Quotes About Crisis

A sharp bolt of hunger hit Luther hard. His knees almost buckled, his poker face almost grimaced. For two weeks now his sense of smell had been much keener, no doubt a side effect of a strict diet. Maybe he got a whiff of Mabel's finest, he wasn't sure, but a craving came over him. Suddenly, he had to have something to eat. Suddenly, he wanted to snatch the bag from Kendall, rip open a package, and start gnawing on a fruitcake.

I'm in shock now. I'm not believing this, Mitch. This is like a bad dream, only much worse." "And this is only the beginning.

and as a general rule she did not call the doctor until Theo was half dead.

The ship was sinking and the rats were jumping overboard.

If what had happened in the past few months was not sensational enough

Only a change in our way of life would heal the sickness of our age — and this is only likely to happen when disaster confronts us.

Of a hundred and fifty doctors in the city, sixty-five were already dead and most of the rest were wounded. Of 1,780 nurses, 1,654 were dead or too badly hurt to work. In the biggest hospital, that of the Red Cross, only six doctors out of thirty were able to function, and only ten nurses out of more than two hundred.

Mankind must destroy anti-humanity before it becomes extinct itself.

The theory of crisis is not just a theory of fear but also a theory of hope.

The time to read Madame Bovary is when your romantic hopes and desires have crashed, and you will believe that your future relationships will have disappointing - even devastating - consequences.

You should wait, William, Miss Frost said. The time to read Madame Bovary is when your romantic hopes and desires have crashed, and you believe that your future relationships will have disappointing - even devastating - consequences.

By '95 - in New York, alone - more Americans had died of AIDS than were killed in Vietnam.

ONE DAY THERE WILL COME AN EPIDEMIC

If or when there's another plague, I hope America has a better plague president than Ronald Reagan," the

Then the shit hit the fan.

All crisis have involved debt that, in one fashion or another, has become dangerously out of scale in relation to the underlying means of payment.

The first is the extreme brevity of the financial memory. In consequence, financial disaster is quickly forgotten.

And, hence, to manage it. For if, as Thucydides warned two thousand years earlier, words in crises can lose their meaning, leaving in the "ability to see all sides of a question [an] incapacity to act on any,"82

Vietnam del Sur se hundiría de un día para otro», advirtió John F. Kennedy a su auditorio en Texas, la mañana del 22 de noviembre de 1963. Y con Vietnam del Sur se desplomarían también las alianzas que Estados Unidos mantenía

After becoming president in 1933, however, this Roosevelt did insist on putting America first. With its banks collapsing, a fourth of its workforce unemployed, and its self-confidence badly shaken, recovery took precedence over everything else.

People were dying like flies

In the whole the face of things, as I say, was much altered; sorrow and sadness sat upon every face; and though some parts were not yet overwhelmed, yet all looked deeply concerned; and as we saw it apparently coming on, so every one looked on himself and his family as in the utmost danger.

The federal government was giving no guidance that a reasoning person could credit. Few local governments did better. They left a vacuum. Fear filled it. The government's very efforts to preserve "morale" fostered the fear, for since the war began, morale—defined in the narrowest, most shortsighted fashion—had taken precedence in every public utterance. As California senator Hiram Johnson said in 1917, "The first casualty when war comes is truth.

Investigators today believe that in the United States the 1918–19 epidemic caused an excess death toll of about 675,000 people.