“Obviously, consumers just ignored all the dire warnings and kept on spending.”
Doug Porter
“I think it's quite obvious that our situation is urgent, is dire. The bleeding that's been going on with deficit spending is something that needs to be dealt with urgently.”
Cardinal O'Malley
“Dire times call for dire measures. We're going to cut in-service days. We're not spending more on teacher housing.”
Chris Simon
“A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses”
John Milton
“Captain Kirk never burped out his lines, nor did he simply SPEAK! as IF! Every! Other! SYLlable! WAS! of DIRE! ImPORTance!”
William Shatner
“One has no great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.”
Jane Austen
“From hence, let fierce contending nations know, What dire effects from civil discord flow”
Joseph Addison
