Crisis Quotes
There was always an opportunity in crisis, however desperate things seemed.
A person experiences anxiety when they realize their insignificance in the cosmic field, which present state of angst can exacerbated by other confusing life questions.
For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.
It was as if my sould had left my body, floated up to the ceiling, and was watching me destroy my own career with one deliberately assaultive punch. (Dark City Lights)
I always thought a shipwreck was a well-organized affair, but I've learned the devil a lot in the last five minutes.
To exploit living labour, capital must destroy dead labour which is still useful. Loving to suck warm young blood, it kills corpses.
We give more economic aid to multinational corporations to increase their profits than we do to all the countries in the world combined.
God doesn't stop crisis from coming, as He didn't stop Christ from coming. Things have their reasons for happening, we need not to faint, but rather have faith that we are never alone.
The Arab Spring whose seeds failed to bloom anything other than a chaotic mess that requires only blood to grow has contributed immensely to the rising numbers of these migrants.
If only one person were perfectly informed there could never be a general crisis. But the only perfectly informed person is God, and he does not play the stock market.
Imagine the big rating agencies as three competitive saloons standing side by side, with each free to set its own drinking age. Before long, nine-year-olds would be downing bourbon
An android, ” he said, “doesn’t care what happens to another android. That’s one of the indications we look for."“Then, ” Miss Luft said, “you must be an android.
Crisis is Good. Crisis is a Messenger.
Financial illiteracy is like being in a rain storm and trying to jump in between the raindrops... eventually it all catches you at the same time.
Hedge funds have made massive leveraged credit bets, knowing that their upside is billions in fees and their downside is millions in fees.
And since a more convincing argument could not be found—aside from a fatal accident or suicide—this way was chosen: a process of galloping senescence.
Do you believe we are masters of ourselves, or merely dance like puppets on strings having the illusion of independence?
Treat life as a suicide mission, take on the impossible jobs and attack with the gusto of someone who has nothing to lose.... and when you revel in victory, make like it's a dirty win
Why is it that crisis pushes me to my own devices when those devices are frequently the very things that produced my crisis in the first place?
We Have a ChanceTo Save LivesIf We Don't Take ItWe May Regret ItLike We DidWith Alan Kurdi
Capitalism has become systemically risky when a single financial algorithm like the one that David X. Li created brought the entire global economic system close to collapse in 2008.
There comes a time in one’s life, perhaps in middle age, when we stop and assess who we are, and the life we have.
Life itself had become disembodied. My family, the spine of my days, had crumbled. I was lost in invertebrate time.
Evelyn stared into the empty ice cream carton and wondered where the smiling girl in the school pictures had gone.
In adverse circumstances, every creature becomes something else, evolving or devolving. What makes us human is that we know what we once were, and, let us hope, we remember how to change back.
Am I the girl/ Whose giggle crinkles her big eyes/ Or the woman whose small eyes/ Crinkle her vision?
when true purpose calls, double mindedness, confusion and frustration come along.
ISIS is not a mere criminal organization that spreads death wherever it went, it is rather a crisis of a nation.
Your work is what you were born to do. No kind of educational system can teach you your true work, because it is your life purpose, and it is revealed by your God-given gifts.
the fact that every people feel itself threatened by the others gives the state it's definite unifying powers
Together we can remind them there are no excuses to sit back and watch the cycle of extreme poverty continue.
Calling the earth activists, lightworkers, spiritual warriors. Stay awake. Take action. Spread awareness.
Because of the economic crisis, China and the United States are bound together. This is a totally new phenomenon, and nobody will fight for ideology anymore. It's all about business.
Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness. 'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis.
When your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism.
But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.
The failure of Lehman Brothers demonstrated that liquidity provision by the Federal Reserve would not be sufficient to stop the crisis substantial fiscal resources were necessary.
Once our country is fully engulfed in a debt crisis, our economy will be torn apart, and every American will be a victim of the federal government's failure to prevent this disaster.
I learned long ago on the battlefields of Vietnam that in a crisis, there is no substitute for clear-eyed leadership.
In fighting the debt crisis, E.U. countries have enhanced co-operation and carried out reform with tremendous courage. This is laudable.
An entire nation, it seemed, was standing in one long breadline, desperate for even the barest essentials. It was a crisis of monumental proportions. It was known as the Great Depression.
Seeds of faith are always within us sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.