Quotes About Crisis

My country is in the toilet. And when my country is in the toilet, the world is in the toilet.

The terrible toll the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the entire world is a reminder of the interconnection and interdependence of all of our human rights.

Consider the implications. Last time humanity was locked onto this course, it led to the collapse of the global economy and two world wars—and genocide, starvation, plague, and the detonation of nuclear bombs that wiped some 200,000 human beings off the earth and gave us the power to end our species. What manner of calamity lies ahead of us now?

When the worst comes to pass, the first feeling is relief.

Eva se dejó caer en la silla. –Ahora voy a tener que darte mi pañuelo nuevo y puede que, ya de paso, necesite un sistema nervioso nuevo. No estoy hecha para tanto drama. –¿Estás de coña? –Frankie se levantó y empezó a recoger la mesa–. Tú inventaste el drama. Podrías casarte con el drama, tener hijos con él, que por cierto se llamarían Crisis y Pánico, y viviríais felices para siempre.

Who, in 2007, would have thought that a drawing by Willem De Kooning would be a safer asset than shares in Lehman Brothers? By autumn 2008, this would clearly be the case.

You cannot meet today's crisis tomorrow.

Much of junk culture has a core of crisis shoot-outs, conflagrations, bodies weltering in blood, naked embracers or rapist-stranglers. The sounds of junk culture are heard over a ground bass of extremism. Our entertainments swarm with specters of world crisis. Nothing moderate can have any claim to our attention.

There is a feeling of death hanging over the nation. Today

said Yitzhak Rabin, addressing the first full meeting of the Israeli Cabinet since the crisis had begun on Sunday, 'I want to say that any information that leaks out today can end up costing lives. So I ask you not to behave normally regarding this issue.' In other words, speak to no one. An hour and a half earlier he had met with Yitzhak Navon, the chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs

The world is in crisis. It needs people who have the skill to combine inner power with outer action. Inner power comes from self mastery, observing and controlling the ego, and deepening integrity through a regular practice of reflection or meditation.

Negotiation is useful not only in a crisis situation, but also in management. Good negotiators work from people's interests, not their positions.

It's only when something is burning that you find out who people really are.

a leader in a crisis situation has better odds of success if she can see emotional patterns and make use of different ways to manage them.

I recall the moment I hit the existential crisis many in support hit of asking the universe, "Where are all the reasonable people?" and realized the answer was that many reasonable people don't contact support. They get answers from friends, coworkers, or by using the free documentation they find online.

Oh my God!" exclaimed Jessie the turtle, who alone immediately saw what the good doctor would say next. "And I am sad to say, my friends," concluded Doc Hansom the goatfish, "if the caulking seal breaks before the professor returns, the aquarium will likely drain and we will all die.

today, suffering from drawn out hangover, the world ran dry. Bukowski died and one third of the world's winemakers will go broke.

We have a new problem, fresh from the oven and hot as hell.

anyone in command feigns ease when death is near. We do it for those around us, and we do it for ourselves. We do it because the sole alternative is to die cringing. The difference between an experienced leader and an untested one is that only the untested one is shocked at how well they can pretend when their hand is forced.

So severe is the crisis that in 2011 Governor Rick Snyder persuaded the state legislature to grant him broad and unprecedented powers to take control of fiscally unstable local governments and to abrogate union agreements, a highly controversial maneuver that smacks of malevolent paternalism more than sound public management.

Since I could not forget the wounds to people and planet, could not unlearn the dismal numbers--of pollution and population and poverty--that foretold catastrophe, I would have to look harder for antidotes, for medicines, for sources of hope.

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In this crisis we praise you for Jesus, the high and safe Rock, the ultimate trustworthy foundation for any and every storm of life (Matt. 7:24–27). Thank you for rescuing us from building our lives on all kinds of shifting sands.

The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.