Dire Consequences Quotes

France is perilously close to its final moments.

Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.

We are at the edge of an abyss and we're close to being irrevocably lost.

Terrible times require terrible things to be done.

Finally I do like best of all stories whose necessity is in the implied recognition that someplace out there there exists an urgency-a chaos-, an insanity, a misrule of some dire sort which can end life as we know it but for the fact that this very story is written, this order found, this style determined, the worst averted, and we are beneficiaries of that order by being readers

Vietnam is getting worse every day. It’s like being in an airplane and having to choose between crashing the plane or jumping out. I do not have a parachute.

There is a serious, immediate and extraordinarily grave threat to the continued existence of this country.

Never think that by releasing me you will be free. You would only condemn us to an ultimate hell on earth. You would only free something else to destroy us both.

He knew that all the hazards and perils were now drawing together to a point: the next day would be a day of doom, the day of final effort or disaster, the last gasp.

To say that everything without exception is going straight to hell is not an alternative vision but only an inversion of the mainstream's 'everything's fine.'

The pace of consumption, waste and environmental change has so stretched the planet's capacity that our contemporary lifestyle, unsustainable as it is, can only precipitate catastrophes, such as those which even now periodically occur in different areas of the world ... we need to reflect on our accountability before those who will have to endure the dire consequences.

That's the thing about the script, is that how these people were affected by their decision, and how it could ultimately kill them, and I mean literally.

Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.

We avoid the things that we're afraid of because we think there will be dire consequences if we confront them. But the truly dire consequences in our lives come from avoiding things that we need to learn about or discover.

The lack of free, child-directed play time for our kids today will have dire consequences for these future leaders, making them less prepared to solve complex challenges and problems.

It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls.