Desperate Times Quotes

A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy.

When folks are in desperate times - say, like being stuck in the middle of a long-running interplanetary war - they grasp onto anything that might keep them afloat.

In our most desperate times, people going through true hardships use humor to cope.

There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only; I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within.

Desperate times make for desperate songs.

Well, listen, you know, the Czech saying is, you know, when you are drowning you are grabbing even a little twig. That's what all Czechs were doing, grabbing for... with the hope for this little twig.

Desperate times call for desperate analogies.

Violence is always the last option, but if that time comes, it is the ONLY option.

You couldn't beg, borrow, or steal a job in 1931, 1932... it was really tough.

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.

Desperate affairs require desperate measures.

I think there are specific times where film noir is a natural concomitant of the mood. When there's insecurity, collapse of financial systems - that's where film noir always hits fertile ground.

Nations in great crises and difficulties have often done that which in their prosperous and powerful hour they would not have done.

I'm not qualified for anything else, so I would imagine I'd either be doing something larcenous or I would have already been caught.

If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I'm in crisis.

If you have Palestinians who have no hope, who don't have a job, who've used up all their resources, the notion of getting rid of violence is a dream.

Rats desert a sinking ship.

In desperate times, much more than anything else, folks need perspective. For perspective brings calm. Calm leads to clear thinking. Clear thinking yields new ideas. And ideas produce the bloom...of an answer. Keep your head and heart clear. Perspective can just as easily be lost as it can be found.

God, I hope she is found alive.

People are dangerous when they have nothing to lose.

I just wanted to make sure that yes, that those horror - they worked as a genre. To me, I just wanted to be touched by the film in the way that I saw plausible. Which is the story about compassion - giving and receiving it in those desperate times of need.

If ever there was a time this country needed the intervention of God, it is now.