Quotes About Drastic

It's time for people in this country to go, 'Yeah, this is how it's got to be if we are all going to live on the planet, and if this planet is going to sustain itself with us on it, then everything has to change itself drastically.' If it doesn't, we'll see how long it all lasts.

Desperate times call for desperate measures.

Poverty brings people to drastic measures and that's what the hardcore gangsta rap scene is about. It's called freedom of expression. People should be allowed to express what they've been through, what they've been able to familiarize themselves with.

The White House has embarked on a mission to convince the people of our country that Social Security is in dire need of drastic change in order to save it for all workers.

No nation in the world has so many drastic problems squeezed into so small a space, under such urgent pressure of time and heavy burden of history, as Israel.

It is a paradox that in our time of drastic rapid change, when the future is in our midst devouring the present before our eyes, we have never been less certain about what is ahead of us.

I realized that improvisers should probably always have time off. But musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute - unless something drastic occurs.

She called this absolute fast because desperate situations require desperate measures.

Amersham is well out of our manor, being in the County of Buckinghamshire and thus subject to the cool and professional attentions of the TVP, who are never referred to by their colleagues in the Met as the Chav Valley Police. So as we rode the train back up the line I called ahead and let them know we would be poking about, in full uniform, around their patch. They didn't seem bothered, but they did want a firm commitment that we'd warn them before doing anything drastic

All I claimed was that when a drastic change occurs, it occurs in a relatively small and isolated population.

I like to think I'm fairly grounded, and I have friends who will very happily tell me if I'm ever being big-headed. I know things will change. But I'm hoping it's nothing too drastic.

It existed almost by oversight, "far removed from reality," as one of the "Kandy Kids" wrote, "where everyone had an academic interest in the war but found life far too pleasant to do anything too drastic about it.

I am not altogether pessimistic about neurosis. In many cases we have to say, "Thank heaven he could make up his mind to be neurotic." Neurosis is really an attempt at self-cure…It is an attempt of the self-regulating psychic system to restore the balance, in no way different from the function of dreams – only rather more forceful and drastic.

I would love to go for a bob. I want to do the chop and go drastic.

W)hen something drastic happens, there's a lag time. It's not quite denial, and not quite shock, but more like a mental free fall. You're spending so much time wrapping your mind around the problem, you don't realize what you need to do until the window to do it has closed.

You mean it's to be peace between you and Elizabeth until after the Tapestry? cried Georgie, horrified. The prospect of a cessation of hostilities was appalling, for this warfare provided him with the excitement that no other occupation could hope to offer. Isn't that a bit drastic?

The only conduct that merits the drastic remedy of impeachment is that which subverts our system of government or renders the president unfit or unable to govern.

Well it's a drastic procedure by your standards and mine, but for the people who are living in desperation perhaps the best way to understand it is that it seems no more drastic to them than circumcision.

The king of Portugal had dispatched not one but two fleets of caravels to arrest him—a drastic measure

If I pop off and do something drastic, everyone's going to realise because they know I'm 50. Anyway, middle-aged women are sensational.

We've got to take some drastic steps in this country. We can't keep spending and spending.

Governors of both political parties face a stark choice between unpopular tax increases and drastic cuts in Medicaid, education, public safety and other essential services.

desde un punto de vista meramente científico, atendiendo sólo a la lógica, no a los sentimientos, puedo asegurarte que, si no tiene lugar un cambio drástico, el fin de nuestra especie se acerca. Y ocurrirá con rapidez. No consistirá en fuego, azufre, el Apocalipsis o una guerra nuclear..., sino en el colapso total a causa de la cantidad de gente que habita el planeta. Las matemáticas son indiscutibles.

Stormin'," he said, like he was glad to note the world outside continuing on any recognizable course at all, however drastic.