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.

Bill Vaughan

I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God.

Queen Elizabeth II

At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.

Nisha Singhania

If they had a profession at all, it had to be a noble cause. Now, it is about glamour, money, and fame.

Charles Kingsley

For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.

Blaise Pascal

Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.

Benjamin Disraeli

The noble lord is the Rupert of debate.

Tracy Brown

ODORS ARE ALWAYS OF QUESTIONABLE PARENTAGE AND NEVER OF NOBLE BIRTH.

Brandon Sanderson

Are there any religions on your list that include the slaughter of noblemen as a holy duty?

Baha'u'llah

Noble have I created thee, yet thou hast abased thyself. Rise then unto that for which thou wast created.

David Morehouse

Our lobbyists are talking about a new arena, and the development around the new arena.

Viet Dinh

This is what members of the media, members of the Washington policy community, lobbyists and members of congressional staffs do perhaps hundreds of times a day.

Mark Kirk

Alexi Giannoulias' top aide was a longtime BP lobbyist.

Ron Suskind

These were lobbyists—many of them compensated quite handsomely not to react as human beings.

Winston Churchill

Lobbyists are the touts of protected industries.