Crisis Quotes

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

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

So when the crisis is upon you remember that God like a trainer of wrestlers has matched you with a tough and stalwart antagonist... that you may prove a victor at the Great Games.

Epictetus

When written in Chinese the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

John F Kennedy

Winston has written four volumes about himself and called it 'World Crisis'.

Arthur Balfour

Poetry is the language of a state of crisis.

Stéphane Mallarmé

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

Henry Kissinger

There is no crisis to which academics will not respond with a seminar.

Old saying

Faced with crisis the man of character falls back on himself.

Charles de Gaulle

The crisis you have to worry about most is the one you don't see coming.

Mike Mansfield

..[The] disclosure of the incest secret initiates a profound crisis for the family usually...the abuse has been going on for a number of years and has become an integral part of family life. Disclosure disrupts whatever fragile equilibrium has been maintained, jeopardizes the functioning of all family members, increases the likelihood of violent and desperate behavior, and places everyone, but particularly the daughter, at risk for retaliation.

Judith Lewis Herman

The crisis is a period in which a diseased social, economic, and political body or system cannot live on as before and is obliged, on pain of death, to undergo transformations that will give it a new lease on life. Therefore, this period of crisis is a historical moment of danger and suspense during which the crucial decisions and transformations are made, which will determine the future development of the system if any and its new social, economic, and political basis.

André Gunder Frank

Together we can remind them there are no excuses to sit back and watch the cycle of extreme poverty continue.

Auliq-Ice

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.

Dr. Myles Munroe

He’s becoming useless. Worse than useless,” Sam said. Then, relenting, he said, “We’ll get past it.”“You mean you and Quinn?”“Yeah.”Astrid considered just keeping her mouth shut, not pushing it. But this was a talk she needed to have with Sam sooner or later. “I don’t think he’s going to get over it.”“You don’t know him that well.”“He’s jealous of you.”“Well, of course I am so terribly handsome,” Sam said, straining to make a joke of it.“He’s one kind of person, you’re another. When life is going along normally, you’re sort of the same. But when life turns strange and scary, when there’s a crisis, suddenly you’re completely different people. It’s not Quinn’s fault, really, but he’s not brave. He’s not strong. You are.

Michael Grant

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.

Brian Herbert

Not everything that happens in your life has to hit you like a hurricane.

Joyce Rachelle

I should have learned mindfulness, and it’s too late now because it’s no good learning it when you’re already in crisis: you have to start when things are good. But only the very, very oddest would think, Hey, my life is perfect. I know! I’ll sit and waste twenty minutes Observing My Thoughts without Judgement.

Marian Keyes

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?

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

Josh Stern

The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

Hunter S. Thompson

Shall I make you a cup of tea? He asked. It was the classic response to crisis practiced throughout these islands—in England, Scotland, and elsewhere. Emotional turmoil, danger, even disaster could be faced with far greater equanimity if the kettle was switched on. War has been declared! There’s been a major earthquake! The stock market has collapsed! Oh really? Let me put the kettle on….

Alexander McCall Smith

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.

Mira Bartok

I am a mask, concealing the real.

Philip K Dick

Everyone loves a girl who can rise to a crisis.

Allan Dare Pearce

If you aren’t ready, you spend your whole life perseverating on that one situation, getting it wrong time and again. I like to think I am a woman who learns her lesson, but the trick is that you can only ever understand your life backwards, but you live it forward.

Valentine Glass

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.

Mircea Eliade

Survivors are often good at both resolving and generating crisis. While this capacity to handle crisis can make you a good emergency room worker or ambulance driver, it can also be a way for you to keep yourself from feeling. If you are addicted to intensity and drama...you may be running from yourself.

Ellen Bass

...the existential paradox we all experience; we feel that we are immortal, yet we know that we will die.

Calvin Trillin

I believe those of us who have gone through serious hardships become, in some cosmic way, related. We form a tribe of battle veterans and fellow pilgrims suffused with knowledge none of us wanted. And although the admission to the club is unexpected and painful, the people you meet once you are there and the person you become will be with you forever

Susan Mecca

Crisis is Good. Crisis is a Messenger.

