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Quotes About Crisis

Did you know there's now a coin shortage? Yes, America is literally out of common cents.
~ Internet meme, July 2020
I am having an out-of-money experience.
~ Author Unknown
Scorpios are perhaps at their best when actively engaged in helping others face some momentous crisis. At such times they seem to understand everything, even though they may never have faced such a situation before.
~ Richard B. Vaughan
I have carried this abscess too far, Tunisia is going through a difficult period. Freedom is dangerous.
~ Habib Bourguiba
Mormon out of whole cloth. He pronounced Mormonism a "myth fraternity," and slipped into a profound spiritual crisis that lasted until his death, of a heart attack, in 1983. "You can't set Book of Mormon geography down anywhere," he wrote in 1976, "because it is fictional and will never meet the requirements of the dirt-archaeology. What is in the ground will
~ Hampton Sides
Only in the worst moment will you know: Friend or Foe!
~ Hanna Jansen
I don't think that anyone seriously fears that the world can be blown to pieces all together. But what one can fear and rightly so are regional things, like in the Middle East, India, Pakistan, the Korean Peninsula, borders in Africa, etc.
~ Hans Blix
Coffins and coffins, enough for everyone on the shift, enough for everyone in Germany! The men are still alive, but they are already making their own coffins.
~ Hans Fallada
My experience in previous theaters of war had taught me that the more critical a situation, or the more alarming the reports, the more calmly every experienced leader should react.
~ Hans von Luck
Salg?n Bizans'? 4 ay etkiledi. Günde 5-10 bin ölü vard?: "Sonunda mezar kaz?c? bulunamay?nca, kalelerdeki kulelerin çat?lar? ç?kar?ld?, cesetler koyulup çat? tekrar kapat?ld?." Cenazeler gemilere koyulup denize terk ediliyordu. "Salg?n bittikten sonra ahlâks?zl?k ve sapk?nl?k o kadar artt? ki, salg?n geriye sadece günahkârlar? b?rakt? sanard?n?z.
~ Hans Zinsser
I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
~ Harlan Coben
America is on the point of bursting into flames
~ Harlow Giles Unger
i was going to die by my own hand and god jumped on me he said pull the trigger if you want i won't be angry its ok to kill yourself a young kid should not kill oneself but god said go ahead make my day what could i do then
~ Harmony Korine
THE APPROACH OF Thanksgiving on November 29 sent Springfield into a panic—not over the nation-imperiling crisis plaguing its leading citizen, but the apparently more dismaying prospect of a local turkey shortage.
~ Harold Holzer
It came as no surprise that another visitor to Springfield found Lincoln on November 14 "reading up anew" on the history of Andrew Jackson's response to the 1832 Nullification Crisis. While he made no effort to conceal "the uneasiness which the contemplated treason gives him," Lincoln assured his guest that, like Jackson, he would not "yield an inch.
~ Harold Holzer
I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.
~ Harold MacMillan
That insight, that God is to be found not in the crisis but in our response to the crisis, is the key to understanding one of the most important passages in the entire Bible.
~ Harold S. Kushner
You know what's funny? I don't ever feel the need to escape. I have a strong marriage. I like my life. You hear about these guys having midlife crises - I don't see that happening to me.
~ Harry Connick Jr.
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
~ Harry S Truman
Nearly every crisis seems to be the worst one, but after it's over, it isn't so bad.
~ Harry Truman
Give me an incubator or give me death!
~ Hawkeye and Trapper, M*A*S*H
But just as natural disaster brought out the best in some people, it brought out the worst in others.
~ Heather Graham
A simple inquiry—"What are we going to do about dinner?"—incites an existential crisis, the 742nd of its kind since your wedding day.
~ Heather Havrilesky
I think everyone has one day like this, and some people have more than one. It's the day of the accident, the midlife crisis, the breakdown, the meltdown, the walkout, the sellout, the giving up, giving away, or giving in. The day you stop drinking, or the day you start. The day you know things will never be the same again
~ Heather Sellers