Crisis Quotes

If you want to have a character who falls into crisis, all you have to do is turn the Internet off, and then we all understand how that feels, when you suddenly just have time and yourself.

Today's reports confirm that, unfortunately, post-crisis America is still not back to its good economic self.

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

You are greater than anything that can happen to you. In a big and terrifying crisis, people find within themselves a power and a strength and also a wisdom they had no idea they possessed.

It takes a good crisis to get us going. When we feel fear and we fear loss we are capable of quite extraordinary things.

I have seen water availability change drastically in my own lifetime. Around the world, millions of people are already living in a true water crisis.

No man has ever gone through the crisis of deliberately making Jesus Lord and found Him to be a failure.

I feel that the single-minded pursuit of wealth has led the middle classes into a crisis.

Crisis can be an addiction as powerful as any other.

In fact, the environmental crisis is related to the crisis of aesthetics, crisis of social cohesion and the crisis of spiritual values.

If you don't choose to do it in leadership time up front, you do it in crisis management time down the road.

Everyone learns in a crisis.

The migrants are not a temporary crisis. The crisis is mounting.

A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.

Poetry is the language of a state of crisis.

The science linking the increased frequency and severity of extreme weather to the climate crisis has matured tremendously in the last couple of years.

Each country thinks its school is in a specific crisis, without ever linking the school's crisis to that of the society around it.

The easiest time to be faithful is during a time of crisis. The hardest time for faith is when all is well.

Although the financial crisis, you know, receded a while ago, we kind of never picked up on it.

I'm really good in a crisis, because I don't panic.

A pioneer in this genre [ writing about the refugee crisis] : the book A Seventh Man, by the great John Berger, decades ago evoked the lives of migrant workers in Europe.

The politics of austerity, of higher taxes, decided by governments, have lengthened the economic crisis.

September and October of 2008 was the worst financial crisis in global history, including the Great Depression.

That by 1774 the final crisis of the constitution, brought on by political and social corruption, had been reached was, to most informed colonists, evident.

I've lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.

If we fail to solve this moral and spiritual crisis we may be doomed like the great nations of the past.

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

Religion is a major player in the poaching crisis. We've ignored it, we've accorded religion too much respect in this regard, and we've placed devotion above slaughter.

The crisis of the fisheries is similar to our economy. This is not one fishery failing, but the whole system.

In every race there is a crucial moment when the body wants to quit. Then it needs imagination and mental tenacuty to survive the crisis. Otherwise the penalty is defeat.

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

For many people, illness - loss of health - represents the crisis situation that triggers an awakening. With serious illness comes awareness of your own mortality, the greatest loss of all.

The way the media cycle works, the way the news works, and the way people's attention span works, is that we only learn that people exist when there is crisis.

... any citizen should be willing to give all that he has to give his country in work or sacrifice in times of crisis.

There is a huge crisis of employment in America, in the Western world in general.

The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.

This crisis is not just a crisis. Consumers are understanding for the first time that [their] degree of personal happiness doesn't rise past a certain earnings threshold.

Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families and broken souls.

American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace.

And we need a full affront on an energy crisis that is real in California and looms for other parts of our country if we don't move quickly.

The perfect fascist state needs to operate in conditions of perpetual warfare. Have you ever noticed how the world has been in constant crisis since World War II?

One way to express the spiritual crisis of our time is to say that most of us have an address but cannot be found there.

I believe that the root cause of every financial crisis, the root cause, is flawed government policies

Never waste a good crisis...Don't waste it when it can have a very positive impact on climate change and energy security.

I was going through a crisis once, so I went to therapy because I was so unbearable for myself.

There is some debate in professional circles about whether the so-called “midlife crisis” exists.

Hillary Clinton, like Bill [Clinton], you know, they're not the solution to the crisis.

The climate is not tomorrow. The climate is a year off or maybe 10 years off. So we have to be really clear that we're solving the crisis of economic insecurity at the same time.

By 2030 the demand for resources will create a crisis with dire consequences. Demand for food and energy will jump 50% by 2030 and for fresh water by 30%, as the population tops 8.3 billion

The fact that we live in a world that moves crisis by crisis does not make a growing interest in outdoor activities frivolous, or ample provision for them unworthy of the nation's concern.