Quotes About Crisis

She was in deep trouble and knew it

The human race is being reprogrammed. Young people everywhere suddenly became pacifists in the 1960s after a millennium of violence. Our world was invaded, but not by the hordes of Martians and Venusians envisioned by the flying-saucer believers. We were invaded by new ideas and a new inner structure that would help guide us to the anticipated crises of the 1990s.

resolve and commitment. As a feminist, I wish the pope had addressed the ways that patriarchy, power-over relationships, and the church's history of misogyny have all contributed to our ecological crisis. We have

When it comes to dealing with change and crisis, grace becomes evident in how we treat one another.

Leading in crisis requires an ability to remain composed, focused, and engaged when tensions rise.

London gold dealers, in describing the day's action [during the 1968 gold crisis], used the un-British words "stampede," "catastrophe," and "nightmare.

The crisis is primarily, perhaps almost entirely, the consequence of decisions taken by private firms in an environment of minimal regulation

But whenever a crisis hits, many of the biggest players—banks, investment banks, hedge funds—rush to reduce their exposures, causing liquidity to dry up. Where previously there was heterogeneity and diversity of opinion, now there is unanimity: everybody wants to get out.

I remember the '80s being about the Cold War and Reagan and the homeless problem and AIDS. To me, it was kind of a dark, depressing time.

The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.

We have a cancer within, close to the Presidency, that is growing.

The crisis of our prayer life is that our minds may be filled with ideas of God while our hearts remain far from him.

If you look weird, you can blame the role, you know? So no one's going to tell me I'm having a mid-life crisis.

The turning point in the life of those who succeed usually comes at the moment of some crisis.

There comes a point in your life when you become stark raving insane, commit suicide or become a mystic.

Life isn't like coursework, baby. It's one damn essay crisis after another.

Midway in our life's journey, I went astray from the straight road and woke to find myself alone in a dark wood.

Suicide is like the ejector button in the cockpit of an F-15. If life goes into a permanent tail spin, it's nice to know the option is there.

Havin lunch and debatin Ferrari prices. 23 and goin through a midlife crisis.

What do you do when your entire identity is destroyed in an instant? How do you cope when your whole life story turns out to bw wrong?

Around mid-life everyone goes maniac a little bit.

You know what's funny? I don't ever feel the need to escape. I have a strong marriage. I like my life. You hear about these guys having midlife crises - I don't see that happening to me.

The healthy life is hardly one marked by an absence of crises. In fact, an individual's psychological health is distinguished by how early he or she can meet crisis.

I was at a point in my life that was really between life or death, and I sort of intuitively and instinctively knew, I have to listen.