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Quotes About Crisis

Great emergencies and crisis show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
~ William James
LONDON, March 16 Ed telephoned from Vienna. He said Major Emil Fey has committed suicide after putting bullets through his wife and nineteen-year-old son. He was a sinister man. Undoubtedly he feared the Nazis would murder him for having double-crossed them in 1934 when Dollfuss was shot. I return to Vienna day after tomorrow. The crisis is over. I think we've found something, though, for radio with these round-ups.
~ William L. Shirer
Benito Mussolini, tired and senile though he was only going on sixty, he who had strutted so arrogantly across Europe's stage for two decades, was at the end of his rope. When he returned to Rome he found much worse than the aftermath of the first heavy bombing.
~ William L. Shirer
moment of declaration of war, if there
~ William L. Shirer
This paralyzing blow to Germany's economy united the people momentarily as they had not been united since 1914.
~ William L. Shirer
Where was that crisis energy in the real becoming what it was not, if what it was not was right there alongside what it was?
~ China Mieville
Böyle korkunç olaylar bazen insanlar?n da ba??na gelebilir. Üstesinden gelemedi?i çeli?kilerle ba? ba?a kalan insan, moral bak?m?ndan derinden derine sars?l?r ama bunu kimseye söyleyemez, çünkü kimse ona yard?m edemez. Bu korkunç bir yer kaymas? gibidir, tehlikeyi görürsünüz, ama bir ?ey yapamazs?n?z.
~ Chingiz Aitmatov
The U.S. national debt is $27 trillion.
~ Chip Heath
I guess that's when people call their mothers - when their world is falling apart.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Is there any wonder why we are in such big trouble? Any question why the people don't trust their government anymore, and demand a change?
~ Chris Christie
If anybody ran a business like that they would be out of business quickly, and Barack Obama's leadership is driving this business, the United States of America, toward a fiscal cliff.
~ Chris Christie
Psychiatry in this place is like serving an in-flight meal in the middle of a plane crash. If I wanted to make you well, as a doctor, I should be giving you a parachute, not a cheese-and-pickle sandwich.
~ Chris Cleave
So when I say that I am a refugee, you must understand that there is no refuge.
~ Chris Cleave
sometimes the only way we can discover our true power is by living through the crisis we feared. As
~ Chris Gardner
When people who believe themselves to be addicts or alcoholics come under great stress or trauma, they mentally give themselves permission to drink or use drugs as a remedy.
~ Chris Prentiss
Es gibt Krisen, die dadurch entstehen, daß sich eine neue Kraft bildet, die zum Sturm auf das Bestehende ansetzt. Und es gibt auch Krisen, die entstehen dadurch oder bestehen darin, daß man sie dafür hält.
~ Christian Meier
circunstancias desesperadas exigen medidas desesperadas.
~ Christine Dodd
The film is about Joe discovering who his mother and father are and his relationship with them, and the identity crisis he goes through once he finds out who his parents are.
~ Christopher Eccleston
Only tragedies arrived with such urgency in the small hours before dawn.
~ Christopher Golden
Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case.
~ Helen Clark
its own survival into the future depended on its ability to harness economic change in order, in the immediate term, to resolve the crisis of near state bankruptcy caused by its own economic policies (autarky),
~ Helen Graham
Catalyzed by an international economic crisis that crystallized with the oil crisis of 1973, in essence it was a crisis of the dictatorship's domestic political legitimacy.
~ Helen Graham
With the triumph of the Popular Party on 20 November 2011 in a general election dominated by the debt crisis and nearly five million unemployed, desmemoria is likely now to be in the ascendant.
~ Helen Graham
The Bolsheviks are coming, like Atilla, like clouds of locusts. They are destroying everything in their path. (Vera Muromtseva)
~ Helen Rappaport