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Quotes About Crisis

In Greece, refugees are being waved through to the heart of Europe. That is simply unacceptable in the long run. The European Union cannot act like a human trafficker.
~ Sebastian Kurz
It's true across the U.K. that those who had least to do with causing the economic crisis are carrying the heaviest burden. That's unacceptable.
~ Johann Lamont
That migrant families might be menaced or threatened in any way, shape or form when they arrive at our border - often times after an unimaginably arduous journey - is completely unacceptable.
~ Michelle Lujan Grisham
Preventing liquidation of an unbalanced market will leave you in tears.
~ Ben Bernanke
I was going through a crisis once, so I went to therapy because I was so unbearable for myself.
~ Irrfan Khan
When you have an asteroid threatening Earth, it's uncertain where it's going to hit until the last minute; the decision to take action has to be coordinated by the international community.
~ Rusty Schweickart
Whenever I get on stage, I feel safe and in control. Life can be so uncertain, but on stage, I always know how a drama or crisis is going to end. Acting is a great comfort blanket and has gotten me through countless personal crises. I am a firm believer that the show must go on.
~ Kate O'Mara
Bailouts may have been more tolerable in the early 1990s when they were rare and their use for a failing bank was uncertain. That is no longer the case.
~ Jerome Powell
Sometimes momentous government action leaves everyone uncertain about the next move.
~ Neal Katyal
If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Whenever you have war, you often have more deaths because the medical system and the food system breaks down, than you have directly through violence.
~ Bill Gates
If the Southeast represents the new battlefield in the war on meth, then Tennessee clearly is at ground zero.
~ Phil Bredesen
Once supply begins to dwindle, the years to follow will see shortages that at best will cause global recession, possibly worse than the 1930s Great Depression, ... war, famine, pestilence and death.
~ Kenneth S. Deffeyes
If we think of what's up ahead, with climate change and wars over water, it's very frightening.
~ Carol Ann Duffy
I believe the United States should make the protection of Syrian civilians from war crimes and crimes against humanity a higher priority.
~ Bob Casey, Jr.
Surrender is a perfectly acceptable alternative in extreme circumstances.
~ Leigh Brackett
There are no atheists in the foxholes.
~ William Thomas Cummings
We have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is war.
~ Bernard Kouchner
There was no blueprint or how-to manual for fixing a global financial meltdown, an auto crisis, two wars and a great recession, all at the same time.
~ Rahm Emanuel
In hard times of severe crisis if you want to create new jobs, I recommend you to start killing some people. It's the old "topos" of war in time of peace.
~ William C. Brown
Bill Russell, a famous philosopher from Boston Celtics once "When things go bad, things go bad." The [Iraq] war was terribly mismanaged-it was terribly mismanaged.
~ Jon Stewart
The current oil crisis has not been produced by the oil companies. It is a result of governmental mismanagement exacerbated by the Mideast war.
~ Milton Friedman
War seems to come out of nowhere, like rust that suddenly pops up on iron after a storm.
~ Victor Davis Hanson
Follow the plan until it goes to shit, and then kill everything that isn't human.
~ Henry V. O'Neil, Live Echoes