Quotes on Crisis

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

Author: Dante Alighieri

Real style is not having a program - it's how one behaves in a crisis.

Author: Frank Auerbach

I support the recommendations made by the International Crisis Group. The primary responsibility is for Kosovo Albanians to demonstrate that their treatment of minorities is adequate.

Author: Emma Bonino

Several unions have agreed to larger employee contributions for their members. Taxpayers are living with cuts and making sacrifices to deal with the reality of California's budget crisis, state workers are going to have to do the same.

Author: Jerry Brown

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

Author: Jerry Bruckheimer

In a crisis, don't hide behind anything or anybody. They're going to find you anyway.

Author: Paul Bryant

In reality drilling is the slowest, dirtiest, and most expensive way to solve our energy crisis.

Author: Lois Capps

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.

Author: Iris Chang

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

Author: Anton Chekhov

We've got to be judged by how we do in times of crisis.

Author: Johnnie Cochran

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.

Author: John Conyers

If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.

Author: Doug Coupland

You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film.

Author: Claire Danes

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

Author: Bret Ellis

While Social Security faces some long-term challenges, the system is not in crisis.

Author: Chaka Fattah

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.

Author: James Garfield

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

Author: Susan George

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.

Author: Alexander Haig

I am pleased to see that many of the world's leaders have publicly recognized that the crisis in the Middle East was deliberately incited by terrorist organizations.

Author: Alcee Hastings

I believed that our own public would keep this in mind even in this serious crisis, and stand firm if only we at the front continued to stand firm too.

Author: Paul Hindenburg

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

Author: Eric Hoffer

I was in the middle of a crossroads, which is a nice way of saying crisis, physically, emotionally and spiritually. You know the physical part. We just talked about it.

Author: Star Jones

When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can't be answered.

Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski

But the most important thing about that story, which is not often told, is that as a result after the Cuban missile crisis, immediate steps were taken to correct our inability to collect on the movement of nuclear material out of the Soviet Union to other places.

Author: David Kay

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

Author: Henry Kissinger

It is, I think, particularly in periods of acknowledged crisis that scientists have turned to philosophical analysis as a device for unlocking the riddles of their field. Scientists have not generally needed or wanted to be philosophers.

Author: Thomas Kuhn

Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.

Author: Christopher Lasch

I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through.

Author: Sean Lennon

I wouldn't go back on my old days, though; everybody needs to have their wild years. It's just a question of when and I'd rather have had them early than be doing it as a mid-life crisis type thing.

Author: Rob Lowe

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

Author: Richard Neal

Every little thing counts in a crisis.

Author: Jawaharlal Nehru

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.

Author: Jean O'Leary

Believe me, the next step is a currency crisis because there will be a rejection of the dollar, the rejection of the dollar is a big, big event, and then your personal liberties are going to be severely threatened.

Author: Ron Paul

The administration is manufacturing a crisis that does not exist in order to dismantle Social Security.

Author: Jack Reed

The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty.

Author: Jeffrey Sachs

I think the IMF helped to detonate the Indonesian crisis.

Author: Jeffrey Sachs

We are confronting a situation in which the Administration, in my view, is once again manufacturing a crisis. There is no crisis in the Social Security system. The system is not on the verge of bankruptcy.

Author: Paul Sarbanes

The administration in my view is once again manufacturing a crisis. There is no crisis in the Social Security system. The system is not on the verge of bankruptcy.

Author: Paul Sarbanes

Simply put, drilling in ANWR would be expensive, environmentally devastating, and would do very little to fix our energy crisis or to bring down the price of oil and gasoline.

Author: Allyson Schwartz

Motherhood has relaxed me in many ways. You learn to deal with crisis. I've become a juggler, I suppose. It's all a big circus, and nobody who knows me believes I can manage, but sometimes I do.

Author: Jane Seymour

However, the combination of civil resistance, of large-scale mass activities and strikes, with a certain degree of revolutionary violence, could provoke a crisis in the enemy's camp that would ultimately lead to essential changes.

Author: Joe Slovo

The crisis that the world finds itself in as it swings on the hinge of a new millennium is located in something deeper than particular ways of organizing political systems and economies.

Author: Huston Smith

I don't like the term mid-life crisis.

Author: Pamela Stephenson

The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory.

Author: James Tobin

I do not believe that the Social Security system is in crisis.

Author: Jim Walsh

Republicans are manufacturing a Social Security crisis that does not exist in order to dismantle Social Security.

Author: Diane Watson

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

Author: H. Wells

The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do.

Author: Raymond Williams

Sometimes the biggest pandemics are born out of the self-inflicted wounds of ignorance and hubris.

Author: Julia Rodriguez