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Dire Quotes

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
Margaret Sanger quote: "Dire poverty drives this mother back again to the factory (no..."
Dire poverty drives this mother back again to the factory (no intelligent person will say she goes willingly). Margaret Sanger
Arise now, arise, Riders of Thoden! Dire deeds awake, dark is it eastward. Let horse be bridled, horn be sounded! Forth Eorlingas! J. R. R. Tolkien
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. Daisaku Ikeda
Henry James quote: "New York is appalling, fantastically charmless and elaborately..."
New York is appalling, fantastically charmless and elaborately dire. Henry James
Today history is no more than a thin thread of the remembered stretching over an ocean of the forgotten, but time moves on, and an epoch of millennia will come which the inextensible memory of the individual will be unable to encompass; whole centuries and millennia will therefore fall away, centuries of paintings and music, centuries of discoveries, of battles, of books, and this will be dire, because man will lose the notion of his self, and his history, unfathomable, unencompassable, will... Milan Kundera
The characteristic note of our time is the dire truth that, the mediocre soul, the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be mediocre, has the gall to assert its right to mediocrity, and goes on to impose itself where it can. Jose Ortega y Gasset
Simon Armitage quote: "Oh dire, dreadful death, you drag your heels. Why dawdle and..."
Oh dire, dreadful death, you drag your heels. Why dawdle and draw back? You drown my heart. Simon Armitage
Edward Gorey quote: "More is happening out there than we are aware of. It is..."
More is happening out there than we are aware of. It is possibly due to some unknown direful circumstance. Edward Gorey
Alexander Pope quote: "What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty..."
What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things,... Alexander Pope
There were many who went in huddled procession,They knew not wither,But, at any rate, success or calamityWould attend all in equality.There was one who sought a new road,He went into direful thickets,And ultimately he died thus, alone;But they said he had courage. Stephen Crane
It was a lie but he believed in telling lies to people. Truth telling and medicine just didn't go together except in dire emergencies, if then. Mario Puzo
Ours is not the first generation to understand the dire need for health reform. And I am not the first president to take up this cause, but I am determined to be the last. Barack Obama
The question is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists. Martin Luther King jr.
He gave me a look of great contempt; as I supposed, for venturing, even by implication, to draw a parallel between a lack of affluence that might, literally, affect my purchase of rare vintages, and a figure of speech intended delicately to convey his own dire want for the bare necessities of life. He remained silent for several seconds, as if trying to make up his mind whether he could ever bring himself to speak to me again; and then said gruffly: 'I've got to go now. Anthony Powell

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