Quotes About Dire

And to add confusion to confusion, there was the servant, an unceasing menace, that appeared noiselessly at his shoulder, a dire Sphinx that propounded puzzles and conundrums demanding instantaneous solution.

You claim to see. Have you ever glimpsed a vision of the future that proved true?" I hadn't. I hadn't, because every dire vision I'd been afforded, I'd found a way to avert.

Will you be my conscience, hellcat?" He sounded amused. "I do not jest," she said. He held back her hair and traced his forefinger along her temple. "Nor I. I am in dire need of one.

Healthcare in the U.S. remains a dire mess, and the Obama presidency, unfortunately, didn't really address that.

We build up the feeling of insecurity or security by how we think. If in our thoughts we constantly fix attention upon sinister expectations of dire events that might happen, the result will be constantly to feel insecure. And what is even more serious is the tendency to create, by the power of thought, the very condition we fear.

If in our thoughts we constantly fix attention upon sinister expectations of dire events that might happen, the result will be constantly to feel insecure.

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 whether we trouble to think and talk Christianly, and therefore theologically, about anything we or others may do or say, may turn out to have dire results.

The word "dreadful," even when used three times in a row, did not seem like a dreadful enough word to describe everything that had happened.

These are desparate times. - Stephanie Plum

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.

Driving from the shop by the beach to her home in the Malibu hills, Juliet Weston peered through the deepening dusk and weighed the merits of bathing in Super Glue. A dab would repair a fingernail. She'd read a line of the stuff could close a wound. What she faced was more dire, however. Would immersion in a tub of maximum-hold adhesive keep her from fracturing into a thousand little pieces?

circunstancias desesperadas exigen medidas desesperadas.

Russell looked as though he were in very dire need of a trip to the bathroom.

The option to use active-duty forces in a law enforcement role should only be used as a matter of last resort. And only in the most urgent and dire of situations.

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.

The World Health Organization did a world health report in 2006. In the whole world about 60 countries are in dire situation in terms of having enough doctors. And many of these countries are in Sub-Saharan Africa. You know, that part of the world alone needs one million doctors.

In short, there is no illusory grace left to the poverty that reigns here; it is dire, parsimonious, concentrated, threadbare poverty; as yet it has not sunk into the mire, it is only splashed by it, and though not in rags as yet, its clothing is ready to drop to pieces.

It's simple - veterans have received some of the best training available and want to contribute after they return to civilian life. The emergency medical training they get during their military service is in dire need.

The economy is after all driven by people. No matter how dire the situation may be, as long as people are firm, a turnaround, revival and progress can be possible.

Things were pretty dire when Ruth was the healing agent.

To Wiener, there seemed every possibility that computers and other such technologies of the cybernetic age—he would later coin the phrase "the Second Industrial Revolution"—would have consequences just as dire. Inevitably, he felt, the rich and the powerful would seek to use these new technologies of communication and control to cement their power even further.

In dire economic times, movies are relatively inexpensive entertainment for the whole family.

Some day I should like to run a competition to find out the unfunniest clown in Shkespeare. There's a lot of choice from that dreadful lancelot Gobbo to the superlatively unfunny Feste. Nobody can make me believe that even the groundlings laughed at them, unless, as I suspect, the dire lines were enlivened by rude gestures,