Quotes About Crisis

Forests are the world's air-conditioning system-the lungs of the planet-and we are on the verge of switching it off.

The man who can look upon a crisis without being willing to offer himself upon the altar of his country is not for public trust.

We simply can't trust God's power fully until we experience it in the midst of our crisis.

When we panic, we instinctively turn to our own internal resources because we doubt Him.

There is a famine in America. Not a famine of food, but of love, of truth, of life.

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth.

Every story must have such a terrible moment, or it wouldn't be interesting.

It is easier to face an emergency than to have those difficult conversations. When we go into crisis mode, we give ourselves permission to defer the kinds of conversations that politics requires. And right now, our politics requires conversations, too long deferred, about being a self and a citizen in the world of big data.

I think, my generation, it's hard to have hope when you got a $700-trillion derivatives debt to pay and a bubble about to explode and $500 trillion worth of GDP.

The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money.

Far too often, especially under stress (and few things could have been more stressful than the Entebbe crisis), we turn inward and close down. Believing that distraction is the greatest danger, our analysis simplifies in hope of increasing not the odds of success, necessarily, but the chance we will be certain about what the outcome will be.

On the day I took office, the annual inflation rate in Israel had reached a horrific 400 percent.

Vielleicht steht die Welt gerade am Beginn ihres Unterganges.

Meanwhile, the diocese had to raise $16 million. How would it do that? By borrowing $6 million and by pillaging its own parishes-- the very communities whose children had been violated by the disgraced priests. Parish bank accounts were vacuumed, parish properties were sold, parishes were merged.

Wall St. Lays an Egg.

Other than sports, only war and catastrophe can create this sort of national unity.

in business doing nothing is often the hardest thing. (And not just in business. Harold Macmillan, prime minister during the Cuban missile crisis, mused then 'on the frightful desire to do something, with the knowledge that not to do anything was prob. the right answer'.)

There's nothing like a major emergency and the almost certain death of the whole damned world to concentrate the mind wonderfully.

Invariably, people encountered the police at the worst moments in their life. It made all the difference if the officer was viewed as someone who was there to help.

First time in history, soon or later we will see an African war.

Here's a pretty state of things!Here's a pretty how-de-do!

Hi, I'm at the Speedway at Eighty-sixth and Ditch, and I need an ambulance. The great love of my life has a malfunctioning G-tube.

My mother has lived every day of her life as if it were preparation for some kind of crisis.