Quotes About Crisis

It's that awkward moment when you realize that the only nearby food is you. I

But we are today in very real danger of doing just that, of becoming America in name only.

Problems accumulate over a long time while few see what's happening, except the assholes who profit from the disorder. And they add fuel to the fire so gradually no one notices the decline until suddenly everything goes to shit. Then, people die. In job lots.

The world is experiencing a serious crisis, is undergoing a process of withering, which has its origins in the secularization of the soul and in the ensuing severance of a consequently purely secular soul from its roots in religiousness.

No one is obliged to take part in the spiritual crisis of a society; on the contrary, everyone is obliged to avoid this folly and live his life in order.

El mundo occidental atraviesa una grave crisis, un proceso de descomposición cuya causa es la secularización del espíritu, la separación de un espíritu mundanizado respecto de sus raíces religiosas.

It is only now, in the present crisis of modern man, whose over accentuation of the conscious, cortical side of himself has led to excessive repression and dissociation of the unconscious, that it has become necessary for him to 'link back" with the medullary region.

The identity crisis… occurs in that period of the life cycle when each youth must forge for himself some central perspective and direction, some working unity, out of the effective remnants of his childhood and the hopes of his anticipated adulthood.

What do you mean, something important? It's the middle of the night! -Sandstorm

The Clan is on fire!

Sexual abuse of children now presents society with the ultimate crisis of patriarchy, when children refuse to protect their fathers by keeping secrets.

[Photos are] our memory-keepers and our histories, the last thing we would grab [in a crisis], and the first thing you'd go back to look for.

An Emergency Tea was called.

Women only cut their hair in times of crisis... It's somethin' a woman always has the power to do, even when she loses control over everything else. Cuttin' hair is a cry for help.

sudden attack of culture snobbery is a common affliction among policemen of a certain rank and age; it's like a normal midlife crisis only with more chandeliers and foreign languages.

World ill-health is like world hunger," said Lady Helena. "We could end both tomorrow if we wanted to.

It seemed that her prospects were bleak but often when things are at their most desperate they become progressively worse leading to a spiral of despair that ends in inevitable destruction.

Barney Frank wanted to know where the Fed was going to get the $85 billion to lend to AIG. I didn't think this was the time to explain the mechanics of creating bank reserves. I said, "We have $800 billion," referring to the pre-crisis size of the Fed's balance sheet. Barney looked stunned. He didn't see why the Fed should have that kind of money at its disposal.

had helped make the Depression as terrible as it was.

I emailed, thanking her for the prompt response. "Amazing what a little credit crisis can do to motivate,

By that point, of course, subprime lending had already virtually ended.

I arrived in Washington as a quiet, reserved professor—with a research background that proved to be quite useful in the financial crisis.

the crisis management team kept in touch through conference calls and by email.

The deflation of the 1930s led to widespread bankruptcies and defaults, gravely worsening an already bad situation.