Quotes About Crisis

There's nothing like a good crisis to increase my energy and remind me how much I need God.

We never learn to pray, really pray- until we are in a situatioin where there is nothing left to do but pray.

I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.

These displaced persons are mostly unwanted where they fled from; unwanted where they are, in refugee camps; and unwanted where they want to go.

What was it like to live in a time when one's fate was not war, when one was not led by the craven and the corrupt, when one's country was not a basket case kept alive only through the intravenous drip of American aid?

A person's real attitude can be seen when he is in danger.

Only a fool gives lectures on drowning during a drought.

Against all expectations, the symptoms of Van Gogh's mental illness are conspicuous by their almost complete absence from his letters. Much as he chose not to paint before he had fully recovered from one of his attacks, so he refrained from writing at times of crisis. Throughout his life, admittedly, his letters bear witness to a man possessed, frequently agitated, enraged, dejected, obsessed, but never deranged, or emotionally or intellectually unstable.

pois me restam graves remorsos, difíceis de definir. Acho que esta foi a causa de eu ter gritado tanto nas crises, eu queria me defender e não conseguia mais

Because in a time of financial crisis like the present, money is what ammunition is to a soldier in a hostile country - don't let's waste our powder.

Just enough for a twelve-pack of beer, a pack of smokes, and a Bic lighter. Not exactly the breakfast of champions, but the perfect recipe for a man who is speedily losing his shit.

Some say the world may end with fire but some say world may end with ice.

Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn't realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left.

Capitalists can buy themselves out of any crisis, so long as they make the workers pay

The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.

Every society is three meals away from chaos

Americans try to talk about positive family values, although the actual state of things is disastrous.

Loss of market, and resulting unemployment, are not foreordained. They are not inevitable. They are man-made.

I know now that revelation is from the self, but from that age-long memoried self, that shapes the elaborate shell of the mollusc and the child in the womb, that teaches the birds to make their nest; and that genius is a crisis that joins that buried self for certain moments to our trivial daily mind.

The key problem is the debt restructuring in the euro zone. As long as the debt burden is not reduced, there is no chance of the weaker EU countries regaining competitiveness.

I think in the years to come what Reagan will be remembered for is that he had the chance to stop the plague and he chose not to because the 'right people' were dying.

There are no sides in suicide.

In crisis management, be quick with the facts, slow with the blame.