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Quotes About Crisis

The middle is the longest in any story, and therefore the time with the most desperation.
~ Rick Moody
Maybe it's the other way around," Jason suggested. "Maybe people with special gifts show up when bad things are happening because that's when they're needed most.
~ Rick Riordan
Maybe people with special gifts show up when bad things are happening because that's when they're needed most.
~ Rick Riordan
Somebody once told me that a hero's bravery has to be unplanned - a genuine response to a crisis. It has to come from the heart, without any thought of reward.
~ Rick Riordan
She was rescued from Poland by a priest during the war. At times of national crisis, she can be seen to cry." Jackson thought it might have been better if the priest had rescued a few Jews instead of a plaster statue.
~ Kate Atkinson
You're trying to shore up a civilization that's in its death throes," Hugh said, as casually as if he were remarking on the weather. "There's really no point.
~ Kate Atkinson
In this grave hour, perhaps the most fateful in our history, I send to every household of my peoples, both at home and overseas, this message, spoken with the same depth of feeling for each one of you as if I were able to cross your threshold and speak to you myself.
~ Kate Williams
Ohio, lawmakers have taken money from TANF, the welfare program that supports poor families, and given it to so-called crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) whose mission is to discourage pregnant women from having abortions. (That's right: Embryos and fetuses deserve government support, not the actual, living children they may become.)
~ Katha Pollitt
Everyone has good cause for suicide, or at least it seems that way to those who search for it.
~ Kay Redfield Jamison
Then, suddenly, I was unpredictably and uncontrollably irrational and destructive. This was not something that could be overcome by protocol or etiquette. God, conspicuously, was nowhere to be found.
~ Kay Redfield Jamison
The truth is, Japan is headed for crisis. We are in the hands of greedy businessmen and weak politicians. Such people will see to it poverty grows every day.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Nicole was trying to rouse her dad. Hayley was doing the same with the pilot. I took the headset and got on the radio again. No one was responding. So either we tried to land or we kept flying until Sam lost control and we plunged into the strait.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Wake him up!" Hayley shouted. "Someone wake him up!" Daniel and I shook the pilot. The helicopter dropped a couple of feet and we stumbled. Corey ran over. "Help me get him out!" he shouted to Daniel as he grabbed the front of the pilot's jacket. "I can fly it." "Based on what?" Sam appeared at his side. "Video games?" Corey scowled. "You got a better idea?
~ Kelley Armstrong
And what if Britain lost? There would be a financial crisis, unemployment, and destitution. Working-class men would take up Ethel's father's cry and say that they had never been allowed to vote for the war. The people's rage against their rulers would be boundless.
~ Ken Follett
Every catastrophe begins with a little problem that doesn't get fixed.
~ Ken Follett
supply had been cut off and livestock were dying of thirst.
~ Ken Follett
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~ Ken Follett
Zustand drohender Kriegsgefahr. Prepare for imminent war.
~ Ken Follett
first international crisis.
~ Ken Follett
vieron cómo, hora tras hora, el mundo se iba acercando cada vez más al borde del desastre.
~ Ken Follett
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~ Ken Follett
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~ Ken Follett
The culture was constantly telling us one thing, and the realities of society were consistently failing to deliver it—the culture was lying. This was a deep and serious legitimation crisis: a culture that is consistently lying to its members simply cannot move forward for long.
~ Ken Wilber
There is energy and power in a crisis.
~ Andrew Cuomo