Quotes About Crisis

The damage caused by opioids is largely caused by their prohibition

it would be the Devil to pay and no pitch hot

Knock-knock on the door. 'Beg pardon, your honour. Loblolly boy's all in a mother, sir. Young Mr Ricketts has swallowed a musket-ball and they can't get it out. Choking to death, sir, if you please.

There has never been a riper time for extreme Islam to perish.

Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of champagne.

many people will only change due to desperation

While the crisis lasted, people loved each other," she wrote in her autobiography. "It was as though they were united in Christian solidarity.

Only the truly anguished and distressed seriously consider ending their lives.

But climate change isn't just killing people; it may well kill civilization.

It appears - because it has been the case for twenty years - that every problem is solvable...that no matter how badly the world economy slumps there is a pain-free way out of it. Once the realization dawns that there is not, and that the pain will be severe, the question is posed that has not really been posed for twenty years: who should feel it?

Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire.

another wildly gesturing to her comatose baby and pleading for help

they had been summoned to Mexico for a family emergency and had been unable to return.

Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.

Diplomacy - the art of jumping into trouble without making a splash.

I think it is important to reach people through arts and literature, because then you establish a connection that's not an instant crisis.

Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.

Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness.'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis.

Control thought-forms are the basis of our deepest moral crisis.

This is one of the gravest crises Europe has ever experienced... An agreement failed because of the completely stubborn attitudes of the UK and the Netherlands.

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One of the things is that in times of severe disorder, you can't worry about the dead, only the living.

That, of course, was when everything went wrong and the whole world crashed down around my ears.

Is it true that Panrovians have a lot of children . . . because they figure there's another famine coming? -Cerebus