Quotes About Crisis

France may have turned her back. But did that mean that Eva could do the same when lives hung in the balance?

By the time a critical situation is reached, people are so embedded in the kinds of thinking, values, and behavior that led to the critical point that nothing less than a heroic effort on the part of the population as a whole can sway the course of events.

Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.

Man is an endangered species.

Man," said Terl, "is an endangered species.

Oh hell. They've got Mrs B in a bag!

From that blighted time came the saying: when bellies speak, reason is lost.

I see that even as the world plunges into darkness and peril, you two stand around discussing your love lives. Teenagers.

I am so screwed.

Chronic malnutrition, or the lack of proper nutrition over time directly contributes to three times as many child deaths as food scarcity. Yet surprisingly, you don't really hear about this hidden crisis through the morning news, Twitter or headlines of major newspapers.

A shortage of coffins was one thing, but then London began running out of graves.

Let's say you were starving. You were going to die any day of starvation. Would you go into a supermarket and steal a can of tuna?" "I'm a vegan." "Nobody's a vegan when they're starving.

Oh, for Time's sake, this is too pathetic. You'd end the universe, because you've had a bad century?

If you want to kill yourself, do not use us as your knife.

The war is always going badly.

Lives have apocalypses, too. You just can't know when you're in it until the water is already closing over your head and all you can hear are volcanoes, one after the other, detonating the possibility of the future you imagined.

But I felt constrained using the voice of an adolescent girl who didn't know enough because I didn't know enough. I was too young then. It was a crisis that swirled around me, rather than cut through me, and yet the riots have weighed on my conscience as a crucible of race relations that this nation failed.

What kind of a life could one have, after all, if a family allowed itself to be torn apart-by war, by necessitous circumstances, or a wedge driven into the heart by a crises of trust?

We expected that the international community would put a stop to it. I believed that. I was worried about getting through a few days, that's all, while the world—how do you say?—got its act together.

That's how it's done, you see. It's the same way people get horses out of burning buildings. When the whole world's on fire around you, you use a blindfold. Everyone needs someone like Titus for a blindfold.

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.

Together we proceeded on our way towards catastrophe. [Depressed lawyer and his unsuspecting clients.]

Watson in the nineties has been like English cricket in the nineties: an accident waiting to happen.

Giovanni Boccaccio wrote in his Decameron that people, afraid of contamination by the rotting corpses, would drag the dead outside their houses and leave them in front of their doors to be picked up, like so much garbage.