Top 28 Direst Quotes
#1. His friends he loved. His direst earthly foe - Cats-I believe he did but feign to hate. My hand will miss the insinuated nose, Mine eyes the tail that wagged contempt at Fate.
William Watson
#2. Results outweigh any claims or promises that you could possibly make.
Idowu Koyenikan
#3. I crave to be able to photograph the way a painter paints - in a loose, expressive way.
Chris Jordan
#4. Unsex me here and fill me from crown to toe full of direst cruelty That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose. Macbeth
William Shakespeare
#5. Not that I like having my direst preconceptions about humanity confirmed or anything. But I was right.
Rob Thomas
#6. It wasn't healthy, my obsession with her, but it felt amazing. I never wanted to be apart from her. I wanted to live in her. Breathe her into me every second of every day, but reality was real, and that wasn't something I could do.
Tabatha Vargo
#7. And the Bastard grant us ... in our direst need, the smallest gifts: the nail of the horseshoe, the pin of the axle, the feather at the pivot point, the pebble at the mountain's peak, the kiss in despair, the one right word.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#8. There is no healing without hope. Despair is life's direst enemy. Despair is living death.
Penelope Wilcock
#9. For it's human nature even in the direst extremity to see a spark of hope and blow it into flames.
Leo Perutz
#10. Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
Bernard Malamud
#11. From The Skull and the Arrow:
The man went on until he saw the dark opening of a cave. He turned to it for shelter then, as men have always done. Though there are tents and wickiups, halls and palaces, in his direst need man always returns to the cave.
Louis L'Amour
#12. The direst foe of courage is the fear itself, not the object of it; and the man who can overcome his own terror is a hero and more.
George MacDonald
#13. If God put the rainbows right in the clouds themselves, each one of us in the direst and dullest and most dreaded and dreary moments can see a possibility of hope ... Each one of us has the chance to be a rainbow in somebody's cloud.
Maya Angelou
#14. Then plough deep, while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.
Benjamin Franklin
#15. These were madmen, Simon realized, and that was the direst problem of the world: that madmen should be strong and unafraid, so that they, could force their will on the weak and peace-loving.
Tad Williams
#16. Prior to 1940, the affluent and the middle class began to converge, but after 1979, the economic gap between the middle class and affluent widened significantly.
William Julius Wilson
#17. Struggle all you like, you're not going anywhere.
Megan Keith
#18. Contemporary feminism cut itself off from history and bankrupted itself when it spun its puerile, paranoid fantasy of male oppressors and female sex-object victims. Woman is the dominant sex.
Camille Paglia
#19. The change most needed in our lives isn't change in our situations and relationships but in us. The thing God is most intent on rescuing us from is ourselves.
Timothy D. Lane
#20. From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
Cato The Elder
#21. He isn't normal," Emma said, grimacing as if this were the direst insult. "He's one of us!
Ransom Riggs
#23. Fight only in direst need
Not for lust or petty greed
Honor those that do give birth
Respect them well for their full worth
Anne McCaffrey
#24. AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.
Susan Sontag
#25. Knowledge is one of our direst needs. But it is insufficient on its own. If knowledge was stripped from true up-bringing, it would increase man's strength, but not his morals.
Ameen Rihani
#26. It is calculated that George III had an astonishing fifty-six grandchildren. He did not have one legitimate heir. The vision of Charlotte had sustained the people through the direst years of the regency. Without her, all hope seemed gone.
From "Becoming Queen Victoria
Kate Williams
#27. why man found himself driven to wrongdoing in spite of good intentions, Krishna replied, Because of anger and desire, our two direst enemies.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#28. Endurance is not the frail and tenuous thing some think it, but is in reality the measuring rod of our sanity and may be safely stretched to fill our direst need.
Jan Cox Speas
