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Quotes About Crisis

Cu cat este mai mare criza, cu atat mai rapida este evolutia.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
It's easy enough to pray when you're in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainments.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
She wrote, "The greater the crisis, it seems, the swifter the evolution." She wrote, "All transformation appears to be motivated by desperation and emergency." She
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
The emergency that always gets you in the end is the one you didn't prepare for.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
The greater the crisis, it seems, the swifter the evolution.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
forty million people are trying to figure out how to pay off a combined $1.4 trillion in student loan debt.
~ Elizabeth Warren
I don't mean to sound like a spoiled brat. I know that into every sunny life a little rain must fall and all that, but in my case, the crisis-level hysteria is an all-too-recurring theme. The voices inside my head, which I used to think were just passing through, seem to have taken up residence And I've been on these goddamn pills for years.
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
Environmental history is, among other things, a lengthy account of human beings over and over imagining their way into a serious pickle.
~ Elliot West
I think there are some who live on a knife-edge in the soul, and at times are driven to hurl themselves into the air, at the mercy of heaven or he'll which way to fall.
~ Ellis Peters
If your crisis has turned into a long-lasting trial, it's more important than ever that you surround yourself with intelligent, caring friends who will be in it with you for the long haul. The greater the spiritual battle, the more there is likely at stake—in your life and in the spiritual realm. Gird yourself for battle, and refuse to give in or give up.
~ Alfred Ells
The world of today is at the crossroads--[t]he whole scheme of aimless capitalism and the last dregs of traditionalist nationalism are being seen more clearly in their death struggle.
~ Alfred Kazin
My criticism of Hegel procedure is that when in his discussion he arrives at a contradiction, he construes it as a crisis in the universe.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
Today such news would galvanize the Medical Corps, but in 1918 it attracted only a modicum of attention.
~ Alfred W. Crosby
Spanish influenza had rounded the globe in four months following its appearance in the United States and fully earned a promotion from epidemic to pandemic. It had infected so many that, for all its mildness, it had doubtlessly killed tens of thousands already. In its next wave it would kill millions.
~ Alfred W. Crosby
It was the worst of times, it was the worst of times.
~ Ali Smith
Once it would have been a year's worth of news. But news right now is like a flock of speeded-up sheep running off the side of a cliff.
~ Ali Smith
My history and civilization are literally melting; everyone knows.
~ Alice Notley
I want to walk away. Leave the crisis.
~ Alice Notley
This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs, things today might have been different.
~ Alice Paul
1952 there were over 700 cases of polio in Detroit. Dr. Bodywork Bob had told me that. I told Rouse; he bogeyed a hole. Polio was hitting families all over town, white and colored, rich and poor, center of the city and suburbs.
~ Alice Randall
Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
~ Alice Walker
Yet we're so weary of living with the ongoing crisis that we return to the same behaviors and habits—and our adult children have us pegged.
~ Allison Bottke
Rome, Abby." I ignored him and turned to my aunt. "A month before my father disappeared, he needed you in Rome. Now I need you in Rome.
~ Ally Carter
si fuera más joven no estaría tan preocupada, porque para crisis, las que he tenido que chuparme yo, hijo mío. Pero nosotros podíamos, nosotros éramos fuertes, estábamos acostumbrados a sufrir, a emigrar, a pelear, y sin embargo, ahora...
~ Almudena Grandes