Quotes About Crisis

People had hoped to be caught up in something bigger than themselves. They thought it would be a shared crisis. They would feel a sense of shared purpose, shared destiny. Like a snowstorm that blankets a large city – but lasting months, lasting years, carrying everyone along, creating fellow feeling where there was only suspicion and fear. The war would ennoble everything we say and do. What was impersonal would become personal. What was solitary would be shared.

In a crisis the true facts are whatever other people say they are.

In a crisis the true facts are whatever other people say they are. No one's knowledge is less secure than your own.

They're not calling it the feathery plume anymore," he said, not meeting my eyes, as if to spare himself the pain of my embarrassment. "I already knew that." "They're calling it the black billowing cloud." "Good." "Why is that good?" "It means they're looking the thing more or less squarely in the eye. They're on top of the situation.

Every day on the news there's another toxic spill. Cancerous solvents from storage tanks, arsenic from smokestacks, radioactive water from power plants. How serious can it be if it happens all the time? Isn't the definition of a serious event based on the fact that it's not an everyday occurrence?

In a crisis the true facts are whatever other people say they are. No one's knowledge is less secure than your own.

What people in an exodus fear most immediately is that those in positions of authority will long since have fled, leaving us

Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my presidency. I'm fucked.

This mess calls for leadership in the worst way.

About the time I told God that He didn't exist, I was desperate for an identity.

If you're going to have an existential crisis, Portland in winter is hard to beat.

Everything around us seems unscrewed, loosened, and out of joint. The fountains of the great deep appear to be breaking up. Ancient institutions are tottering and ready to fall. Social and religious systems are failing and crumbling away. Church and state both seem convulsed to their very foundations, and what the end of this convulsion may be no one can tell.

Nobody questions the importance of knowing what happens outside, but such knowledge should be preceded by knowing what happens inside. Generally, benchmarking will not help resolve incorrectly formulated questions or questions that are misdirected. Externalism can harm human capital management as much as self-centeredness can. An appropriate balance between looking outside and knowing the inside seems to be the obvious solution to this crisis.

IT TAKES A LOT OF LIFE EXPERIENCE TO SEE WHY SOME RELATIONSHIPS LAST AND OTHERS DO NOT. BUT WE DO NOT HAVE TO WAIT FOR A CRISIS TO GET AN IDEA OF A PARTICULAR RELATIONSHIP. OUR BEHAVIOR IN LITTLE EVERYDAY INCIDENTS TELLS US A GREAT DEAL." —Eknath Easwaran

leaders are born in crises and accidents happen when you least expect them.

There was another exception: when your friends were in trouble.

the crew of the Titanic didn't fire the correct distress signals after the ship's collision with the iceberg - instead they released flares at random. The message sent by the rockets was supposed to say 'distress' but in fact it signalled 'I'm having navigation problems; please stay clear'.

In the lifetime of one person, we went from figuring out where we came from to figuring out how to get rid of ourselves.

Many lessons can be learned from the history of Western civilization, but one of them is especially clear. Lack of involvement in the affairs of one's society can lead to a sense of powerlessness. In an age that is often crisis-laden and chaotic, an understanding of our Western heritage and its lessons can be instrumental in helping us create new models for the future. For we are all creators of history, and the future of Western and indeed world civilization depends on us.

I'm screwed up, mixed up, messed around, dive-bombing, crashing and burning.

She pulled into a fetal position, covered her head with the road atlas, and cried with a violence that shook the car. Their

It was an epiphany, the kind only a horrible trauma can induce.

Nothing describes the feeling of absolute dependence better than religion. The only time people turn to it is when they can't handle their own problems.

When they cry "Man overboard!" the oceanliner, as big as a house, stops all at once and the man they fish out with the ropes. But when a man's soul is overboard, when he drowns from horror and from desperation not even his own household stops but distances itself.