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I could rest and it might heal quickly. But I'm desperate to play and score goals for South. That's all I want to do.

I do understand why a desperate engineer still use a hammer to solve a hard problem. I think, that made him more humane.

I am absolutely desperate to win, purely to see Jeremy Clarkson's face as I do a little celebratory conga on stage.

Health insurance scams are a huge problem. We've seen huge increases in health insurance premiums, and that makes consumers very desperate for affordable alternatives.

Gov. Blagojevich is working to improve health care and education and to pass a jobs bill and assault weapons ban. Silly, negative distortions from a desperate campaign are sad and irrelevant.

Nothing more or less than the deepest, most desperate desire of our hearts.

The Hallows, the Hallows. A desperate man’s dream!

I might be needy, competitive and desperate but it's far better than being wet.

Once you base your whole life striving on a desperate lie, and try to implement that lie, you instrument your own undoing.

I never let myself get desperate.

I just want my name back so my life can go back to chaotic and weird instead of chaotic and desperate.

But desperate people find courage.

There is now a desperate need for a London-wide left caucus of those interested in the GLC and local councils so that we can compare and discuss what is happening in each borough.

Legends were not only for the desperate. Legends were for the brave. (Soren)

The desperate usually succeed because they have nothing to lose.

The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.

As lives go, I'll take the quietly desperate over the radically bipolar.

Haiti is in desperate poverty.

For a desperate disease a desperate cure.

Nothing is so dangerous for our security as large groups of desperate people.

Anyone who is desperate or alone will agree there is comfort in routine.

I've never met anyone who wanted to be a terrorist. They are desperate people.

And I suppose tapes are a desperate attempt to steal something from Death's suitcase.

But a desperate heart will seduce the mind.

Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen.

We celebrities are desperate pigs.

For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live ...

A LeBron James team is never desperate.

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

And now I understand that truth casts a spell of its own, one I'm not sure of how to hold on to, though I'm desperate to try.

You can only laugh. I've heard desperate living is never pretty. Madison Avenue cares about two things: ratings and demos.

The truth is, you can't sort of bottle and prepackage a show like Desperate Housewives. But I think the nice thing is, we know that audiences are making a commitment to serialized drama. And absolutely, we're going to continue to develop in that genre.

The true numbers can only be guessed at. Thousands of Somalis arrive in Yemen every year, including an estimated average of 100 people per day during the annual September to March period of good sailing weather. Last September, UNHCR called for international action to stem the flow of desperate people across the Gulf of Aden after at least 150 people died in a three-week period.

These are desperate days for the Bush campaign with the president's job approval in the danger zone,

These are desperate criminals, probably involved in the drug trade in some way. They're violent, and they do want you home.

These are a sign of how desperate we've become.

These kids have nothing to be ashamed of; they played a great season. I don?t think a lot of teams anticipated we would be here. We?re desperate to get some respect down in the York area. Most of the Portland-area schools don?t even know we exist. We want to let them know that we?re around and that we can give anybody a game.

These kids are so desperate for the dream that almost nothing will deter them. Most of the time, they will follow blindly.

This is a great opportunity for individuals to support charities that are in desperate need of the monies. This eliminates their federal and state tax liabilities.

The hymn of the low and the humble, the weary, the broken in heart,Who strove and who failed, acting bravely a silent and desperate part.

The hymn of the low and the humble, the weary, the broken in heart, Who strove and who failed, acting bravely a silent and desperate part.

The Endangered Species Act is in desperate need of an update, ... It has hurt species recovery by leading to the trend we all know as 'shoot, shovel and shut up.' And it has hurt family farmers and ranchers by taking their property away.

The character was so desperate herself that she related to all those singers. I particularly like those singers. They were my favorites.

The greatest thing is to have word of mouth. Advertisers are desperate to get people to talk about their product.

The inbox is a dangerous place. People have an impossible time determining the validity of their incoming email. There is a desperate need for authentication.

Although fighting in the Liberian capital has currently subsided, tens of thousands of men, women and children displaced by the recent fighting are still living in desperate conditions in rudimentary shelters with minimal access to health care.

And it wouldn't be a Desperate Housewives game if you couldn't try to steal a neighbor's husband, too.

The first three years of life are incredibly important. We know now that babies are really in desperate need of stimulation.

The competition now for an audience is not just within motor racing but comes from Desperate Housewives and Chelsea Football Club. We want kids to grow up saying they want to be a racing driver when, at the moment, they want to be pop stars or footballers.

