Quotes About Crisis

Important lecture!' cried Pnin. 'What to do? It is a catastroph!

executives are often reluctant to accept the need for change; they may have a vested interest in the status quo, or they may feel that time will eventually vindicate their previous choices. Indeed, when we ask executives what prompts them to seek out blue oceans and introduce change, they usually say that it takes a highly determined leader or a serious crisis.

Desperate and without other options as she'd openly admitted. As desperate as I am to have a roof

After what's happening right now around the world, my guess is history will soon be explained simply in terms of Before and After.

I can understand why people jump off bridges.

We scurry around like Santa's elves, the fire out of control, neighbors in their pajamas and housecoats and overcoats screaming for us to do something. And, well, ladies and gentlemen, looks like we're doing about all we can do.

The crowned heads that leaned over his cradle were members of his family. Charlemagne was a direct ancestor; among his uncles and cousins were Kaiser Wilhelm II, Alfonso XIII of Spain, Ferdinand I of Rumania, Gustav VI of Sweden, Constantine I of Greece, Haakon VII of Norway and Alexander I of Yugoslavia. Europe's crises were family problems.

While investing in equities always entails risk, the longer the investment horizon, the more likely it is that equity investors will be rewarded for taking incremental risk—assuming they have the ability to remain disciplined during periods of economic crisis. Disciplined investors think bear markets are really just periods when the market temporarily wears a big "for sale" sign. On

MICKEY: No, don't take me home. I'm afraid I might do something. Take me to St. Vincent's. I'm just afraid.

During the first nineteen months of the epidemic, the New York Times wrote about it a total of seven times:

I'm frightened nobody important is going to give a damn because it seems to be happening mostly to gay men.

All men love a damsel in a mess.

Their hunger dimmed, an ominous sign. They had reached the last stage of starvation.

In the crisis moments, I was desperate to narrate. As I moved somewhere else spiritually, out of crisis and into a new odd calm, I was more peaceably floating through whatever was happening. I wanted to record moments, but not so intently to tell stories.

It's very easy to think you know someone... when life is calm and orderly. But people become their truest selves in emergencies.

As the two struggled, Quesada's guard took Hernández hostage, and suddenly the ship was without officers

mass execution appeared to be in the making, but the expedition could not continue without

nightmare as razor-sharp rocks sawed into her hull, and she began taking on water.

sparing their lives, they grasped the desperate situation they now faced.

Humanity is under siege.

The world is undergoing a kind of nervous breakdown. The reason the world is coming apart is that it needs an openhearted and truthful concept of Divinity.

The author is sounding the alarm that humanity is under invasion.

In any economic or political crisis, one thing is certain. Many learned experts will prescribe many different remedies

what might have caused those would never be clear. In time, many would dredge up old lists of rivalries, searching for someone to blame; they would settle, in a few years, on China, that perilous, perpetual yellow menace. Seeing its sabotage behind every stumble and fracture of the Crisis. But at first all they agreed on was this: it was the worst crisis since the 1980s, then since the Depression, and then they stopped making comparisons.