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Quotes About Crises

Business crises energize me. Personal crises devastate me. The doctors call it an avoidance tendency. (Mirena to Eve)
~ J.D. Robb, Glory in Death
The purpose of this pamphlet is to explain how local currencies work. Alone they cannot solve all the multiple financial, social and environmental crises we face, but they are an increasingly important part of the answer.
~ John Rogers
Most political crises—the decisive votes, which determine the fate of Government—are generally either on questions of foreign policy or of new laws; and the questions of foreign policy come out generally in this way, that the Government has already done something, and that it is for the one part of the legislature alone—for the House of Commons, and not for the House of Lords—to say whether they have or have not forfeited their place by the treaty they have made.
~ bagehot walter vii
I write about the emotional crises that we face in our lives. Readers tell me that they identify with my characters. They know them. They are them. I'm an everyday woman writing about everyday people facing not- so-everyday challenges. And believe me, I love readers like you to bits. I've built my career one reader at a time. I owe a dept of gratitude to you all!
~ Barbara Delinsky
I believe that education should be about healing the earth and dealing with the crises that we are in.
~ Sonam Wangchuk
Like so many other families, we too have faced crises, difficulties, and heartbreak.
~ Jim Bob Duggar
The best way to begin genuine bipartisanship to make America stronger is to work together on the real crises facing our country, not to manufacture an artificial crisis to serve a special interest agenda out of touch with the needs of Americans.
~ John F. Kerry
People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.
~ Patricia Hewitt
Apart from the emergency aid we provide to alleviate the sufferings of victims of natural disasters, calamities and crises, we worked for transforming U.A.E.'s charity activities into an institutional activity with an aim of making them more effective and sustainable.
~ Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Only under conditions of revolutionary crises do you have the highest level of self-organization; this is the Soviet type of organization, which is to say, workers' councils, people's councils, call them what you want, popular committees.
~ Ernest Mandel
Think how weird profit margins are: We've got high unemployment and financial crises - and world record profit margins. People think the American market is very cheap. We don't. The market quite incorrectly gives full credit to today's earnings.
~ Jeremy Grantham
In this time of national crises...per haps we would do well to spend a few minutes in considering projects which grace and embellish the earth, instead of shaking it.
~ Hubert H. Humphrey
Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt.
~ Susan George
The attempt to resolve its problems by turning the Eurozone into a bigger Germany is going to prove unworkable. If this is not understood – and it is not, as yet, where it matters – further crises seem certain.
~ Martin Wolf
The voices that speak to us at particular moments in our lives, especially during transitions or crises, imprint themselves with a force that later voices never quite displace.
~ Arthur W. Frank
Capitalism is destroying the planet. The two old tricks that dug it out of past crises--War and Shopping--simply will not work.
~ Arundhati Roy
Capitalism's real "gravediggers" may end up being its own delusional cardinals, who have turned ideology into faith. Despite their strategic brilliance, they seem to have trouble grasping a simple fact: Capitalism is destroying the planet. The two old tricks that dug it out of past crises—War and Shopping—simply will not work.
~ Arundhati Roy
That's why liberals are constantly discovering new crises that require more government solutions.
~ Jonah Goldberg
In other words, the world will face the threat of financial crises as long as risk-taking and maturity transformation remain central to finance, and as long as humans remain human. Unfortunately, disaster will always be possible.
~ Ben S. Bernanke
Recessions can be triggered by many causes, or combinations of causes.
~ Ben S. Bernanke
in part because financial crises are (fortunately) rare enough that relevant data are scarce.
~ Ben S. Bernanke
They also were unable to find an exact precedent in earlier financial crises that could serve as a model. During
~ Ben S. Bernanke
What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?
~ Virgil
Glyphosate is only one of more than 80,000 registered commercially produced chemicals in the U.S. Some of these compounds, such as PFOA and the one I made my name investigating, hexavalent chromium, have also been convincingly linked to health crises - testicular cancer in the case of PFOA and lung cancer in the case of chromium-6.
~ Erin Brockovich