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Quotes About Crisis

You don't cause problems. You cause catastrophes.
~ Ilona Andrews
If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?
~ Imran Khan
Regular railway services have been further suspended to further harass and increase the problem of ordinary population. Corona is a drama.
~ Unknown
[I] asked people to quantify themselves on a scale of one to 100 percent gay, and I watched so many existential crises unfold in front of me. People didn't know what to do, because they had never been presented with the option before.
~ iO Tillett Wright
Times are horrible. Nobody has any money and there is an immoral spirit in the air — just as you're getting ready to hit on someone for some cash, they're already hitting on you!
~ Unknown
Isn't it sad that you can tell people that the ozone layer is being depleted, the forests are being cut down, the deserts are advancing steadily, that the greenhouse effect will raise the sea level 200 feet, that overpopulation is choking us, that pollution is killing us, that nuclear war may destroy us -- and they yawn and settle back for a comfortable nap. But tell them that the Martians are landing, and they scream and run.
~ Isaac Asimov
Since the house is on fire, let us warm ourselves.
~ Italian proverb
and I think of the end of the world which is approaching, or rather, which has been in progress for a long while.
~ Italo Calvino
The only contact we could have with the void was through this little the void had produced as quintessence of its own emptiness; the only image we had of the void was our own poor universe. All the void we would ever know was there, in the relativity of what is, for even the void had been no more than a relative void,a void secretly shot with veins and temptations to be something, given that in a moment of crisis at its own nothingness it had been able to give rise to the universe.
~ Italo Calvino
Naturalmente io non sono un ingenuo e scuso il dottore di vedere nella vita stessa una manifestazione di malattia. La vita somiglia un poco alla malattia come procede per crisi e lisi ed ha i giornalieri miglioramenti e peggioramenti. A differenza delle altre malattie la vita è sempre mortale. Non sopporta cure. Sarebbe come voler turare i buchi che abbiamo nel corpo credendoli delle ferite. Morremmo strangolati non appena curati.
~ Italo Svevo
Naturally, people — especially in America — live in the moment and, given the "crisis" orientation of cable news, think that [the 2000s are] the worst period the country has ever gone through. Not really.
~ Unknown
Lenin's distinction is decisive. A propagandist, he says, to explain unemployment must talk about the capitalist nature of the crisis, the need for building a socialist society, etc.
~ J. Edgar Hoover
Look at the most religious areas of the world at present -- the Middle East and the United States. These are sick societies, and they're going to get sicker. People are never more dangerous than when they have nothing left to believe in except God.
~ J. G. Ballard
It is perfectly obvious that the whole world is going to hell. The only possible chance that it might not is that we do not attempt to prevent it from doing so.
~ J. Robert Oppenheimer
they always did in times of crisis—replaying the same tired video clips, indulging in pointless speculation, and interviewing the usual groups of "experts," none of whom could shed any useful light on events.
~ Unknown
As the late climate scientist Jerry Mahlman used to say, "There is no need to exaggerate the problem of climate change; it is bad enough as it is.
~ Dale Jamieson
The news is a never-ending horror movie and nobody knows how it's going to end
~ Damian Barr
Je crois que je vais me suicider sur facebook
~ Unknown
we should have been on top of that. we should have closed it down quick and clean, before anyone knew. in and out. that mess is going to be in the western mail tomorrow, gwen. mystory riot . deaths. we can't paper over it. fast bug out. no time to wipe memories or fake deaths. just a big old mess.
~ Dan Abnett
We're earlobe deep in doo-doo
~ Dan Abnett
Tak wygl?da?o wi?c epitafium dla mojego roku ?ycia na kraw?dzi: wszed?em do banku z broni? i bank mnie okrad?.
~ Unknown
Global warming is by its very nature a threat, but it is a deadly threat only because it fails to trigger the brain's alarm. It leaves us sleeping in a burning bed.
~ Dan Gilbert
America must be in really bad shape if you elected me president. You better get it together and find some other qualified people to run this country or we'll all be in big trouble.
~ Dan Gutman
I'll die without junk food.
~ Dan Gutman