Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antonio Guterres

When food becomes scarce, refugees often turn to desperate measures to feed themselves and their families. We are particularly worried about the health of the refugee population, domestic violence and refugees resorting to illegal employment or even to prostitution, just to put enough food on the table.

William Shakespeare

Desperate times breed desperate measures

Horatio Nelson

Desperate affairs require desperate measures.

Miguel de Cervantes

Necessity urges desperate measures.

Steven Spielberg

Desperate times require desperate measures. What Lincoln and the Lobbyist for the Amendment and the Manager of the Amendment and himself, what they did to get this passed was not illegal. It was murky, but what they did was noble and grand. How they went about it was somewhat murky, but nothing they did was really illegal.

Richard Simmons

I took desperate measures to lose weight and did terrible things to myself. I went from diet pills to thirty laxatives a day to throwing up.

Joe Volpe

We are producing more jobs than the labor market has workers for ... we're desperate for immigration,

Kathleen Blanco

When folks who are desperate are trying to get home, it just makes it more difficult for us to get to folks whose lives are in danger.

Nate Corddry

Coffee shops are everywhere, especially in Los Angeles, chock full of sad sacks desperate to make sure their screenplays make it into the right hands... or any hands, for that matter. The one thing that makes a coffee shop truly great, though, is charm.

Alberta Stima

We're getting desperate for help because some of our substitutes are not always available.

Kevin Lygo

We're fortunate in having Lost, Desperate Housewives and My Name Is Earl but it is fiercely more competitive out there than ever before. This May you'll see a feeding frenzy.

Jonathan Sacks

(Yahoo) is now so desperate over the fact that they are losing several experienced software engineers with years of experience in the mobile industry, that they are now taking the exact opposite legal position.

Tom Stafford

Let's not forget those folks that are in such desperate need,

Willie Mitchell

When you're a desperate team, you do whatever it takes.

Ashleigh Brilliant

I'm not yet desperate enough to do anything about the conditions that are making me desperate.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

All of my life I have always had the urge to do things better than anybody else.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The one who pulls is the one they urge on.

Carl Sandburg

The more rhymethere isin poetry the more dangerof its tricking the writer into something other than the urge in the beginning.

D. J. MacHale

I have a sudden urge to pee.- Spader