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Quotes About Crisis

Visions of the entire Krusty Krab burning to the ground flashed through SpongeBob's fevered brain. If SpongeBob
~ Terry Collins
One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly illiberal legislation, but a more general problem of how the liberal state deals with its anti-liberal enemies.
~ Terry Eagleton
On January 21, 2019, media darling and socialist, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, said, "The world is gonna end in twelve years if we don't address climate change." To understand this, it's necessary to remember that the UN has a goal to establish a world government by 2030. In essence,
~ Terry James
And that was it. That's how disaster comes, without any fanfare
~ Tessa Hadley
What we had set out to do was nothing less than to explain why humanity, instead of entering a truly human state, is sinking into a new kind of barbarism.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
The people in charge, globally, are maniacs. They are maniacs, and unless we do something about it these people are going to deprive us of a future.
~ Thom Yorke
The respectable London druggists, in widely remote quarters of London, from whom I happened lately to be purchasing small quantities of opium, assured me, that the number of amateur opium-eaters (as I may term them) was, at this time, immense; and that the difficulty of distinguishing these persons, to whom habit had rendered opium necessary, from such as were purchasing it with a view to suicide, occasioned them daily trouble and disputes.
~ Thomas de Quincey
The government shutdown, we all know that's a sham. I mean, are they really going to just go to the entire Army and Navy and say, 'You're fired.'
~ Mike Leach
No organization should be allowed near disaster unless they are willing to cooperate with some level of established leadership.
~ Irwin Redlener
The war begins to make itself felt very near to us.
~ James L. Petigru
Disasters affect every state, and North Carolinians have given our own tax dollars to help neighbors and those in other states in times of crisis.
~ Roy Cooper
State and local governments in New Jersey are a critical line of defense in the effort to respond to COVID-19.
~ Mikie Sherrill
Misery sells newspapers.
~ Phil Gramm
Boko Haram, by itself, has destroyed large areas in Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, and Niger.
~ Pete Hoekstra
Crisis is not a nine-to-five job... Crisis happens when you least expect it.
~ Judy Smith
There's no country in the world that's more devastated from natural resources than Afghanistan.
~ Jim Fowler
Managing and navigating through a financial crisis is no fun at all.
~ Howard Schultz
There are women crossing the border, finding border control agents to turn themselves in so they can begin the process of asylum, only to have their children taken from them with no idea of where they're going or when they'll see them again.
~ Stephanie Ruhle
No water equals no life. We can have no oil; it's fine. No water - there is no plan b with no water.
~ Edward Burtynsky
When I was 11 I became very depressed. It had a lot to do with the climate and ecological crisis. I thought everything was just so wrong and nothing was happening and there's no point in anything.
~ Greta Thunburg
I used to believe, although I don't now, that growing and growing up are analogous, that both are inevitable and uncontrollable processes. Now it seems to me that growing up is governed by the will, that one can choose to become an adult, but only at given moments. These moments come along fairly infrequently -during crises in relationships, for example, or when one has been given the chance to start afresh somewhere- and one can ignore them or seize them.
~ Nick Hornby
Bad thing upon bad thing upon bad thing until you can't take anymore, and then it's off to the nearest multistory car park in the family hatchback with a length of rubber tubing. Surely that's fair enough? Surely the coroner's report should read, He took his own life after sober and careful contemplation of the fucking shambles it had become.
~ Nick Hornby
nunca se deve deixar prosseguir uma crise para escapar a uma guerra, mesmo porque dela não se foge mas apenas se adia para desvantagem própria.
~ Nicolau Maquiavel
After she left everything fell apart. No Jew was safe. There were rumors of unfathomable things, and because we couldn't fathom them we failed to believe them, until we had no choice and it was too late. p 8
~ Nicole Krauss