Do every day or two something for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.
William James
[on Josef von Sternberg] It was apparent that von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich had a very close professional relationship. But it was only, in my experience, professional, without any love element. I got along with von Sternberg reasonably well, as all ...
Gary Cooper
While I was into many different types of music, and played with many different local groups, I really didn`t have a band to call my own until Dire Straits was formed in 1977.
Mark Knopfler
Though slow to develop, terrorist humor has done all of this. Political satire has been particularly valuable in challenging the seemingly lockstep wartime outlook, reminding us that even in dire times it is always prudent to question authority.
Paul Lewis
This war is being played in the realm of public opinion and has dire consequences for our soldiers in Iraq, the future of our country, and freedom around the world.
John Doolittle
There was a period of time on Fox News on Tuesday, where every report that we were getting up and down the Gulf Coast was more dire than the report previously. This went on for a period of six to eight hours, and the enormity of this destruction was revea...
Bill Hemmer
The White House has embarked on a mission to convince the people of our country that Social Security is in dire need of drastic change in order to save it for all workers.
Barbara Boxer
The goal of the symposium is not to focus solely on dire predictions commonly attributed to climate change but rather to assess its impact and seek solutions while we emphasize how communities that feel its consequences are coping with its effects right n...
Auwalu Haruna
The dire circumstances are that you`ve got people who have been without insulin or oral medications for four days now, and they`re dying,
Nicole Johnson
The best you can say is that the German economy remains in dire straits and under duress and as far as what it means for policy... it`s a beacon call to the ECB to cut rates,
David Brown
Our next vacation means much more to us than a new car, and we would never sacrifice the former for the latter except in a case of dire necessity.
Audrey Bierhans
On this National Agriculture Day, when we all should be taking time to thank and pay tribute to America`s farmers, ranchers and their families who produce the food for our tables, we are finding those same people in dire need of our help and support.
Amanda Weber
Of course, tax revenues have ended up being substantially higher than they were at the time these dire projections were made, and we are very close now to having a balanced budget. All that has been very helpful.
Alan Gummerson
It`s time to stop defending a system that is clearly in dire need of reform, stop issuing reports and setting up new roadblocks, and start providing Americans with prescription drugs that are both safe and affordable.
Alexandra Larsen
I feel very confident that Americans flying in the air are safe and that only under the most dire of circumstances would our pilots ever even request permission to do that.
Alexei Ponikarovsky
Climate warming is a certainty in our future and the bottom line in this analysis is that we looked at the impact of the warming and the long-term prognosis is clear and very dire,
Tim Barnett