Bryant McGill

Persons in whom a crisis takes place pass the night preceding the paroxysm uncomfortably, but the succeeding night generally more comfortably.

Hippocrates

Then the shit hit the fan.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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.

Robert Skidelsky

this very act of consenting to its loss of control is itself the critical event of all crisis. To give up ones stature as the director of ones own existance: this is, for us, the ultimate death, the crisis that undermines our being in the most radical way.

Jerome A. Miller

The only way to cry your eyes out and laugh your ass off at the same time is to have your mom or girlfriends present. Without them, the laughing part wouldn't be nearly as fun.

Shannon L. Alder

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.

Anthony Liccione

Treat this crisis as practice for the next crisis.

John Parenti

We give more economic aid to multinational corporations to increase their profits than we do to all the countries in the world combined.

Michael Hogan

To exploit living labour, capital must destroy dead labour which is still useful. Loving to suck warm young blood, it kills corpses.

Amadeo Bordiga

Theology starts with a crisis, the very crisis of reality itself. The crisis is the fact that you live, that you have a life to live. … The crisis is the very mystery of our existence and the yearning for there to be some kind of meaning to it.

Andrew Root

Had history been democratic in its ways, there would have been no farming and no industrial revolution. Both leaps into the future were occasioned by unbearably painful crises that made most people wish they could recoil into the past.

Yanis Varoufakis

I always thought a shipwreck was a well-organized affair, but I've learned the devil a lot in the last five minutes.

Erik Larson

For a kid in crisis, there is no "make it happen," only "survive today." Who am I to have the cojones to think my "critical questions" are the most important thing in this kid's life? I think of the times I was in crisis and failed to pay attention to the manila folders on my desk as an adult.

Dawn Casey-Rowe

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)

Peter Hochstein

Representatives of the churches should help guide people in resolving their crisis

Sunday Adelaja

In any love-story there are usually two stages or phases. There is the initial stage, where love is expressed by the giving of gifts, especially the gift of self. Then there comes a time when it is no longer enough to give gifts to the beloved, but one has to be ready to suffer for her or for him. Only then can it be seen whether the love is real. In the story of a vocation to consecrated virginity there are also usually two stages. There is the initial stage of the vocation, when, spurred on by grace and attracted by the ideal, one joyfully and enthusiastically says, "Yes, Lord, here I am!" Then comes the time of solitude of heart, of weariness, of crisis, when, in order to maintain that "Yes," one has to die

Raniero Cantalamessa

Aubrey Fitzwilliam knew that crisis was another word for opportunity.

Michael Pryor

There was always an opportunity in crisis, however desperate things seemed.

Gemma Malley

Deep within every crisis is an opportunity for something beautiful.

Kate McGahan

I no longer consider, is this chap a congenial companion? Rather, the question is, would I feel easy if he were in command of the platoon on my right?

James Carl Nelson

Walk away from every vicious act. Never look back.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The absence of conditions for self-realization in a country, region and community leads to stagnation, social and economic crisis

Sunday Adelaja

Enormity of the stakes became the new self-hypnosis.

Barbara W. Tuchman

No matter what, its always an opportunity.

Todd Stocker

For with any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation. There comes a certain point in such conditions when only three things are possible: first a perpetuation of Satanic pride, secondly tears, and third laughter.

G.K. Chesterton

I've got some bad news and I've got some good news. Nothing lasts forever.

Kate McGahan

When the madness came, he would be like a man staggering along the rim of the abyss – which was his rage – and when the edge gave way or he missed his step, he might clutch at anyone within reach and drag that person with him over the precipice.

Geraldine Brooks

Stigma's power lies in silence. The silence that persists when discussion and action should be taking place. The silence one imposes on another for speaking up on a taboo subject, branding them with a label until they are rendered mute or preferably unheard.

M.B. Dallocchio

We all were silent for a reason, maybe our hearts were talking to us, and it is a human behavior whenever someone is in a crisis or something great is happening, our hearts speaks to us. More and more, only that time because we are too obsessed to use our brains after every work every day that listening to heart becomes secondary

Shaikh Ashraf

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