She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life.

I'd be smiling if I wasn't so desperate. I'd be patient if I had the time.

The Desperate Housewives scent is guaranteed to be a hit with women everywhere, connecting them in a very personal way to this popular series.

The disaster is still really going on, in terms of health care. We have to take all the patients who come in because so few hospitals are open, yet we don't have staff. All the hospitals that are open are in desperate need for staff.

The internet means record companies have to fight a bit harder. I think the bands are probably in a stronger position, as they are not so desperate for the record company to magic up the audience. They come with an audience.

The longer he's out there the more desperate he becomes. He's out there without food, out there without water. We suspect he will start moving.

I'm less desperate now to express what's inside me, that's true - I act these days because it keeps me awake and interested, an eternal student.

Desperate times call for desperate analogies.

From Toscanini I learnt the essential and desperate seriousness of making music.

Once a week, I am a very desperate man.

I was the British spy who had come out of the woodwork and told it how it really was, and anything I said to the contrary only enforced the myth. And since I was writing for a public hooked on Bond and desperate for the antidote, the myth stuck.

Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it.

There's this huge number of desperate people.

Those that dare lose a day, ate dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, are desperate.

I swim with all my strength. No superhuman surge, or pony heroics; it's just me at my most desperate.

Adolescence involves our nutty-desperate-ecstatic-rash psychological efforts to come to terms with new bodies and outrageous urges.

Maybe it'll stop you trying to be so desperate about making more money than you can ever use? You can't take it with you, Mr. Kirby. So what good is it? As near as I can see, the only thing you can take with you is the love of your friends.

I guess the GOP may be more desperate than I thought to call somebody like me.

When a person feels so trapped and no options, they become desperate and in the middle of desperation.

I have a desperate longing to have a desperate longing

When things are really desperate and hopeless and you can't do anything about this, and there's a sense that something must be done, that is something usually leads to the U.N.

I'm not one of those people who are desperate to get married.

The Brothers Grimm came along and I was so desperate for work ... Actually I've got to say that I like the movie, I won't apologize for it.

Sometimes that's all life is... One desperate act after another.

No, truth is something desperate, an' she's got it. Believe me, it's something desperate, an' she's got it.

Who could be more desperate than filmmakers?

My disease is one of the best things that has happened to me; it has pulled me out of a quietly desperate life toward one full of love and hope.

He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday.

Paradise is to be the ultimate instrument, fulfilling God's desperate intent that we love each other.

Madonna reinforces everything absurd and offensive. Desperate womanhood. Madonna is closer to organized prostitution than anything else.

When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.

A thing can be true and still be desperate folly.

To annihilate the world by annihilation of oneself is the deluded height of desperate egoism.

Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel,

Some folks hide, and some folks seek, and seeking, when it's mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous can be a form of hiding.

Desperate, yet no longer alone after that day, because we'd found each other.

I know. I was hoping," I say. "Exactly. Because you're desperate," says Haymitch. I don't argue because, of course, he's right.

That’s the funny thing about knowing you can’t have something. It makes you desperate. -Leah

All I want to say is that when you stop being delusional and start feeling desperate because you're too inept to figure this out on your own, you know who to come to.

Something is profoundly wrong and we are desperate for justice, for restoration and for somebody somewhere to do something about this.

The best evangelists, the best preachers, the best teachers are desperate people.

The desperate addict is closer to the heart of grace than the devout moralist.

Can you imagine a silence so desperate to be heard?

I feel like what I have become is halfway between my mother and my father, violent and impulsive and desperate and afraid. I feel like I have lost control of what I have become.

At the beginning, you should only hire when you have a desperate need to.

Clearly it is not the lovelorn sufferer who seeks solace in chocolate, but rather the chocolate-deprived individual, who, desperate, seeks in mere love a pale approximation of bittersweet euphoria.

You don't dare think whole even to yourself the entirety of a dear hope or wish let alone a desperate one else you yourself have doomed it.

Haste is needful in a desperate case.

We are all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that fueled that 60's. That was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary's trip. He crashed around America selling "consciousness expansion" without ever giving a thought to the grim meat-hook realities that were lying in wait for all the people who took him seriously... All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy Peace and Understanding for three bucks a hit. But their loss and failure is ours too. What Leary took down with him was the central illusion of a whole life-style that he helped create... a generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers, who never understood the essential old-mystic fallacy of the Acid Culture: the desperate assumption that somebody... or at least some force - is tending the light at the end of the tunnel.

It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

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