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  • Our idea of what constitutes social good has advanced with the procession of the ages, from those desperate times when just to keep body and soul together was an achievement, to the great present when "good" includes an agreeable, stable civilization accessible to all, the opportunity of each to develop his particular genius and the privilege of mutual usefulness.

    Frances Perkins (1934). “People at work”
  • Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

    Atheist   Prayer   Book  
  • 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. Nothing they did was really illegal.

    "Steven Spielberg & Daniel Day-Lewis interview, LINCOLN". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. November 9, 2012.
  • Desperate times call for desperate measures" is an aphorism which here means "sometimes you need to change your facial expression in order to create a workable disguise." The quoting of an aphorism, such as "It takes a village to raise a child," "No news is good news," and "Love conquers all," rarely indicates that something helpful is about to happen, which is why we provide our volunteers with a disguise kit in addition to helpful phrases of advice.

    Love   Children   Mean  
  • In desperate times, much more than anything else, folks need perspective. For perspective brings calm. Calm leads to clear thinking. Clear thinking yields new ideas. And ideas produce the bloom...of an answer. Keep your head and heart clear. Perspective can just as easily be lost as it can be found.

    Life   Heart   Thinking  
    Andy Andrews (2009). “The Noticer: Sometimes, All a Person Needs is a Little Perspective”, p.154, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • That if desperate times call for desperate measures, then I'm free to act as desperately as I wish.

  • Desperate times call for desperate measures. That's a saying, or a bit of advice, or a catchprase, or a string of words used to confuse people less intelligent than you. In any case, it means: Life is tough, so you'd better fight hard-or something like that.

    Obert Skye, Ben Sowards (2007). “The Whispered Secret”, p.204, Simon and Schuster
  • I just wanted to make sure that yes, that those horror - they worked as a genre. To me, I just wanted to be touched by the film in the way that I saw plausible. Which is the story about compassion - giving and receiving it in those desperate times of need.

    "Vera Farmiga and Paranormal Investigator Lorraine Warren Talk THE CONJURING, the Nature of Evil, Their Relationship, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintarub, collider.com. July 17, 2013.
  • Desperate times breed desperate measures

  • The main thing I feel is a sense of relief. That I can give up this game. That the question of whether I can succeed in this venture has been answered, even if that answer is a resounding no. That if desperate times call for desperate measures, I am free to act as desperately as I want.

    Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.75, Scholastic Inc.
  • Desperate times call for desperate analogies.

  • There have been times when I felt suicidal and I would stop my head from going in that direction of negativity because I thought there'd be something I'd miss that was funny in the future. If there's a chance I'm going to laugh tomorrow then want to live to experience that.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Keep your head and heart clear. Perspective can just as easily be lost as it can be found.

    Twitter post from Nov 04, 2014
  • I could have lied. I could have fought. But desperate times call for desperate measures, so I took a chance and called upon a Gallagher Girl's weapon of last resort. I flirted

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