Quotes About Crisis

If you take the hard numbers, then science is clearly telling us that we're running out of time.

By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening, another 30,000. This does not make sense.

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

Don't you know. I am a ticking time bomb. I'm going to explode. This time, I may never be able to recover from it!

Sometimes, the decisions have to be taken in minutes, even seconds, and there would be no time to make the right decision. We understood that this could have ended in catastrophe.

When you have a time of crisis what happens depends on what ideas are floating around, and what ideas have been developed, and thought through, and are made effective.

We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems.

The real danger with debt is what happens if lots of people decide, or are forced, to pay it off at the same time.

We live in a time of crisis in the secular culture and in the church with regard to the beautiful.

Climate change: We have never faced a more critical time on our planet

The destruction of the personality is the great evil of the time.

Our theology is still in a time of crisis, and I think this will last for some years more.

In time of peril, like the needle to the loadstone, obedience, irrespective of rank, generally flies to him who is best fitted to command.

The last time the world was three degrees warmer than today-which is what we expect later this century-sea levels were 25m higher. So that is what we can look forward to if we don't act soon.

In the autumn of 1929 the mightiest of Americans were, for a brief time, revealed as human beings.

We are now running out of time, and the question now is not what is happening to the climate, but how bad will it be before the world starts doing enough?

The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.

Those who are already feeling the effects of climate change don't have time to deny it - they're busy dealing with it.

In the last two years 24 countries have set new all-time temperature records. We've seen flooding on an epic scale in every continent .

Time is running out for the climate

When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.

We live in a very scary time. Or should I say we don't live at all.

If we are to save humanity and the planet from the worst mass extinction of all time, worse even than that at the end of the Permian, we must stop at two degrees.

If you want to have a character who falls into crisis, all you have to do is turn the Internet off, and then we all understand how that feels, when you suddenly just have time and yourself.