Dire Quotes
126 Dire quotes by 120 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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If animals had a Pope," Major Thompson said to me, "their Vatican would be in London. And if by some dire submarine cataclysm that noble…
— Pierre Daninos
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Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.
— Walter Scott
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If I've learned anything in the more than 50 years that I've led MDA, it's that the generosity of the American people knows no bounds.…
— Jerry Lewis
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This writer, who is horribly perspicacious and vigorous, demonstrates the certainty of a great European war, and regards it with the peculiar satisfaction excited by…
— George Gissing
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People don't realize what a brilliant politician Lincoln was. Looking back, we want to ascribe a level of providence to his every decision but he…
— Henry Louis Gates
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In Tanzania, the chimps are isolated in a very tiny patch of forest. I flew over it 13 years ago and realized that, basically, all…
— Jane Goodall
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Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
— Euripides
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I think what makes me different from the average Joe is that I feel free to be myself and express myself in the way that…
— Paloma Faith
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy,…
— Naveen Jain
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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it…
— William James
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The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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In dire economic times, movies are relatively inexpensive entertainment for the whole family.
— John Lasseter
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When I became CEO of Xerox 10 years ago, the company's situation was dire. Debt was mounting, the stock sinking and bankers were calling. People…
— Anne M. Mulcahy
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Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful…
— Thomas Szasz
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Five hours' New York jet lag and Cayce Pollard wakes in Camden Town to the dire and ever-circling wolves of disrupted circadian rhythm.
— William Gibson
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