Quotes About Crisis

At some point, I kind of went through this weird existential crisis in high school where I was just really depressed.

As a kid, I was depressed and riddled with anxiety. The bottom dropped out when I was 19.

Even if consumer confidence hit rock bottom, that most likely would not be enough, by itself, to cause a depression.

Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best.

The world is being destroyed by psychopaths, so of all the things to be concerned about - acting, it's not really up there, is it?

Even the wealth of the U.S. cannot protect against the levels of environmental destruction that we are unleashing.

The climate continues to deteriorate.

It shouldn't take a constitutional crisis or an attack on the nation to create honest dialogue in the Senate.

You don't go to tarot readers or psychics when everything's going well. It's always evidence of rock-bottom.

Part of my job at 'The Economist' was writing about HIV, and that included the grim task of reporting on the state of the global epidemic.

Usually, the leaders appear in the moment of the highest stress, when it is time, speaking symbolically, to go to the barricades. Then people, clever, capable, but focused on their own tasks, will leave their immediate occupations and go to the barricades, because there is nowhere to hide.

The Obama administration's large and sustained increases in debt raise the specter of another financial crisis and large future tax increases, further chilling business investment and job creation.

At a time when the United States is handing out tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, corporate jet owners, and millionaires and billionaires, it is ludicrous that we would even be looking at Social Security and Medicare as a solution to our debt crisis.

You raise taxes during an economic crisis time, as we did in - back in the time of Herbert Hoover, you send the country into a depression.

The Netherlands has been severely hit by the debt crisis, and the solution is to lower taxes, get government finances in order, and make room for investment.

Taxpayer money should not have to be spent to save a misguided and mismanaged enterprise.

Most of the mainstream coverage of most of the crisis - the economy, the road to get here, and the Tea Party - has been very much lacking.

There's a lot of stuff they don't teach you in the mythical editors' school. They don't teach you that you're going to have to spend a lot of your life in crisis management.

I want to assure your excellency that I am occupying myself permanently and jointly with my team to achieve a solution as soon as possible to this crisis, the principal objective being the safeguarding of the health and life of those who are inside.

If it had not been for clam chowder, I would have jumped from a bridge into the frozen River Charles.

So Newark had the highest percentage of substandard housing of any American city: 7,097 units had no flush toilets; 28,795, no heaters. Twenty-eight babies died in a diarrhea epidemic in 1965, eighteen of them at City Hospital, which was also infested by bats.

America the Innocent, always searching for the totems of a unity that it can never quite achieve--even, or especially, when its crises of disunity are most pressing. It is one of the structuring stories of our nation. The "return to normalcy" enjoined by Warren Harding after the Great War; the cult of suburban home and hearth after World War II; the union of hearts declaimed by Adams on Boston's Bunker Hill parade ground after the War Between the States.

But I'm a fucking hypocrite; because when things get bad enough, I pray for help. And tonight, things are bad.

The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.