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Quotes About Crisis

Sometimes I wondered if I had made Joan up. Other times I wondered if she would continue to pop in at every crisis of my life to remind me of what I had been, and what I had been through, and carry on her own separate but similar crisis under my nose.
~ Sylvia Plath
Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis? But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed, Though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter, I am no prophet--and here's no great matter; I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, And in short, I was afraid.
~ T.S. Eliot
Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?
~ T.S. Eliot
those wretched refugees still mired in the camps.
~ Tamim Ansary
some seven hundred thousand Arabs found themselves homeless and stateless, living as refugees in the neighboring Arab countries.
~ Tamim Ansary
an unwanted man is a buyer with no money, and an unwanted woman is a seller with empty shelves. That is how, seemingly, the theme of the European financial crisis comes full circle.
~ Tatyana Tolstaya
Heme aquí divagando otra vez mientras estalla el mundo a mi alrededor.
~ Ted Dekker
Mine was less a crisis of doctrine than a crisis of experience.
~ Ted Dekker
Kurtlar geliyor diye ba??rma o yalanc? çoban gibi,' demekteydim gerçekte. BaÅŸka düÅŸünceler, ürpertici tan?d?k düÅŸünceler Geldiler gerili cambaz ipini geçip: 'Kurtlar geliyor diye ba??rma. Yoksa anlayamam, duymam İşler gerçekten kötü gittiÄŸinde.
~ Ted Hughes
Even now, years later, it's hard to tell why the government stood by and let the city of New Orleans be destroyed, dispatching troops rather than help.
~ Ted Rall
By the time Trump left office, more than 5,500 children had been separated from their parents and 628 children still had not been reunited with their families.
~ Julian E. Zelizer
Do not abandon ship: Some countries of the world are like people fighting on a large boat. In the middle of their battle over who should catch the biggest fish, they look up and realize that the fine boat is sinking, and everyone is going down. Their next fight will be for basic survival, and they will need to rely on one another, floating far from shore in the vast sea.
~ Julie A. Barnes
God, please," I scream, "help, Mom, he is going to kill me!" And she is standing just where she was three minutes ago. Three minutes ago my life was different. Three minutes ago I could have made it out of here intact, but now Ã¢â'¬Â¦
~ Julie Gregory
La razón sólo nos sirve para disecar la realidad en calma, o analizar sus futuras tormentas, nunca para resolver una crisis momentánea
~ Julio Cortazar
No es por Horacio, amor, no es solamente por Horacio aunque él haya llegado como una especie de mensajero. A lo mejor si no hubiese llegado me habría ocurrido otra cosa parecida. Habría leído algún libro desencadenador, o me habría enamorado de otra mujer… esos pliegues de la vida, comprendrés, esas inesperadas mostraciones de algo que uno no se había sospechado y que de golpe ponen todo en crisis. Tendrías que comprender.
~ Julio Cortazar
Reason is only good to mummify reality in moments of calm or analyze its future storms, never to resolve a crisis of the moment
~ Julio Cortazar
Dejemos al hombre moderno con sus "verdades" y preocupémonos solamente de una cosa: de mantenernos de pie en medio de un mundo en ruinas
~ Julius Evola
What would they do if I said I hurt so much I feel like I want to die? —Jeremy Richards
~ Julius Lester
Inflation had risen to the unimaginable figure of just over 100,000 percent by the end of 1947--and it was to go to 2,870,000 percent by the end of 1948...
~ Jung Chang
It was in that hour of tribulation, however, that a hand reached out for her and she remembered who she was.
~ Junot Diaz
She'd never been big on church before, but as soon as we landed on cancer planet she went so over-the-top Jesucristo that I think she would have nailed herself to a cross if she'd had one handy.
~ Junot Diaz
There would be no energy crisis if man knew how to effectively utilize the power inside of women!
~ Justice Calo Reign
What were the living dead, Wolgast thought, but a metaphor for the misbegotten march of middle age?
~ Justin Cronin
God damn it, Peg! Now we've got us another vortex into a lost dimension, smack in the middle of town this time!" said the mayor in exasperation. "What are we going to do?" "Beats
~ Kage Baker