Quotes About Crisis

Crap," I said. I'm quite eloquent in times of crisis

What's gone wrong, Harry?" "Hey!" I protested. "That's a hell of a thing to say to a man, Captain. Just because I'm calling in doesn't mean that there's some kind of crisis." "Technically true, I suppose. Why are you calling?" "Well. There's a crisis.

Things fall apart.

There's only one thing to do in crisis like this - SLEEP ON IT! Garfield, the cat.

the U.S., also has the highest rates of suicide, drug abuse, murder, incarcerations, and other negative social factors. Our economy is based on fighting wars—killing people and ravaging the planet—trading paper (mergers, derivatives, etc.), and selling each other things most of us don't need. Meanwhile our planet is drowning in pollution, people are starving, our resources are dissipating, and our animals and plants are disappearing at shocking rates.

When life attains a crisis, man's focus narrows.

Everything's going along as usual and then all shit breaks loose.

Mourning, the act of dealing with grief, required attention. Until now there had been every urgent reason to obliterate any attention that might otherwise have been paid, banish the thought, bring fresh adrenaline to bear on the crisis of the day.

Emergency, I continue to believe, is what happens to someone else. I say that I continue to believe this even as I know that I do not.

Everything's going along as usual and then all shit breaks loose," one said. The injured man made no response, nor could he, since he had a trach.

The city burning is Los Angeles's deepest image of itself.

When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble. And I suspect we are already there.

Everyone was in scrubs. I noticed one man who was not in scrubs. "Is this the wife," he said to the driver. Then he looked at me. "I'm your social worker." And I guess that was when I knew. That's something else to remember. If they give you a social worker, you're in trouble.

What looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.

All it takes is a second and your whole life can get turned upside down.

I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.

You can have the best intentions, but the moment there's a hairline crack, it is only a matter of time before you go to pieces.

When more and more people are thrown out of work unemployment results.

I hope my work contributes to understanding long-term patterns of human behavior and how we survive, thrive, or fail during times of environmental, social, and economic crisis.

I'm in such a self-deprecating mood right now, it's not even funny. Can I just step into oncoming traffic?

The science is in. The facts are there that we have created, man has, a self-inflicted wound that man has created through global warming.

In a crisis, don't hide behind anything or anybody. They are going to find you anyway.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Advice is least heeded when most needed.