Crisis Quotes

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.

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

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!

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.

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.

My father's generation's crisis was fighting fascism. Ours is fighting climate change. It is much harder because you can't see it, it is not an obvious threat. But the solution is in our hands.

The current situation of the earthquake, tsunami and the nuclear plants is in a way the most severe crisis in the 65 years since World War II.

If enough of us stop looking away and decide that climate change is a crisis worthy of Marshall Plan levels of response, then it will become one.

The crisis is the price for the capitalist system

There is a crisis in America. That crisis is divorce. It is easier to get out of a marriage than (to get out of a) contract to buy a used car.

In 2013 we had never faced a crisis like the Syrian refugee crisis now. Up until that point, a refugee meant someone fleeing oppression, fleeing Communism like it is in my community.

It's not just an economic crisis that capitalism has created. We also face an environmental catastrophe created by a handful of gigantic fossil fuel corporations.

The fight against HIV/AIDS requires leadership from all parts of government - and it needs to go right to the top. AIDS is far more than a health crisis. It is a threat to development itself.

I think all of Europe has been too soft on the refugee crisis.

Where I once constantly lost my temper, I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace.

When you have a time of crisis what happens depends on what ideas are floating around, and what ideas have been developed, and thought through, and are made effective.

The midlife crisis you're having at 30 is indulgent, but the midlife crisis you have at 45 is to an extent thrust upon you.

There is no better illustration of that crisis than the fact that the president is openly violating our nation's laws by authorizing the NSA to engage in warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens.

It's kind of like a midlife crisis kind of thing. When you turn 40, you have to run the marathon, while all the parts still work properly.

If you have a crisis, whether on a ship or wherever, there are heroes who rise above it.

We must create a [economic] crisis in order to ensure that there is no alternative to a smaller government.

The problem is: When two governments or institutions in Europe hold differing opinions, it is immediately a crisis.

If Carter had been there when the AIDS crisis came up, it would have been a whole different story. It could have been treated like a legitimate disease.

The Marine Corps has been, and will continue to be, America's Expeditionary Force in Readiness - ready to respond to today's crisis, with today's Marine forces, today.

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis. Conservatives have their place in the piping times of peace; but in emergencies only rugged issue men amount to much.

On his multi-player injury substitutions against Western Samoa-It was like the Falklands crisis. I was counting them in and counting them out.

Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.

We do not have an ecological crisis. The ecosphere has a human crisis. Our 'story' about our place in the scheme of things has somehow gone awry in the industrial age.

The issue of managing through a crisis is you have to be decisive even if you don't have perfect information.

Crises are challenges, not calamities.

Our theology is still in a time of crisis, and I think this will last for some years more.

The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.

In times of war and in hours of crisis, Senator Kerry has turned his back on 'pay any price' and 'bear any burden', and he's replaced those commitments with 'wait and see' and 'cut and run'.

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

There was an omnipresent sense of crisis.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He's not crazy, it's just the litany of the mid-life crisis.

The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.

Courage taught me no matter how bad a crisis gets… any sound investment will eventually pay off.

When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.

Financial crises are an unfortunate but necessary consequence of modern capitalism.

There is energy and power in a crisis.

American dependence on oil has only gone up as we've gone through various crises and not invested in R&D.

Give assistance, not advice, in a crisis.

Barack Obama is a president who, when he had to deal with the 2008 economic crisis, has led the American economy on a completely different path than the one that Europe has chosen eight years later.