Quotes About Crisis

Why is it that we reward programmers who work all night to remove the errors they put into their programs, or managers who make drastic organizational changes to resolve the crises their poor management has created? Why not reward the programmers who design so well that they don't have dramatic errors, and managers whose organizations stay out of crisis mode? Organizing

A coalition of groups ... is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. ... an all-out attack. Their aim is total victory for themselves and total defeat for him. (On Watergate crisis)

If you are drowning in a sewer, your first concern might be that you are drowning, not how vile you smell.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

Of all calamities this is the greatest.

This is what I found out about religion: It gives you courage to make decisions you must make in a crisis, and then the confidence to leave the result to a Higher Power. Only by trust in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose.

The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself.

Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis, the former know how to act, the latter become uncouth brutes.

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains, they drown in every drop.

There is no crisis to which academics will not respond with a seminar.

If your house is on fire, warm yourself by it.

When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.

I think that there are these moments of a crisis that give us the courage and encouragement to try something that actually may be better than how we were doing it before.

Hey 2020 — What the heck are murder hornets? And how much toilet paper do I need to buy?

A terrible crisis unquestionably has arisen in the Church. In the ministry of evangelical churches are to be found hosts of those who reject the gospel of Christ. By the equivocal use of traditional phrases, by the representation of differences of opinion as though they were only differences about the interpretation of the Bible, entrance into the Church was secured for those who are hostile to the very foundations of the faith.

You're still carrying Africa, but it's eroding at the edges. Great. We're destroying the Dark Continent.

Eve yanked out her communicator. "Peabody, get an E and B team to the Empire State Building, another to the Twin Towers, one more to the Statue of Liberty. You and McNab cover the Empire State, get Feeney down to the Towers.

Kaimo gyventojai nuolat rezga planus, kaip pakenkti kaimynams - linki jiems parazit?, nederliaus, finansin?s katastrofos, - ta?iau ištikus krizei visi pasireng? pad?ti.

Se puede quedar tranquilo, señor, no vamos a hacer restas. La sustracción, la adición, la aritmética en general tienen poca importancia para alguien que afronta una crisis tan profunda en su vida.

America's over. Get out while you still can.

McDonald's, he thought. Why couldn't she have wanted Mickey D's. Or Pizza Hut. Taco Hell—

This was trouble--of the bury-your-dead variety.