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Quotes About Crisis

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.
~ Pedro Almodovar
Nos faltaba el empujón. Los poquitos grados de fuerza para que se terminara de romper todo lo que estaba fisurado.
~ Unknown
The paper was folded twice without a speck on it and bore a note in his handwriting: I cannot go on any longer. I was sure that was something we understood, both Jesper and I, that he could not go on any longer, but what it was he could not go on with we had no idea, because he was as strong as an ox and could work harder and longer than anyone else I have ever known.
~ Per Petterson
There may be a point in your life in which you are drowning so fast and fighting it so furiously that you don't have the strength left to call out for help. At that point don't expect one of your friends to jump into the water, if you've spent most of your life instructing them to mind their own business.
~ Perry Brass
This looks like a job for emergency pants!
~ Unknown
of the Shadows, a powerful exposé that documented how deinstitutionalization and failed government policies had created a "mental health crisis" in America.
~ Pete Earley
For someone who's been traumatized, that feeling of balance and wholeness is such a surprise, it can cause an "identity crisis." We don't recognize ourselves because we're no longer filled with shame and fear and collapse.
~ Peter A. Levine
glazed eyes, pale skin, rapid or shallow pulse and breathing, disorientation, appears overly emotional or overly tranquil, i.e., acting like nothing has happened),
~ Peter A. Levine
Later, she called him. Hopper said, "I love you, I need you." She replied, " Have you ever thought of suicide?
~ Unknown
When we think of "strong" faith as something that should be free of uncertainty or crises, I believe we have gotten wrong an important part of who God is and how the Christian life really works.
~ Unknown
Feel free to call this a faith crisis. It's hard to imagine talking like this in church. Letting your guard down and bearing your soul with this degree of raw honesty is risky. You might find yourself in the middle of a protect-you-from-atheism intervention prayer phone chain faster than you can say "Bill Maher." Or you might be judged as a weak or uncommitted Christian and shunned.
~ Unknown
Political policies determine how the human race confronts this crisis. War doesn't have that ability. War has only one outcome. War is stupid, Ralph. It is the desecration of the human spirit, martyring yourself for someone else's dream. It is for people who do not believe in themselves.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
Civilization was a blessing you never truly appreciated until it threatened to collapse around you.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
at an exponential rate, and the entire Confederation will fall, every living human will become possessed.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
There are degrees of screwed.
~ Unknown
In other words, America performed terribly in the face of the crisis of European Jewry, except in comparison to every other country.
~ Unknown
pervasive sense of crisis that fostered support for extremist positions and simplifying explanations.
~ Unknown
PLH are in big trouble.
~ Unknown
the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had said. And although there was famine in every country, there was food throughout the land of Egypt.
~ Genesis 41:54
And every nation came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the earth.
~ Genesis 41:57
Then Moses cried out to the LORD, “What should I do with these people? A little more and they will stone me!”
~ Exodus 17:4
Now Abimelech son of Jerubbaal went to his motherís brothers at Shechem and said to them and to all the clan of his mother,
~ Judges 9:1
When David learned that Saul was plotting evil against him, he said to Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod.”
~ 1 Samuel 23:9
But now the LORD my God has given me rest on every side, and there is no adversary or crisis.
~ 1 Kings 5:4