Quotes About Crisis

In this age, if the currency of a major nation collapses, or its access to borrowing ends, it just can't function.

Let the wealthier countries and corporations of the world fund an Emergency Organization.

Eviction is fundamentally changing the face of poverty.

Our response to crises cannot be adding more and more police funding.

When people had the cholera it seemed that they remembered nothing but themselves.

Innocent little villages full of homes torn and trampled under foot and burned! the Duchess almost cried out. And worse things than that—worse things!

They kept saying global warming wasn't going to be the end of us, that it was just theatre from the fanatics, that we didn't have to make changes. But every year there were more earthquakes and floods and hurricanes and fires - every element expressing the earth's imbalance.

Minutes after the shootings, everybody's cell phone rang.

I observed you in pain, lad. Pain's merely the axis of the test. Your mother's told you about our ways of observing. I see the signs of her teaching in you. Our test is crisis and observation.

And he realized with an abrupt sense shock that he had been giving more and more reliance to prescient memory and it had weakened him for this particular emergency.

Regulile stricte înal?? fortificaÅ£ii la ad?postul c?rora minÅ£ile înguste creaz? satrapii. Stare de lucruri periculoas? când totul merge bine, dezastruoas? în momente de criz?.

Din cauza percepÈ›iei unidirecÈ›ionale a Timpului în care r?mâne cufundat? mintea convenÈ›ional?, oamenii au tendinÈ›a de a considera orice lucru conform unei scheme continue, definit? prin cuvinte. Aceast? capcan? mental? produce concepte de eficien?? È™i consecinÈ›e pe termen foarte scurt, ceea ce genereaz? condiÈ›ia unor reacÈ›ii invariabile È™i nepreg?tite pentru orice criz?.

Regulile stricte înal?? fortificaÈ›ii la ad?postul c?rora minÈ›ile înguste îi creeaz? pe satrapi. Stare de lucruri periculoas? când totul merge bine, dezastruoas? în momente de criz?.

The Czech crisis had drawn international attention away from the plight of the Jews during the latter part of 1938. Jews who wanted to leave Germany or Austria had to pay an exorbitant 'atonement tax', which left them with hardly any money.

In times of crisis, we must all decide again and again whom we love.

Wild animals are just as confused as people are now. You've got toxins in the water, oil, sewage, all sorts of things.

If wildly variable refereeing standards not yet a crisis, we are reaching a tipping point. And it may take more than the dawn of VARs to sort out the mess.

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

I think the environmental problem will be the number one item on the agenda of the 21st century... This is a problem that cannot be postponed.

I always turn to Wendy Williams when there's any type of ethical or moral crisis in our country.

No matter what the president or anyone tried to do on health care, they never got the headlines, because the Gulf oil spill happened. It seemed like it sucked the wind out of the whole health care debate.

We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.

We enter the government essentially in a hotel that is on fire. We're throwing people from the windows into the pool to save their lives and this is the evaluation of the Olympic diving committee: Well, the splash was too big.

I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.