Dire Straits Quotes (7 quotes)

“We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“Juliet, the dice were loaded from the start. / When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet?”
― Mark Knopfler

tags: dire-straits, mark-knopfler, pop-rock, rock, romeo-and-juliet, song, song-lyrics

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“This is home, it's the only place I want to be, but at the same time everything familiar feels strange. It's the same as it ever was except without the people who most belong here.”
― Jael McHenry (The Kitchen Daughter)

tags: dire-straits, family, home, love

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“You sometimes need to be in dire straits to find out who is loyal to you.”
― Jeffrey Fry

tags: dire-straits, find-out, loyal, need, sometimes

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“He looked at me. His firm, broad face showed weight-loss in deep shadows under the cheekbones, his eyes were sunken and his mouth sorely chapped and cracked. God knows what I looked like, when he looked like that. He smiled. 'With luck we shall make it, and without luck we shall not.' ”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

tags: dire-straits, luck

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“I roll my eyes at him then pick up the phone. ‘Do you have his number?’

He reels it off from memory. My surprise must have shown on my face, because he comments, ‘I can chew gum and walk at the same time too.”
― Harper Helen

tags: dire-straits

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“Their situation is extremely tense, strung like the tautest tightrope, and could be cut with the dullest blade.”
― Trent Lindsey, Those Wyrd and Wonderful

tags: dire-straits, tense

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