Be desperate Quotes

“If you hold onto a man hoping someone else won't get them you have learned how to be desperate, not wise.”

“A higher speed on the wrong path is very is fatal! Don’t be desperate about going ahead with the highest speed. First of all, be sure you are on the right track.”

“Take my books away, and I should be desperate!”

“Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.”

“A thing can be true and still be desperate folly, Hazel.”

“You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.”

“All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.”

“I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.”

“I suppose one has to be desperate, to be a successful writer. One has to reach a rock-bottom at which one can afford to let everything go hang. One has got to damn the public, chance one's living, say what one thinks, and be oneself. Then something may come out.”