Quotes About Crisis

It takes guts to be married to someone who, in times of crisis, may be more available to strangers than to his or her own family. It takes determination to stay home alone at night, fortitude to go to a party by yourself, persistence to be both mother and father, and spunk to say what you really think. It might even take courage for you to read this book.

When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time.

When you meditate all day on the inopportuneness of birth, everything you plan and everything you perform seems pathetic, futile. You are like a madman who, cured, does nothing but think of the crisis from which he has emerged, the "dream" he has left behind; he keeps harking back to it, so that his cure is of no benefit to him whatever.

Arbori masacraÅ£i. R?sar case. Mutre, mutre pretutindeni: omul e cancerul P?mântului.

La conciencia ha convertido al animal en hombre y al hombre en demonio, pero todavía no ha transformado a nadie en Dios, y ello a pesar de que nos vanagloriamos de haber enviado uno a la cruz.

Sauve qui peut.

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When this ultimate crisis comes... when there is no way out - that is the very moment when we explode from within and the totally other emerges: the sudden surfacing of a strength, a security of unknown origin, welling up from beyond reason, rational expectation, and hope.

The Greatest Enemies Of Mankind Are Weapons And Weapons Producing Companies. The More Advance Weapons Means More Disaster.

Some great crisis in its fate may stamp upon a race marks which neither lapse of time nor change of circumstance seem able wholly to efface; and empires may rise from barbarism to civilization and sink again from civilization into barbarism, within periods so brief that we may take it as certain, whatever be our opinion as to the transmission of acquired faculties, that no hereditary influence has had time to operate.

When Armageddon takes place, parking is going to be a major problem.

We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.

We're not going to baby sit a civil war.

It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather…I possess a tremendous power to make a child's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or dehumanized.

Just when you thought you'd reached a good place in life, a crisis could erupt and spill into the corners you thought most secure.

Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.

Underlying James's career crisis was a psychological crisis. He had to confront what was really true about himself. Faced with the competing job offer, James had been asking people, "What should I do?" instead of, "What do I really want? What gives me a sense of self-worth?

Esther Clovis might not be much of a tea-maker but she had considerable organizing ability and knew how to act in a crisis, as at this moment, confronted with the anthropologists who would not go.

in the midst of war and crisis nothing is as clear or as certain as it appears in hindsight

No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard and fast and specific decision.

The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.

Major von Kleist gave orders that a man or, if no man was available, a woman, be taken from every household as a hostage." Through some peculiar failure of the system, the greater the terror, the more terror seemed to be necessary.

For two centuries, the American arrangement has always managed to right itself under pressure without discarding the system and trying another after every crisis, as have Italy and Germany, France and Spain. Under accelerating incompetence in America, this may change.

The time to buy is when there's blood in the streets.