Quotes About Crisis

Kindergarten, as first conceived by Friedrich Froebel in the nineteenth century, was a place where children would play, as if in a garden. However, the push to teach to the test has squeezed self-directed play out of kindergartens almost entirely, as described by the Alliance for Childhood in their report Crisis in the

You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.

Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that crisis lands like a thud on the Oval Office desk?

When President Obama entered the White House, the economy was in a free-fall. The auto industry: on its back. The banks: frozen up. More than three million Americans had already lost their jobs. And America's bravest, our men and women in uniform, were fighting what would soon be the longest wars in our history.

there will be but one feeling throughout the army, a feeling that our prestige is gone, and that feeling will be more dangerous than any other.

Many people in the world today are not starving because there is an inherent inability to produce food, they are starving because they are caught in the middle of political fights and blockades that have been used as weapons.

The World Health Organization has named antibiotic resistance as one of the three major health problems of the new century.

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

From his home in New Delhi, Atal Behari Vajpayee spoke by satellite to tribals in Kashipur, whose kinsmen had died after eating mango kernel because their crops had failed. 'It is extremely unfortunate that in today's world people die by eating poisonous material', said the head of a government that could speak to its citizens by videophone, yet not supply them with wholesome food.

When a London gay switchboard's lines broke down because they were so overwhelmed with AIDS calls, telephone company employees refused to fix them because they were afraid of contracting AIDS through the wiring.

How can you tell it's the end of an era? When a suddenly intolerable present crystallizes in a short period of time what was so uneasily put up with in the past. And everyone is suddenly quite easily convinced that he or she is either going to be reborn in the birth of a new world, or die in the archaic netherworld of a society less and less adapted to the living.

**(C)(P) PHARMAGENOCIDE- THE CATALYZING EFFECT IN WHICH PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES MAKES IT IMPOSSIBLE OR DIFFICULT FOR THE ORDINARY PERSON TO BUY THEIR MEDICATIONS BECAUSE OF THE HIGH PRICE OF MEDICINES, SUCH THAT MANY END UP DYING.

Republicans are one health crisis away from being Democrats?

Without a sense of history, all we have to guide us is the daily news...the god of speed....A steady diet of spectacle and crisis can undermine our trust that the universe makes sense and supports our well-being.

Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness. 'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis.

When there is a calamity, don't think about the party, think beyond the party.

I talk all the time about the eight-year-old me and all the eight-year-olds who are living in their camps.

Blight is like a cancer. This is one of those all-or-nothing things.

We are often told that capitalism is in crisis, but look around the world and you'll see that it has never been so buoyant.

The world is ending, make no mistake. It's coming to an end. This can't go on for much longer. Capitalism has to fall.

Obama had to save the banks, sure, but he didn't have to save the bankers and the shareholders and the bondholders. We broke the rules of capitalism in order to save those at the top - as we always do.

As a player, when things are going against you, you look to the captain to inject some energy but I don't see any of that from Amla.

In the case of the environment, there's no one to bail it out.

When something catastrophic happens to someone you love, or a situation arises that affects people you love the most, if that's the first time you've been in that position, you never really know what to do.