Crisis Quotes

Those who manage their way into a crisis are not necessarily the right people to manage their way out of a crisis

The world will not evolve past its current state of crisis by using the same thinking that created the situation.

A sure sign of a crisis is the prevalence of cranks. It is characteristic of a crisis in theory that cranks get a hearing from the public which orthodoxy is failing to satisfy.

Germany has acted effectively during the euro crisis. It needs to build on this to engage in other spheres too.

Then came the hostage crisis during which Carter did nothing to rattle the ayatollahs who hung tough until Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, when they suddenly backed down.

This is sort of the Cuban Missile Crisis on steroids, what we are doing to Russia right now, and I don't think this is a good idea.

If only life were one long crisis, everyone would be perfect.

What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision.

A lot of times when you do things where you're killing people, the character is always having an existential crisis about it. It's fun to be no-holds-barred and have no big crisis of conscious.

We're dealing with a crisis of inequality, of joblessness, of underemployment.

We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.

We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.

Whatever crisis you are going through, fruit will come from it. Allow the crisis to bring fruit.

...there seems to be a correlation between the intensity of the official attacks on gold and the severity of monetary crises.

A crisis is a close encounter of the third kind.

This crisis has the potential to be a lot worse than Lehman Brothers.

Of course, speculation will always make a crisis worse. If there is a weak point, it will expose it.

In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body.

Here comes 40. I'm feeling my age and I've ordered the Ferrari. I'm going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.

I think there needs to be a meeting to set an agenda for more meetings about meetings.

How do you eat your roots?

I felt held hostage by her illness and by the backward mental health system that once again was incapable of helping our family in crisis.

This crisis is not simply a more severe version of the usual business cycle recession, the typical downturn in which economies ultimately adjust and stabilize.

I understand the damage the expenses crisis has done to Parliament, and the paramount importance of restoring trust in our politics.

The issue with international institutions is that there is a crisis of legitimacy. Trust in these institutions is a serious problem.

The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.

In all honesty, we all want our fantasy selves to be the best people. We all think in a time of crisis, we will react heroically and with humanity.

Social Security is not in crisis. It's a crisis the president's created, period.

Problems aren’t out there, whatever is missing is what you are not giving, and whatever crisis you are hitting is a call for more of you to come out, for more of you to emerge.

Your system was liable to periodical convulsions, business crises at intervals of five to ten years, which wrecked the industries of the nation.

Even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there’s no reason to add to everyone’s misery by looking miserable yourself.

It's easy enough to pray when you're in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainment.

Honestly, Flav is not much of a video game player these days. BUT, I used to spend hours on Time Crisis. I beat all levels, man.

There was an omnipresent sense of crisis.

If NATO goes in and solves the crisis in Darfur, when the next one comes along Africa's leaders will just sit back.

I lived through crises. September 11 is obviously the biggest one that I've lived through.

We know that advanced economies with stable governments that borrow in their own currency are capable of running up very high levels of debt without crisis.

We have already seen some instances of systemic risk in recent times in the Asian financial crisis. But what sparked off the Asian financial crisis? Automated trading programmes!

Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.

When one has a crisis of faith it means one is struck by the realisation than one has been pretending know things that one doesn't know.

Only those leaders who act boldly in times of crisis and change are willingly followed.

Don't wait until you're in a crisis to come up with a crisis plan.

May the Lord bless the family and strengthen it in this moment of crisis

We live in a time of crisis in the secular culture and in the church with regard to the beautiful.

Don’t get distracted by the shiny object [and if a crisis comes], execute on the fundamentals.

President Bush is manufacturing a crisis by suggesting that Social Security is in imminent danger. It is not.

Why can't peace be a single overriding common purpose: why do we wait for a crisis to pull us together? Let's pull together for peace.

In times of crisis, it is of the utmost importance that one does not lose her head. Marie Antoinette

There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms.

The World Bank is now the biggest culprit in the debt crisis.