Quotes About Crisis

But you couldn't live forever in crisis mode. Eventually it stopped feeling like a crisis.

Value is relative," said the saint. "A man with his house on fire and a man dying of thirst each place a different value on a glass of water.

What the country faces is not a crisis of leadership but a crisis of followership.

Here we go," the Skull sighed. "Cue crisis!

There's nothing like imminent disaster for putting an end to bickering

This city,' said George, 'is going to hell in a handcart.

Well, when you're being held at gunpoint by a geriatric madman in a metal skirt, you've kind of hit rock bottom anyway," George said. "It can't really get much worse.

A lot can go wrong in twelve hours.

N]o one ever eats an ice-cream cone at a funeral, or a fire. The Red Cross doesn't drop ice-cream cones into third-world countries. If you're eating an ice-cream cone, it's just very hard to believe things have gone completely to shit. That there isn't still hope.

But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.

Probably the worst time in a person's life is when they have to kill a family member because they are the devil. But otherwise it's been a pretty good day.

Advice is least heeded when most needed.

la crisis ecológica inevitable causada por el capitalismo y la Modernidad17

El país, que nació con un atraso de siglos para construir un régimen de libertades cívicas y bienestar económico, perdería décadas preciosas en una discordia civil que a la postre lo conduciría a la bancarrota, el descrédito, la violencia interna, la guerra exterior y el desmembramiento del territorio.

El aumento del número de parejas rotas en nuestros días es una manifestación de la crisis de la persona, que se encuentra perdida de sí misma, desorientada y a merced del hedonismo, el consumismo, la permisividad y el relativismo.

Está claro que en un mundo en crisis de valores como el nuestro todo vale, todo es tolerable, admitimos cualquier cosa, en concreto todo lo referido al pensamiento y las ideas.

Hay una novedad en la psiquiatría americana: los sujetos adictos al psicoterapeuta son personas que sufren crisis de identidad, no se encuentran a sí mismas, están perdidas o no saben cómo son ni lo que quieren en la vida.

hombre de hoy no sabe a dónde va, y esto quiere decir que está perdido, sin rumbo, desorientado. Tenemos dos exponentes claros al respecto: en los jóvenes, la droga, y en los adultos, las rupturas conyugales.

Desde que tiene uso de razón oye decir que nos hallamos en un periodo de máxima crisis, en una transición catastrófica hacia una nueva cultura. Pero lo apocalíptico ha estado siempre, en todas las épocas.

Cualquier crisis es sólo, en el fondo, la proyección de nuestra angustia existencial. Quizás nuestro único privilegio sea simplemente estar vivos y saber que vamos a vivir todos juntos o por separado.

Voy a suicidarme, la comida de papá está en el horno.

The fact that large, solvent, heavily regulated banks would not lend to each other—or would lend to each other only at historically unprecedented interest rate premiums—and not lend to each other even overnight, was persuasive evidence, universally accepted by policymakers, that the crisis was essentially one of illiquidity.

If a systemic crisis occurs, the FDIC may rescue a bank in the non-least-cost-way—for example, by paying off creditors who are not covered by deposit insurance or keeping a bank temporarily alive when it is insolvent—when nonpayment of creditors or the bank's failure would threaten the system.

By contrast, in a liquidity crisis only one creditor can save the debtor: the government. There is no competitive market that offers emergency loans during a liquidity crisis. This means that the government can dictate terms. It can also neglect the interests of other stakeholders or discriminate among them for political reasons. The risk of abuse is far higher than it is in a normal bankruptcy.