Quotes About Crisis

For people, generally, their story of the universe and the human role in the universe is their primary source of intelligibility and value. ... The deepest crises experienced by any society are those moments of change when the story becomes inadequate for meeting the survival demands of a present situation.

But some women only require an emergency to make them fit for one.

And yet to every bad, there is a worse.

some women only require an emergency to make them fit for one.

If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

The devil makes many disciples by preaching against sin. He convinces them that the great evil of sin, induces a crisis of guilt by which "God is satisfied, and after that he lets them spend the rest of their lives meditating on the intense sinfulness and evident reprobation of other men.

What would have been the good of my being plunged into a lot of naked suffering and emotional crisis without any prayer, any Sacrament to stabilize and order it, and make some kind of meaning out of it?

suffering the inner struggle and the crisis through which one generally comes to a deeper spiritual awakening.

And when Franz Ferdinand pays, everybody pays!

There was just enough light from the fire to see the despair in Fleetwood's face, despair like a corrupt form of hope, that here at last might be his great crisis—the unappeasable tribesmen, the unforeseen tempest, the solid terrain gone to quicksand, the beast stalking him for miles and years. Otherwise what life could he expect as one more murderer with his money in Rand shares, destined for golf courses, restaurants with horrible food and worse music, the aging faces of his kind?

When the anointed say that there is a crisis this means that something must be done—and it must be done simply because the anointed want it done.

The swirl of their buzzwords—"access," "stigma," "progressive," "diversity," "crisis," etc.—shows a discernible pattern. What these innumerable buzzwords have in common is that they either (1) preempt issues rather than debate them, (2) set the anointed and the benighted on different moral and intellectual planes, or (3) evade the issue of personal responsibility

Far from being a national crisis of affordable housing, outrageous rents and astronomical home prices are largely confined to a relatively few places along the east and west coasts. Rent per square foot of apartment space in San Francisco is more than double what it is in Denver, Dallas, or Kansas City, and nearly three times as high as in Memphis. Home prices show even greater disparities.

And suddenly she raised her muff as though her hands were clasped inside it, and she was telling the pale, sweaty garçon by that action that she was at the end of her resources, that she cried out to him to save her with "Tea. Immediately!" * * * * This seemed to me so amazingly in the picture, so exactly the gesture and cry that one would expect (though I couldn't have imagined it) to be wrung out of an Englishwoman faced with a great crisis

The roots of the present crisis in the American political party system lie at the juncture of money and religion

Pray for our CEF worker who has been accused of inappropriate behavior with the children," she finally says in an agitated voice. "If these accusations are allowed to continue, Lord, it could devastate the man, and his family, and the ministry.

There must be many of us whose lives have been divided into a before and after, with an accident, a death, a crime, a crisis, some moment or year or relationship that came between and changed everything. I want to see how your life moved forward from that point of division.

went to the college to speak with your wife…she's in dangerous water, Mike. We have to help her. Is it more than Jamie's situation? Caroline's?

There are no atheists in foxholes. Whoever had said that was right.

Ain't climate change grand?

When a great house is about to crumble, a stick cannot keep it from falling.

Here comes 40. I'm feeling my age and I've ordered the Ferrari. I'm going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.

When the job blows up in your face, remember Rum Jungle. We'll need every man - and then it won't be enough. = Retief in Retief

Uvijek se može birati...pitanje je zapravo imate li hrabrosti da izaberete i da se toga držite?..Iskoristite ovu krizu i snagu koju vam je ?ini se donijela...otputujte na neko vrijeme...Vi ne poznajete moju majku..preživjela je uzdignute glave najgore dogadjaje, prezire slabost... U Selminim venama te?e krv 38 sultana. 6 stolje?a apsolutne vlasti - ali i 6 stolje?a kurtizana. Ona je podjednako plod i jednih i drugih, istovremeno i kraljica i robinja.