border Patrol Border Security Entire Countries Because Mexico Wall Stop Size Patrol Length Flee Doubling Migration Illegal Her Level Things Violence

The political solutions to the refugee crisis may be complex, but that does not mean we should abandon our humanity. We should not close our hearts, retreat behind walls, real or imagined, or ignore the pressing moral imperative to provide assistance and sanctuary for some of the world's most desperate people. Katharine Viner

Humanity People World Political Walls Desperate Our Complex Pressing Crisis Abandon Moral Solutions Some Imperative Retreat Most Does Real Provide Close Hearts May Refugee Behind Mean Sanctuary Should Ignore Assistance Imagined

The democratic system is challenged by the failure in television because our evening news programmes have gone for an attempt to entertain as much as to inform in the desperate fight for ratings. Walter Cronkite

News Failure Fight Desperate Gone Programmes Our Television System Entertain Ratings Attempt Democratic Because Inform Much Evening Evening News Challenged

Each one of us can do a good deed, every day and everywhere. In hospitals in desperate need of volunteers, in homes for the elderly where our parents and grandparents are longing for a smile, a listening ear, in the street, in our workplaces and especially at home. Shari Arison

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There are no desperate situations, there are only desperate people. Heinz Guderian

People Desperate Only Situations

I learnt not to be desperate in bad times and am learning not to be bullish when times are good. John Elkann

Good Learning Desperate Bad Bad Times Learnt Am Bullish Times

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