A Quote by Agatha Christie

Desperate ills need desperate remedies.

Agatha Christie

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Desperate Ills Need Remedies

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Agatha Christie
English - Writer
September 15, 1890 - January 12, 1976

Football is based on desperation. All clubs are desperate in one form or another - desperate to succeed, desperate to survive, desperate to stay where they are, desperate that things get no worse, desperate to arrest the slide.

Simon Barnes

Desperate affairs require desperate remedies.

Carl von Clausewitz

In New York, everyone's desperate for success, desperate for money and desperate to be accepted, but in London they're more laid back about things like that.

David Bailey

My 20s were all about feeling desperate. Desperate to find a new boyfriend. Desperate to get the perfect job. Desperate to get rid of this terrible relationship with this bad new boyfriend.

Jessi Klein

It blows my mind when I actually consider that men are as human as I am. How can you possibly be as human and have all of the thoughts and feelings that I have and never be able to talk about it, ever? Guys are in desperate need of truth telling. They are in desperate need of a revolution.

Glennon Doyle Melton

He asked, "what makes a man a writer?" "well," I said, "it's simple, it's either you get it down on paper or you jump off a bridge. writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers." "are you desperate?" "I don't know.

Charles Bukowski

When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.

Samuel Johnson

We have on the one hand a desperate need; hunger, sickness, and the dread of war. We have, on the other, the conception of something that might meet it: omnicompetent global technocracy. Are not these the ideal opportunity for enslavement? This is how it has entered before; a desperate need (real or apparent) in the one party, a power (real or apparent) to relieve it, in the other.

C. S. Lewis

Desperate men do desperate things when you take hope away. And that's where the Palestinians are today.

Chuck Hagel

I'm not desperate to sign, like, a record deal. I'm very hungry, but I'm just not desperate for it.

Little Simz

I'm not yet desperate enough to do anything about the conditions that are making me desperate.

Ashleigh Brilliant

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

Suzanne Collins

In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.

Jesse Jackson

There arc no such things as desperate situations. Only desperate men.

Adolf Hitler

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.