Extraordinary Measures Quotes

#1. I think the facts reveal that the European partners have taken extraordinary measures to help Greece address its problems.

Lucas Papademos

#2. I'm absolutely convinced that the threat we face now, the idea of a terrorist in the middle of one of our cities with a nuclear weapon, is very real and that we have to use extraordinary measures to deal with it.

Dick Cheney

#3. Paradoxically, preserving liberty may require the rule of a single leader-a dictator-willing to use those dreaded 'extraordinary measures, which few know how, or are willing, to employ.'

Michael A. Ledeen

#4. Extraordinary measures were required and I realize that not all of these steps were popular.

Tom McCall

#5. Victory, union, faith, identity, time,
The indissoluble compacts, riches, mystery,
Eternal progress, the kosmos, and the modern reports.
This, then, is life;
Here is what has come to the surface after so many throes and convulsions."
-from "Starting from Paumanok

Walt Whitman

#6. There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won't stand for that.

Steve Martin

#7. A dream is not what you see when you sleep. It is what keeps you from falling asleep.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#8. A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.

Jean De La Bruyere

#9. ...therefore all childish fear must be put away.

John Muir

#10. Never get discouraged because you got fired

Sunday Adelaja

#11. It can be scary to be everywhere else for a long time. I always feel that I'm safe at home, near my family.

Aurora Aksnes

#12. but he did not change his purpose, nor did the universe invite him to change. It accepted the choice; no more preventing him than it prevents a child playing with fire or a fool destroying his love. It has not our kindness or our decency; if it is good, its goodness is of another kind than ours.

Charles Williams

#13. The extraordinary exertions of the colonies, in cooperation with British measures, against the French, in the late war, were acknowledged by the British parliament to be more than adequate to their ability.

Mercy Otis Warren