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Quotes About Crisis

Our world is facing a refugee crisis of a magnitude not seen since the Second World War. This presents us with great challenges and many hard decisions.
~ Pope Francis
General, you don't have a war plan! All you have is a kind of horrible spasm!
~ Robert McNamara
The next World War will be over water
~ Ismail Serageldin
You cannot talk about winning the war as long as there's killing and destruction on daily basis.
~ Bashar al-Assad
I think massive migration is inevitable. As sea levels rise, as climate change happens, as fertile fields become arid, as wars are fought, people are going to move. They always have.
~ Mohsin Hamid
There is really no crisis except an artificial one...If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the trouble will come to an end.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Humanity are not individuals; we are collective. And if we have difference, we have wars all the time. We have crisis. We need to open our mind. This is the only solution we have.
~ Alejandro Jodorowsky
This is impossible to predict. War may break out unexpectedly.
~ Joseph Stalin
The bloody solution of the crisis, the effort for the destruction of the enemy's forces, is the first-born son of war.
~ Carl von Clausewitz
The right hon. Gentleman will be known for ever as the only Chancellor in the post-war period who brought this country to the brink of bankruptcy.
~ Denis Healey
I finally figured out that not every crisis can be managed. As much as we want to keep ourselves safe, we can't protect ourselves from everything. If we want to embrace life, we also have to embrace chaos.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
The masculinity crisis would return with each backlash. The fledgling Boy Scouts of America claimed one-fifth of all American boys by 1920; its founder's explicit aim was to staunch the feminization of the American male by removing young men from the too powerful female orbit. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
~ Susan Faludi
Denial is the lid on our emotional pressure cooker: the longer we leave it on, the more pressure we build up. Sooner or later, that pressure is bound to pop the lid, and we have an emotional crisis.
~ Susan Forward
autumn of 1918, I had just started fifth grade when signs began popping up in windows and on doors, on broadsheets plastered on streetlamps around the neighborhood. Suddenly big public gatherings were being discouraged; taverns, moving-picture houses, soda fountains—even churches—grew empty. Nobody knew what it was exactly, except that it started quickly, with a cough and a fever.
~ Susan Jane Gilman
If you rock the boat in a fragile family, the concern is that everyone will drown. "Hmmm
~ Susan Juby
Only one word described this situation. It was "F'd." Right? But I can't say that word. People who use that word in all its four-letter glory are nothing but common beggars.
~ Susan May
At last count, in 2017, there were almost sixty thousand homeless people in Los Angeles.
~ Susan Orlean
I wanted to end my life so bad and was in my car ready to go down that ramp into the water, and I did go part way, but I stopped. I went again and stopped. I then got out of the car and stood by the car a nervous wreck.
~ Susan Smith
The AIDS crisis is evidence of a world in which nothing important is regional, local, limited; in which everything that can circulate does, and every problem is, or is destined to become, worldwide.
~ Susan Sontag
During the last few hours of the trip, he and Tess had drilled procedures and done a whole lot of worst-case-scenario type war-gaming. He was now as convinced as he'd ever be that she knew what to do and where to go if Godzilla attacked Kazabek...
~ Suzanne Brockmann
That if desperate times call for desperate measures, then I'm free to act as desperately as I wish.
~ Suzanne Collins
That if desperate times call for desperate measures, then I am free to act as desperately as I wish.
~ Suzanne Collins
There won't be enough of us left to keep going. If everybody doesn't lay down their weapons — and I mean, as in very soon — it's all over, anyway.
~ Suzanne Collins
Se supone que estás enamorada, preciosa, y el chico se está muriendo. ¡Dame algo con lo que pueda trabajar!».
~ Suzanne Collins