Desperate Times Call For Desperate Measures


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That if desperate times call for desperate measures, then I'm free to act as desperately as I wish.
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I could have lied. I could have fought. But desperate times call for desperate measures, so I took a...
ALLY CARTER
Given the sad state of affairs of the activity habits of our young people, desperate times call for ...
CEDRIC BRYANT
Desperate affairs require desperate measures.
HORATIO NELSON
Bush going up with negative ads this early in the season only proves that desperate times call for d...
JANO CABRERA
Like carnivores to carnal pleasuresAs are we to desperate measures.
HARVEY DANGER
In desperate times, the most desperate tend to listen to the loudest.
MORAKENG SEKGOKA
We have chaos in the street. We have people who are desperate. They are hungry, they haven't slept, ...
CYNTHIA MCFADDEN
Like carnivores to carnal pleasures
As are we to desperate measures.
HARVEY DANGER
In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
JESSE JACKSON
So you would think that at this moment, I would be in utter despair. Here's what's strange. The main...
SUZANNE COLLINS
Desperate maladies require desperate remedies.
PROVERB
Desperate maladies require desperate remedies.
FRENCH PROVERB
Desperate affairs require desperate remedies.
HORATIO NELSON
desperate times offered a certain flexibility in the rules of absolution.
DAN BROWN
We've been in a desperate situation. (The 0-2 start) was a wake-up call.
TUBBY SMITH
You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you.
ARTHUR GOLDEN
It was a desperate thing to do.
MIKE RILEY
They make you do desperate things.
MIKE STOOPS
Desperate times call for desperate measures" is an aphorism which here means "sometimes you need to ...
LEMONY SNICKET
In New York, everyone's desperate for success, desperate for money and desperate to be accepted,...
DAVID BAILEY
Desperate people did desperate things, became avatars of unexpected tragedy.
PAOLO BACIGALUPI
My 20s were all about feeling desperate. Desperate to find a new boyfriend. Desperate to get the per...
JESSI KLEIN
When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
ROBERT BURN
Diseases desperate grownBy desperate appliances are relieved,Or not at all.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
It's a new jury, so I guess we have a new alibi. I would call it a desperate and insulting attempt t...
ERIC DUBIN
Diseases, desperate grown, By desperate appliance are reliev'd, Or not at all.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I learnt not to be desperate in bad times and am learning not to be bullish when times are good.
JOHN ELKANN
There's a desperate need for new approaches,
PETER ADAMSON
Shakespeare's Iago could be played as a soul in hell, driven, dark and desperate, willing to do anyt...
LAURA LEE GUHRKE
لا شك أن الحب قادر على تغيير كل شئ فى حياة الانسان خلال �...
PAULO COELHO
He loves her like a gambler loves a fast racehorse or a desperate man loves whiskey. That kind of lo...
DOROTHY ALLISON
The desperate usually succeed because they have nothing to lose.
JODI PICOULT
Don't dare a person who has nothing else left to lose.
SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS
"My passion is not to climb the hearts and demolish them but to take staircase to know the height of...
AROOBAAKHEEL
My future is just a mirage. The more I expect from it, it just turns out to be mere reflections.
MARIA K
Desperate Housewives.
SEX AND THE CITY
Desperate Housewives'
MARCIA CROSS
Desperate Housewives
MARC CHERRY
Sequels are desperate.
ADAM MCKAY
Desperate Housewives.
AND CITY
Desperate Housewives,
ALFRE WOODARD
There are some people who call themselves great achievers and they are also desperate for the spotli...
EUGINIA HERLIHY
We are so desperate for dollars and for volunteers.
KATHLYN CUNNINGHAM
You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.
YITZHAK SHAMIR
Better be a desperate single with many options than a desperate married with no option.
AMEN MUFFLER
I'm not yet desperate enough to do anything about the conditions that are making me desperate
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT
Hope is believing in something that eludes you. It's a desperate feeling in a desperate situation.
