170 Desperately Quotes for You to Enjoy

The desperately poor may accept handouts, because they feel they have to. For those who consider themselves at least middle class, however, anything that smacks of a handout is not desired. Instead, they want their economic power back. Robert J. Shiller

Class Power Desperately Consider Back Those Smack Economic Economic Power Instead Feel Accept Because Least However Handout May Middle Want Middle Class Anything Poor Themselves Who Desired

My mother's father was a doctor, and she desperately wanted to be a doctor. Ruth Reichl

Doctor Mother Father Desperately She Wanted

Like me as a teen - and like many teenagers now - my characters are at a peculiar crossroads in their lives. They desperately seek freedom. But at the same time, they are constantly thwarted. Sabaa Tahir

Time Freedom Me Teen Desperately Teenagers Characters Constantly Seek Crossroads Thwarted Like Same Same Time Many Now Lives Peculiar

I'm not desperately looking for a man, but I'm sure one of these days, I'll find my Mr. Right. Sakshi Tanwar

Man Looking Desperately Find Days Sure Right

Generally, you want to raise capital either when you have to or when it's really easy. If the company desperately needs money, and they can't figure out any other way, then they need to raise money. Or if someone's offering you easy money on good terms, you should take it because you can use it for good things. Sam Altman

Good Needs You Good Things Money Other Desperately Way Out Easy Someone Good Terms Take Generally Terms Because Offering Any Any Other Way Want Either Capital Then Really Should Use Figure Company Things Raise Need

A lot of Americans desperately want to believe that China is full of poor people who can't innovate, and the only goods they make are cheap, toxic rip-offs our Western brands. They want to believe the only reason the Chinese economy is surging is because the West wants cheap goods and China knows how to make them that way. Sarah Lacy

People Believe Desperately Innovate Our Way Only Cheap Goods Economy Toxic Make Knows Because How Surging West Lot Western Brands American Want Wants China Chinese Them Poor Poor People Full Reason Who

I was a boarding school product from the age of eight, and I hated it. Though I do have a theory that boarding school is good training for writers because it's so desperately lacking in privacy: you make space for yourself by having an interior life. Simon Mawer

Life Good You Privacy Age Yourself Training Interior School Space Desperately Though Hated Having Writers Make Because Lacking Eight Boarding Boarding School Product Theory

My mother desperately wanted children. She had a child that was stillborn - something I learned when I was looking through her 'effects' after she had died. It was then that I discovered my original birth certificate, which indicated the previous birth. Stanley Hauerwas

Mother Looking Birth Desperately Birth Certificate Something Previous Through Had She Learned Discovered Effects Child Died Children Wanted After Which Then Certificate Original Her

Today, whenever I'm under pressure to make a decision on a transaction but I don't know what the right one is, I try desperately to postpone it. I'll insist on more information - on doing extra laps around the intellectual parking lot - before committing. I take the same approach with people, too. Stephen A. Schwarzman

Today People Try Decision Pressure Insist Before Extra Too Right One Desperately Approach Postpone More Parking Parking Lot Take Know Make Around Doing Intellectual Lot Same Committing Transaction Whenever Information Laps Right

Everyone starts out desperately trying to make a hit, but some people are just more mistake-prone than others. I happened to be fairly mistake-prone. Of the 40 shows I made, I'd say ten were hits, which is a pretty good average. Stephen J. Cannell

Good People Made Some People Starts Desperately Others Everyone Say Out Some Pretty Pretty Good Ten More Make Fairly Were Hit Than Trying Hits Just Happened Which Average Shows

If you chase something too desperately, it eludes you. Steve Coogan

You Too Desperately Eludes Something Chase

You realise that there's nothing more endearing than people who are desperately trying to be liked or trying to be the hero, you know? Who also probably just need a hug or want to impress their dad? Taika Waititi

I would have to have some tragedy and romance in my life, but I've actually had a very cushioned, caring upbringing. I'm desperately seeking some edge. Maybe I'll find it one day. Taron Egerton

Life Day My Life Edge Desperately Caring One Day Would Find Some Seeking Had Tragedy Very Upbringing Maybe Romance Cushioned Actually

I'm not serving in office because I desperately needed 99 new friends in the U.S. Senate. Ted Cruz

Desperately New Because New Friends Friends Office Senate Serving Needed

I know there's a great deal that Arnold Schwarzenegger could teach me about making movies. There's a great deal I could teach him about the fiscal reforms that are needed - desperately needed - to set California back in good order. Tom McClintock

Good Great Me Great Deal Desperately Back About Could Know California Him Schwarzenegger Arnold Arnold Schwarzenegger Deal Making Fiscal Making Movies Reforms Order Movies Teach Needed Set

It's hard to describe how bloody awful music was, how desperately bad it was, how our 1960s heroes had become boring and useless. Not only were they bad - they were badly dressed. Tony Wilson

Music Heroes Become Desperately Our Bad Boring Dressed Only Had Badly How Were Bloody Hard Useless Describe Awful

In New York, working at the foundry, I was making these little figures. I desperately would like to make big figures, but I just can't do it; my hands don't do it. We were talking about making bronze plinths, and then we made one, a square one. I wrote on it, then I put a little figure on top, and it just looked really good. It worked. Tracey Emin

Good Made Big Desperately Top Bronze Would About Put New Like Looked Wrote Make Talking Making Were Square Hands York Just New York Little Then Worked Really Working Figure Figures

I was a very unconfident teenager. I wanted desperately to fit in. Trinny Woodall

Desperately Teenager Fit Very Wanted

They're desperately searching for meaning in their lives but they will not crack the Bible open. Victoria Jackson

Bible Will Desperately Open Crack Meaning Searching Lives

I desperately want a dog, but I've been told I travel too much, and I'm not allowed to have a dog. Victoria Pratt

Travel Dog Too Much Too Desperately Allowed Been Want Much

So, I think China desperately needs to legitimize some form of opposition. William C. Kirby

Needs Think Desperately Some Opposition Form China

For some time, I thought being a producer would be a more fulfilling career than being an actor. But then I went to a conference in Cannes with 300 other producers, all desperately chasing finance for their projects... and realized being an actor wasn't so bad after all! William Kircher

Finance Time Thought Chasing Other Desperately Projects Bad Would Would-Be Some More Than Conference Being Cannes After Realized Then Producer Producers Fulfilling Actor Career

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