Crisis Quotes · Page 34

When life attains a crisis, man’s focus narrows. […] The world becomes a stage of immediate concern, swept free of illusion.

— Jim Thompson

We can choose this moment of crisis to ask and answer the big questions of society's evolution — like, what do we…

— Paul Gilding

There isn't a more important issue in the world than global warming. Even the Cold War and the Bay of Pigs crisis…

— Simon Beaufoy

In a crisis, we will destroy exactly the weapons. Russia will never again fight on its own territory .

— Sergey Karaganov

Germany has acted effectively during the euro crisis. It needs to build on this to engage in other spheres too.

— Joachim Gauck

A true friend is distinguished in the crisis of hazard and necessity; when the gallantry of his aid may show the worth…

— Quintus Ennius

It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible.

— Fidel Castro

At some point, I kind of went through this weird existential crisis in high school where I was just really depressed.

— Gus Dapperton

[Newlyweds,] these optimistic young bastards, promise to honor and cherish each other through hot flashes and mid-life crises and a cumulative 50-pound…

— Jenna McCarthy

I tried to sell mortgages for just under a year and saw the tail end of the mortgage crisis. I was not…

— Tim Dillon

But these days, there's also a strong economic argument for doing away with capital punishment. With California facing its most severe fiscal…

— John Van de Kamp

I did love that scene in the movie [ "Our Brand Is Crisis"] because it's like "The Wizard of Oz." You see…

— Sandra Bullock

It is, I think, particularly in periods of acknowledged crisis that scientists have turned to philosophical analysis as a device for unlocking…

— Thomas Kuhn

Heavy handedness and entitlement goody bags are no way to solve our immigration and border crisis, but I've learned to expect almost…

— Lisa Kennedy Montgomery

When the U.S. Government shows a proper appreciation of the services of the Negro who has never failed it in every crisis…

— Francis James Grimke

There hadn't really been a climate movement, per se. I think everyone spent twenty years thinking that if we just keep pointing…

— Bill McKibben

It then becomes necessary to stop short and make a choice: Either/Or. Either one drifts with their absurd system of ideas, believing…

— Paul Goodman

“FLIES IN DISGUISE Tell me, Have you Really seen Flies in a child's eyes Or heard their hungry cries In the middle…

— Suzy Kassem

Funny thing about those Middle Ages, said Joseph. "They just keep coming back. Mortals keep thinking they're in Modern Times, you know,…

— Kage Baker

Too much of the world's happiness depends on taking from one to satisfy another. To increase my standard of living, someone in…

— Eugene H. Peterson

The ever-mounting glut of waste materials is characteristic by-product of modern consumer society. It might even be argued that capitalism's continual need…

— Stuart Ewen

In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bad schools, crime, drugs, high taxes, the social security mess, racism, the health care ? crisis? unemployment, welfare state dependency, illegitimacy, the…

— Larry Elder

I have to be honest with you. Islam is on very thin ice with me... Through our screaming self-pity and our conspicuous…

— Irshad Manji

Trump's rise to power, fueled by hatred and portending crisis, threatens to eviscerate our constitutional system of government.

— David Brock

I had observed people whose identity crises around race seemed analogous to other people's identity crises around gender.

— Jess Row

Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to…

— George William Curtis

Now our Earth is swarmed with issues such as life, death, illness, wars, economic crises and many others. It is time that…

— Yayoi Kusama

“There's only one thing to do in crisis like this - SLEEP ON IT! Garfield, the cat.”

— Jim Davis

The financial crisis that began in the summer of 2007 was an extraordinarily complex event with multiple causes.

— Ben Bernanke

September and October of 2008 was the worst financial crisis in global history, including the Great Depression.

— Ben Bernanke

In a crisis, the man worth his salt is the man who meets the needs of the situation in whatever way is…

— Theodore Roosevelt

A great nation cannot abandon its responsibilities. Responsibilities abandoned today return as more acute crises tomorrow.

— Gerald R. Ford

“To exploit living labour, capital must destroy dead labour which is still useful. Loving to suck warm young blood, it kills corpses.”

— Amadeo Bordiga

The AIDS crisis has brought us a consciousness of the immune system as the most important health-maintenance element, and a consciousness of…

— Gloria Steinem

If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a…

— Anonymous

Whenever democracy has fallen into a crisis, the Korean people have sprung up in rage.

— Moon Jae-in

I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He's not crazy, it's just the litany of the mid-life crisis.

— Bret Easton Ellis

These numbers are staggering, in fact incomprehensible. By all accounts, we are dealing with the greatest health crisis in human history.

— Nelson Mandela

There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.

— Terence McKenna