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.

To put up a show is to face life's injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people their imagination.

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence but we cling desperately to our chains.

Solutions-oriented campaigning with a little passion and a little humor I think that will go a long way. I think people are desperate for it.

There are no ideas in the Republican Party right now in the Congress. They're the party of no. They desperately need some intellectual leadership. And whatever you think of Newt Gingrich he can supply intellectual leadership. So I hope he does run.

To not be self-conscious of your appearance is huge and something that I desperately hope to carry into film at some point in my useless life - to not be thinking 'My ear looks weird from this angle why is the camera over there?'

A person who no matter how desperate the situation gives others hope is a true leader.

One must always hope when one is desperate and doubt when one hopes.

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients are forced to seek medication on the black market.

With any child entering adolescence one hunts for signs of health is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie.

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

I was really desperate. I don't know if you can remember back that far but when I went to graduate school they didn't want females in graduate school. They were very open about it. They didn't mince their words. But then I got in and I got my degree.

I do not believe the picture that some people paint of Scottish towns dependent on welfare. Every time I come here I meet people who are determined to get into work. Who with the right help are desperate to get off benefits support their family and set an example for their children.

If one is desperate for love I suggest looking at one's friends and family and see if love is all around. If not get a new set of friends a new family.

Education should be one of our top funding priorities talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.

For-profit higher education is today a booming industry feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate admirable and noble kind of love.

My friend and I sang an a cappella rendition of Extreme's 'More Than Words' at one of our football pep rallies in a desperate attempt to look cool. For a while I wore pink Converse All Stars because I thought it made me seem daring and irreverent.

I am desperate for change - now - not in 8 years or 12 years but right now.

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.

Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.

I think people are used to seeing actors be wide open and desperately giving of themselves and while I do that on a movie set as much as I can it's so unnatural for me to do it on television in interviews in anything like that. I also don't find that my process as an actor is really anyone else's business.

Business practices and how we treat the planet are also in desperate need of re-humanization.