Quotes About Crisis

Rahm Emanuel told the Wall Street Journal, "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste." There was a short window for the new Obama administration, "an opportunity for us to do things that you could not do before

The author likens crisis, and particularly war, to stop motion photography in its capacity to make changes plain that are ordinarily too gradual to be seen.

Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners.

If a few people escape from a burning building before the firemen arrive, does that discourage the firemen from rescuing others who are still trapped?

I was twenty years old at the time. Three years earlier I had experienced for the first time the new life, the love, the joy of knowing Jesus Christ in a personal way. A crisis came, I called upon Him, and suddenly He was there, alive! In fact, two thousand years had not aged Him a bit! I found He still had the same power to transform men's lives and hold their loyalty that He had manifested in the Gospels two millenniums before.

Opiates are a response to pain. Physical pain, emotional pain, economic pain. He's looking at all three. The Heroin Trifecta.

We can say that the roots of the heroin epidemic are in Mexican soil, but opiates are always a response to pain. What is the pain in the heart of American society that sends us searching for a drug to lessen it, to dampen it?

There comes a time in a man's life, he figured, the infamous midlife crisis, when a guy has to face the reality that what he has is all he's going to get, and he needs to find his peace and his happiness in his life as it is.

Remember in 1973 the same science chatter said that the coming Ice Age is going to occur, we're going to lose millions of people. And the politicians knew how to solve it, they just didn't have the courage to solve it they were going to put coal dust on the Arctic.

inner sanctuary to which the beleaguered ego repairs in time of crisis is also a world that opens onto transpersonal energies.

Man must learn that his current path is not suitable for Earth, and soon, Earth won't be suitable for Man.

Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life's savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all.

Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.

It takes a variety of strategies and initiatives to address this pandemic. It's about life and death and the survival of humanity.

The world turned into a big black hole while my daughter was on the verge of life and death.

The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.

Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.

My life has been a series of emergencies.

A painful time in our life is what I call a healing crisis. We are letting go of something old and opening to something new.

I'll bet most of the companies that are in life-or-death battles got into that kind of trouble because they didn't pay enough attention to developing their leaders.

Everyone has a worst time in their life. There's always a worse time. We are all either in a crisis, coming to one or coming out of one.

When there is no longer a cyclone, there is no longer an eye. So the storms, crises and sufferings of life are a way of finding the eye.

Meu querido, o bilhete começa, tenho certeza de que vou enlouquecer de novo. Não podemos passar por mais uma daquelas crises terríveis [...]

Maybe, she thought, everyone was only ever two feet from disaster, and it was luck, not fundamental goodness, that made all the difference.