{"quotes":[{"text":"The best don’t stick around when you treat them poorly, only the desperate do.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["class","confident-women","desperate","dignity","fools","higher-standards","integrity","letting-go","moving-on","quality","self-confidence","self-respect","self-worth","warrior-women"],"id":1011,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness.","author":"Joseph Conrad","tags":["atheism","blame","desperate","enemies","friends","guilt","hate","immortality","lifeboat","loneliness","love","mental-illness","mortality","society","stranded"],"id":19320,"author_id":"Joseph+Conrad"},{"text":"You're desperate, and so am I,' I said. 'Desperate people make stupid decisions all the time.''P244.","author":"Veronica Roth","tags":["carve-the-mark","decisions","desperate","desperation","divergent","stupid","veronica-roth"],"id":36408,"author_id":"Veronica+Roth"},{"text":"A monk's extraordinary patience can be a hindrance to desperate decision-making.","author":"Harsha Bhogle","tags":["extraordinary","desperate "],"id":46235,"author_id":"Harsha+Bhogle"},{"text":"Sometimes we are that fly in the house, that thinks it sees an open window. So it crawls to, or flies head-on into clear glass. At times getting stuck between the storm and pane, it dies in the windowsill under a tormenting, hot sun.","author":"Anthony Liccione","tags":["clear","crawl","crystal-clear","dealing-with-trouble","deceive","desperate","flee-from","fly","fool","give-the-impression-of-being","glass","grass-is-greener","head-on","hot","house","hurt","illusions","imaginations","mirage","not-as-it-appears","not-picture-perfect","pains-in-life","reality","sad","seeking-escape","seem","storms-in-life","stuck","tormenting","torture","trap","trick","unhappy","wishing-something-better"],"id":46414,"author_id":"Anthony+Liccione"},{"text":"Chasing a man is not winning. The only thing you win is the loss of your dignity. Confidence is knowing your value, instead of expecting a man’s love to provide you with value.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["bad-karma","bargain-basement-prices","betrayers","cheaters","competition","dating","dating-advice","delusion","desperate","dignity","dogs","ego","empowerment","examples","exiting","eye-openers","false-confidence","false-happiness","forgetting","games","lack-of-value","lesson-in-life","letting-go","losing","love","low-self-esteem","marriages","men","mistakes","moving-on","observations","on-sale","pathetic","players","positive-women","regaining-control","relationships","revelation","sad","self-respect","self-worth","staying-positive","teenagers","the-good-life","truth","value","wasted-time","women"],"id":52460,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"God is in desperate search for those sons he could send to the world of sports to rule and manage it for him.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["could","desperate","god","is","manage","rule","search","send","sons","sports","those","world"],"id":56151,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Obsession and desperation for your goal, gets you the goal.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["aim","desperate","desperation","goal","goals","human","humans","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","motivation","motivational","motivational","obsession","philosophy","success","successful","target","wisdom","wisdom"],"id":61526,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"Fear tells me that while there might be a host of people who wish to stand beside me in times of crisis, the tangled wreckage is sometimes so enormous that the best of their efforts leave them stranded at a great distance. And standing desperately alone surveying the carnage that holds all others a bay, God suddenly taps me on the shoulder, leans over and whispers, 'how about a little demolition?","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["afraid","alone","carnage","crisis","demolition","desperate","desperately","destruction","faithful","fear","fearful","fearing","frightened","god","isolated","jesus","jesus-christ","lonely","paralysis","stranded","trial","wreckage"],"id":66137,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Shakespeare's Iago could be played as a soul in hell, driven, dark and desperate, willing to do anything, willing to use anyone, in order to escape from that hell.","author":"Laura Lee Guhrke","tags":["desperate","hell"],"id":67612,"author_id":"Laura+Lee+Guhrke"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":72,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}