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Quotes About Dire Straits

Superficial pop will always exist - there've always been Fabians - but when people like Dire Straits and Bruce Hornsby start having hits, it suggests that there's a revolution going on in music.
~ Bonnie Raitt
we had no means of saving the firm.
~ Ben S. Bernanke
When the party becomes more important than principle, we are in dire straits
~ Ben Carson
We're in a tight spot!
~ George Clooney
Nature tries to compensate, but is not always successful and thus our planet is now in dire straits and we humans are directly responsible for it.
~ Sylvia Browne
The spirit of the kingdom undermines its defenses. People will rise against the king. A new peace is made; holy laws deteriorate. Paris has never before found herself in such dire straits.
~ Nostradamus
These are desparate times. - Stephanie Plum
~ Janet Evanovich
My favourite dish is pollo ajillo; my favourite drink is a good Rioja with it. And as for my favourite music, oh God - there's so many things I like. Well, I'd say it's 'Walk of Life' by Dire Straits.
~ Stephen Lang
He didn't know it, but he had saved her, and hopefully he would never know the dire straits she'd been in when he met her. She had come to the Napa Valley to find a man like him. She had set her sights on Sam Marshall, but
~ Danielle Steel
High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I was, you too would elevate your thoughts. The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was, in the throes of unremitting suffering, I should turn to God.
~ Yann Martel
The majority of PSSU systems won't be in dire straits if they're cut off from other systems. For a political structure like that, there's nary any point to having a federal government. For all intents and purposes, that federal government exists to maintain the military.
~ Unknown
Her name is Lysandra Keates, and she arrived uninvited on my doorstep a few days ago. I do not know the particulars of her situation as of yet, but my impression is that she is in dire straits. She has begged me to match her with a man." "I am not looking for a mistress!" Andrew snapped, but he couldn't help a brief, powerful image of the girl in the garden…in his bed, her legs wrapped around him as he drove into her.
~ Jess Michaels