“There are no desperate situations, there are only desperate people.”

“writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers.”

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

“But desperate people find courage.”

“I have never been in a fight where the situation wasn't desperate at one point, colonel.”

“Desperate people will do what they must to survive. Only a fool would expect the results to be pretty.”

“Remember; no matter how desperate the situation seems, time spent
thinking clearly is never time wasted.”

“Desperate psychotic people do desperate psychotic things when they’re exposed. I refuse to grant them immunity from exposure out of fear of their reaction. When you do, the desperate psychos wind up in charge.”

“Superheroes were born in the minds of people desperate to be rescued.”

“In situations of sparse resources along with degraded self-images and depoliticized sensibilities, one avenue for poor people is in existential rebellion and anarchic expression. The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people.”