Desperate Times Call For Desperate Measures Quotes

• Keep your head and heart clear. Perspective can just as easily be lost as it can be found.

  Andy Andrews

  Heart, Perspective, Lost

  Twitter post from Nov 04, 2014

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• 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.

  Andy Andrews

  Life, Heart, Thinking

  Andy Andrews (2009). “The Noticer: Sometimes, All a Person Needs is a Little Perspective”, p.154, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Desperate times breed desperate measures

  William Shakespeare

  Desperate Measures, Problem, Desperate Times

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• Desperate affairs require desperate measures.

  Horatio Nelson

  Desperate Measures, Affair, Horatio

  "The Book of Military Quotations". Book by Peter G. Tsouras (p. 54), 1992.

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• 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

  Mean, Fighting, Intelligent

  Obert Skye, Ben Sowards (2007). “The Whispered Secret”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

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• That if desperate times call for desperate measures, then I'm free to act as desperately as I wish.

  Suzanne Collins

  Catching On, Desperate Measures, Catching Fire

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• It's time to get your head out of the dumps and your legs in the air!

  Karen Walker

  Air, Legs, Dump

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• For extreme diseases, extreme methods of cure, as to restriction, are most suitable.

  Hippocrates

  Disease, Restriction, Cures

  Hippocrates (1849). “The Genuine Works of Hippocrates”, p.699

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• Desperate times call for desperate analogies.

  John Diamond

  Analogies, Desperate, Desperate Times

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• 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.

  Daniel Handler

  Love, Children, Mean

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• 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

  Giving Up, Desperate Measures, Games

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.75, Scholastic Inc.

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• 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

  Ally Carter

  Girl, Desperate Measures, Weapons

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