Langdon Cheves Quotes

Desperate situations always lead to desperate acts.

You get into a situation where your back's up against the wall and you don't have any option but to go out swinging, so you might as well go for it.

Nora: What are you planning? Patch: I wouldn't call this planning. I'd call this throwing a Hail Mary with seconds left on the clock.

I want good and different parts, different from what I've done.

Well it's a drastic procedure by your standards and mine, but for the people who are living in desperation perhaps the best way to understand it is that it seems no more drastic to them than circumcision.

People under siege turn to us in complete frustration and I get a chance to go in when it's do or die.

I can't do anything else. So if this falls through, I'm screwed.

Well, listen, you know, the Czech saying is, you know, when you are drowning you are grabbing even a little twig. That's what all Czechs were doing, grabbing for... with the hope for this little twig.

I hit big or I miss big.

It's not normal to go into a house and see a pond in the middle of the living room full of baby sharks. It's not normal to go to someone's garage and see a private plane.

Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.

We did it with passion; we didn't do it like everyone else. Teams nowadays are still trying to duplicate that, but no one has yet. We shuffled down and we did it. We did it in an unique fashion.

Hey, any time you're throwing bodies over board it is to save yourself.

One very important element for me to make a movie is, it has to be unique and different from any other.

I'm not qualified for anything else, so I would imagine I'd either be doing something larcenous or I would have already been caught.

Desperate affairs require desperate measures.

I know my theories and findings are hard for you to accept because they are so original and extraordinary.

I enjoy provocative things that are questionable.

Our cause being almost lost, something decisive and great must be done.

A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy.

Desperate times require desperate measures. Violence is not only the answer. It is the only answer.

Desperate maladies require desperate remedies.

When things become too prepared, the life comes out of it.

Trump is a different politician. He was a different businessman. His campaign was different. What you saw in his campaign is what you're going to see in his presidency.

Here is no choice but either do or die.