Crisis Quotes · Page 121

Forest nations willing to do more than their fair share to solve the climate crisis should be rewarded through results-based payments.

— Paul Polman

In a crisis the true facts are whatever other people say they are.

— Don DeLillo

We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift.

— Al Gore

Historical experience shows that a crisis causes either a recovery or catastrophic consequences.

— Sergei Lavrov

I didn't want to hear the usual answers about what's wrong because I believe these are symptoms: global warming, genocide, hunger, poverty,…

— Tom Shadyac

The single most remarkable (and revealing) fact of the Obama presidency may very well be the lack of a single prosecution of…

— Glenn Greenwald

You [President Kennedy] have made some pretty strong statements about their being defensive and that we would take action against offensive weapons.…

— Curtis LeMay

Materialism is an identity crisis.

— Bryant H. McGill

That's how I am and how I've always looked at the world. I understood what the pavilions were before I came to…

— Mark Bradford

When the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys.He becomes a sort of hollow,posing dummy,the conventional figure…

— Anonymous

Because we [the USA] are so powerful, our failures resonate more. In some ways, the worst victims of our institutional and elite…

— Chris Hayes

With apologies to the green movement, "sustainability" is a myth. History and archaeology show that societies are always moving to the edge…

— Arthur Demarest

American business would be run better today if there was more alignment between CEOs' interest and the company. For example, would the…

— Aubrey McClendon

People are enduring more than a temporary financial crisis. We are witnessing a fundamental shift in the economy. Companies and industries will…

— Jeff Jarvis

It's like we're suffering from an identity crisis, and that identity is in our arts and the fact that we don't find…

— Wynton Marsalis

When children arrive, or when some crisis occurs, couples don't have the resources to deal with it because they've been so busy…

— Janet McTeer

War is an episode, a crisis, a fever the purpose of which is to rid the body of fever. So the purpose…

— William Faulkner

One day I woke up, had an early mid-life crisis, and decided it all had to change. I went and did Logan…

— Greg Davies

We all share a type of physical body that becomes ill or heals for the same reasons. We also share emotional and…

— Caroline Myss

When I was in government, the South African economy was growing at 4.5% - 5%. But then came the global financial crisis…

— Thabo Mbeki

I think I'm a bit like Ishmael in 'Moby Dick': a story teller and an observer in his own crisis.

— Mark Kurlansky

What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident.…

— Jeannette Rankin

I had my religious crisis after the war, not during the war.

— Elie Wiesel

There had been lots of crises in my life. And there was plenty of spunk and battle cry still left in me.

— Ethel Waters

Critics, often for good reason, are concerned that the Fed is wielding its vast powers in the interests of the banks and…

— Gerald Epstein