CARROLL BRYANT
'Desperate Housewives' proved there was a thirst for it,
STEPHEN MCPHERSON
He sounded pretty desperate,
DENNIS MOORE
What we really are desperate for is next-generation content.
TIM BAJARIN
You start getting a little bit desperate. And when you're desperate and talented, usually something ...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI
I thought we were all kind of desperate housewives. Mine was just a little more desperate than they ...
MARY-LOUISE PARKER
I always keep a cool head all the time but some desperate times need me to always reconsider my stan...
OLASOT
The thing is and I know this is going to sound strange- that I seem to love you sort of desperately.
L.J. SMITH
They came in here a desperate team. They played desperate and we didn't. We have to look into the mi...
BOB HAMLEY
desperate candidate without a message.
KATE MURRAY
Tempt not a desperate man.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Politics is a desperate business.
DAN BROWN
We're a very small group, and we are desperate for volunteers.
BARBARA BROWN
[Dribblers: Flores said Sacramento's charge into the playoffs was fueled by a dominant starting rota...
ERIC BYRNES
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate ...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate ...
OGDEN NASH
You have to be a little desperate when you're a man down and more desperate when you are two men dow...
DOMINIC MOORE
The only people who are desperate to go on the show are people we're desperate not to have on the sh...
GRAHAM NORTON
People are killed. Their animals are looted. Their food stocks are burnt. They're chased from their ...
MARCUS PRIOR
Therm-bombs! Drop ’em right on us! I been roasted before—it’s nothing!
HENRY V. O'NEIL
Are we not all desperate one way or another?
TAYLOR CALDWELL
The small wad of burning paper drew down to a wisp of flame and then died out leaving a faint patter...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
You're reaching out
And no one hears you cry
You're freaking out again
'Cause all you...
DAVID ARCHULETA
This is truly a desperate situation.
JAMES WOMACK
This was a good game on our part in the desperate part of the game.
CHRIS DRURY
Shoot, I was desperate. I wanted to win.
MIKE TYSON
desperate last throw of the dice.
TONY BLAIR
You can't make mistakes on them and we made some mistakes. (The Pistons) were desperate. We didn't h...
CUTTINO MOBLEY
I have lads here who have played for Dunfermline or who played under Davie at Livingston and they ar...
JIM MOFFAT
What we have here is a desperate and disappointed bidder.
RENEE MONTGOMERY
Legends were not only for the desperate. Legends were for the brave. (Soren)
KATHRYN LASKY
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally de...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Dire times call for dire measures. We're going to cut in-service days. We're not spending more on te...
CHRIS SIMON
Desperate is not a sexual preference.
RANDY K. MILHOLLAND
Desperate courage makes One a majority.
ANDREW JACKSON
Desperate situations make heroes and cowards.
TROY J. GAINEY
I never let myself get desperate.
KIM ALEXIS
You start getting desperate. For us, frustration set in a little early.
BILL MCFADDEN
To be desperate in your search for something is to get it
SUNDAY ADELAJA
They don't play with enthusiasm until they get desperate. They've got to get desperate right away. T...
GREG MAUCH
Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. We saw a need that needed to be filled, and we ...
BENET WILSON
A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy.
GUY FAWKES
It was looking pretty desperate out here.
KIRK ANDERSON
There's this huge number of desperate people.
LLOYD ALEXANDER
A desperate man is a manipulated man.
DAVID CARVALHO
So many of them have desperate needs.
BILL EASTBURN
The international situation is desperate, as usual.
TOM ROBBINS
Clearly Parsons and top management are desperate,
JEFF CHESTER
I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged.
MAGGIE ROWE
Nothing is so dangerous for our security as large groups of desperate people.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
I think 'Desperate Housewives' whetted the appetite for 'Sex and the City' refugees.
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I don't know, I feel desperate when I sing. And I look desperate - it feels like I'm singing...
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Ever so welcome, wait for a call"
(West Indian proverb)
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