Dire Quotes

126 quotes by 120 authors

By 2030 the demand for resources will create a crisis with dire consequences. Demand for food and energy will jump 50% by 2030 and for… — John Beddington
I thing for female filmmakers a big issue is making their second and third films. You see the statistics, and the dropoff on the second… — Ava DuVernay
On this National Agriculture Day, when we all should be taking time to thank and pay tribute to America's farmers, ranchers and their families who… — Michael McCaul
Dire Straits is a great band. Someone tells you they like ""Brothers in Arms"" and immediately you know they're a stupid annoying git. — Alexei Sayle
...we must also acknowledge that the majority of the men and women of our time continue to live daily in situations of insecurity, with dire… — Pope Francis
In that dramatic scene on Calvary's hill three men were crucified.... All three were crucified for the same crime-the crime of extremism. Two were extremists… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Some of the best stuff can be written out of dire times — Izzy Stradlin
New York is appalling, fantastically charmless and elaborately dire. — Henry James
The bland assumption that the Church's life will continue to be fruitful so long as we go on praying and cultivating our souls, irrespective of… — Harry Blamires
Fantasy for me as a kid was real, and I had a fantasy about what life was, whether it was sort of wicked and dire,… — Diana Wynne Jones
Christians don't seem to be as aware of, or as sensitive to, the dire state of humanity as they are about the pleasant growth of… — Larry Norman
Wars don't happen on battlefields; they go on happening in people's hearts for generations and generations, and the ecological damage is unfathomably complex and dire. — Michael Leunig
I turn my eyes to the schools & universities of Europe And there behold the loom of Locke whose woof rages dire, Washed by the… — William Blake
MoveOn loves government. It remains enamored of government spending as fuel for its liberal agenda; and anything that threatens to close that spigot in any… — Bob Barr
For men to focus on controlling women's reproduction to solve a society's problems seems nothing short of mad or, at best, superstitious. But men's superstition… — Marilyn French
The interesting thing about the China story, getting back to the macro and micro, and as dire as I think the macro story is -… — James Chanos
Myths about the dire effects of genetically modified foods on health and the environment abound, but they have not held up to scientific scrutiny. And,… — Nina Fedoroff
While all too many people live in dire poverty, others are caught up in materialism and lifestyles which are destructive of family life and the… — Pope Francis
The situation in the United States is becoming more dire for average ordinary Americans and the last thing we need to do is to spend… — Cynthia McKinney
Letters to the editors of English and American newspapers often contain expressions of horror about the new terms that creep into the language, and these… — Peter Farb

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