Quotes About Crisis

We are living through a period bereft of a future. Waiting for that which is to come is no longer a matter of hope, but of anguish.

Tut! Tut!' cried Sherlock Holmes. 'You must act, man, or you are lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for despair.

The central premise is that a historically particular and even peculiar relationship between democracy and truth took root roughly two hundred fifty years ago on both sides of the Atlantic, and this relationship has shaped political life into the twenty-first century—in the United States and with important variations, in capitalist democracies around the globe. To understand the apparent crisis in truth today requires grappling with this history.

Toda mi familia se crece con la presión. Es como el lema familiar, o algo así. Con la excepción de mi hermano Peter, desde luego, que sufrió una crisis nerviosa. Pero a los demás nos sienta de maravilla, en serio.

There's always a blip! There's always a crisis! Every year you put off doing anything fun—

Look at us, passengers in the grip of fear, watching the pilot of the vessel go to pieces.

and now a plague has struck the city.

When everything is at risk, good judgment, not haste, makes the difference between life and death. Panic is the enemy.

Governments know that the life of the world cannot be saved if the soul of the world is allowed to be lost.

I have to have a meaning in my life. If I roam around without some meaning in my life, I'm in deep and serious trouble. I can't, I just can't exist.

Life and families and babies are all joyous gifts. But if we do not begin to truly account for our numbers, we will surely create an ecological crisis that will only lead to anguish and despair.

We are not far away from the point of no return when it comes to life on earth, and we have some radical choices to make.

I awoke with an insatiable desire to end my life.

A society living by the laws of the world is moving towards a global crisis in all spheres of life

In your walk with Christ, you shall meet crises, but, when crises arise, remember Christ!

using incantation as a nonchemical tranquilizer to ward off stress, and to assure yourself that everything is fine when everything is emphatically not fine, is much more problematic. In a time of crisis when keeping a level head and going on with life is crucial, it can have a valid place, but if it's being used to drown out the still small voice that warns of approaching danger, it's an invitation to disaster.

As a result, the facts concerning nearly every significant crisis we face can thus be divided up neatly into two entirely separate categories. The facts that most Americans are willing to talk about belong to one of these categories. The facts that matter belong to the other.

The kind of SUV environmentalism that waxes rhapsodic about all the things everybody else ought to do for the environment, while doing few or none of them, is not a viable response to the crisis of our time.

If the eurozone collapses, its epitaph should be the words of Jean-Claude Juncker, the former prime minister of Luxembourg, in 2007: "We all know what to do, but we don't know how to get re-elected once we have done it."32

the most crucial source of dissatisfaction, which provoked the most explicit threats to hold up money, was religion.

For a depressed person, there's something reorienting about a crisis. It reminds you there's a world outside your head. Instead of fretting over the future or stewing over the past, you have something new to put in the brain.

Create a Sense of Urgency.

reducing complacency and increasing urgency they had taken exactly the right first step in potentially saving the colony.

There was a shift in consciousness underway, but by the end of '67 I felt like we'd gone too far. I actually considered doing something spectacularly terrible to get America's attention on what was going on with us, because we were sort of driving society over a cliff.