Keeping it simple for the consumer is incredibly dire.

- Bob Iger

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.

- Euripides

When you put your characters in a dire situation, they often do things that surprise even you, so you have to go back and revise your original conception of who they are.

- Hallie Ephron

It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls.

- Mary MacLane

Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.

- Nic Pizzolatto