Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jacques Chirac

I feel very well, and I was starting to feel desperate to leave,

Ideally, you're desperate every week, ... It's hard to get a win in this league no matter how good you are, so whether you're 0-3 or 3-0, that next win is tough to come by.

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.

If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.

Mike Williams

Jackson is to be commended to extend something like this, however (in this case) this is a desperate move to win this election.

Josh was desperate to play last Saturday and should be okay and Leigh is moving much more freely than he was.

Chris Drury

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

What we have here is a desperate and disappointed bidder.

Henry David Thoreau

It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

Laura Bush

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.

He needs to train well, but it is probably doubtful to be honest. We'll give him every opportunity, he is desperate to play. It is probably less than 50-50.

But people are desperate and there are people, including many of my constituents, who need any kind of relief. I am not going to stand between them and these $400 cheques.

The Government (in Algeria) is desperate to get projects like this.

Daniel Alfredsson

We've had some injuries, we went into a slump and we've played some teams that are more desperate than us in some cases.

There could hardly be a more desperate predicament than to fall through the ice and have no one around to help you.

William Shakespeare

Desperate times breed desperate measures

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.

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,

Bob Geldof

Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best

Steve Coppell

We were desperate for a left side, and the videos landed in our lap.

We've got a very stern test here. They're going to be a desperate bunch, and that's something they're not used to. We're in the same boat, so it should be a good football game.

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

With the Giants desperate for a victory, it was an obvious strategy for them to pitch around the Tigers' most potent hitter.

William Shakespeare

This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property ordoes itself and leads the will to desperate undertakings.

Paula McLain

I wrote a lot of poetry when I was a teenager - mostly desperate love poetry!

We're desperate. We're in a desperate situation, and the prospect is not good.

We're desperate now. It's only going to be more desperate.

Graeme Souness

Michael is desperate to go but with hamstrings we have to be extra cautious.