Crisis Quotes - Page 24

• There's sort of a theory that's going around in the China-watching community about a perfect storm coming up with the 2008 Olympics, a U.S. election and a Taiwanese election, some sort of mutually reinforcing explosion and crisis.

  Bonnie Blair

  Perfect, Community, Storm

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• Our molting season, like that of the fouls, must be a crisis in our lives.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Our Lives, Seasons

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• We stand today at a unique and extraordinary moment. The crisis in the Persian Gulf , as grave as it is, also offers a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective - a new world order - can emerge: a new era - freer from the threat of terror, stronger in the pursuit of justice, and more secure in the quest for peace. An era in which the nations of the world, East and West, North and South, can prosper and live in harmony.

  George H. W. Bush

  Moving, Unique, Opportunity

  George H. W. Bush, Brent Scowcroft (2011). “A World Transformed”, p.370, Vintage

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• This crisis of long-term unemployment is having a profoundly damaging impact on the lives of those bearing the brunt of it. We know this thanks to a series of careful studies of the problem conducted in the depths of the 1930s Great Depression.

  Bob Ehrlich

  Impact, Long, Depth

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• The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.

  Barry Commoner

  Environmental, Signals, Catastrophe

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• Never waste a good crisis.

  Hillary Clinton

  Waste

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• We need to expand Social Security to prevent the looming retirement crisis, and we can do it simply by asking billionaires to pay their fair share.

  Robert Reich

  Retirement, Needs, Asking

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• Food has always been my friend. When I wanted to feel better or had a crisis in my life, I opened the icebox.

  Marlon Brando

  Feel Better, Feels, Wanted

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• If a man brings a good mind to what he reads he may become, as it were, the spiritual descendant to some extent of great men, and this link, this spiritual hereditary tie, may help to just kick the beam in the right direction at a vital crisis; or may keep him from drifting through the long slack times when, so to speak, we are only fielding and no balls are coming our way.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Spiritual, Men, Ties

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 440+ Short Stories, Complete Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings (Kim, The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Land and Sea Tales, Captain Courageous…)”, p.7206, e-artnow

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• We are spending hundreds of billions of dollars maintaining 5,000 nuclear weapons. I think we need major reform in the military, making it more cost effective, but also focusing on the real crisis that faces America.

  Bernie Sanders

  Military, Real, Thinking

  Bernie Sanders during Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, www.cbsnews.com. November 14, 2015.

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• So often times we see these films that erode human dignity...films that deny the transcendent moral order of the moral universe. They're always eroding natural affections for families. Fathers betray their commitments, children's are always portrayed as brats and disobedient, marriages are always in crisis and struggle. I think (for) most of us, that's not the lives we live. We're always being challenged, we always have challenges but we love our families, we love our spouse, we love our children.

  Jason Jones

  Children, Father, Struggle

  "Jason Jones launches Movie to Movement to move Hollywood toward positive storytelling". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. October 2011.

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• I love the way business works, when there's a crisis or a scandal, there is blood on the floor. Somebody pays, people are held accountable, that's just not politics.

  Suzy Welch

  Blood, People, Pay

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I have been fortunate to work in places where people have a passion for their work. At HHS the passion sort of exceeds passion - it's a vocation.... I obviously knew that there were certainly some challenges that I would be taking on both with the work and the politics. [But] I probably did not have the right expectation level with regard to the number and volume of crises that would occur.

  Sylvia Mathews Burwell

  Passion, Numbers, People

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I had a very marginal understanding of what faith in God was growing up because, although I went to a Catholic school, without having parents who really were actively involved in faith there was no reinforcement of it. So, as a result of that I guess I just kind of thought that God was somebody that you put in a box and you put Him on a shelf and you called on him when you had crises.

  Patricia Mauceri

  Growing Up, School, Parent

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• People are really in despair today in Greece. They are afraid of tomorrow. They suffer. We have 1.2 million people without jobs. So you understand that this crisis cannot leave the political system untouched. Of course we have to change but we have to change in the right way.

  Dora Bakoyannis

  Jobs, People, Political

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• We are neck and neck but there will be a very - it will be a very tough campaign in the last ten days. We must be very open and sincere with the Greek people. They should know what they could really expect. I think all of these old political logic is dead. We have to be honest, open and determined to get the Greeks out of this crisis.

  Dora Bakoyannis

  Thinking, People, Political

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• It is problems that we faced for 30 years and we had to solve them in a couple of years only and the solution really pushed us and the economy couldn't handle it. We had the greatest depression. It wasn't easy and I think we expected the results. But the other thing is we have to try to create the plan B and get us out of this crisis as soon as possible.

  Eva Kaili

  Couple, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• My personal position is we have to look beyond the parties now and find a realistic solution to get us out of this crisis which would be to create growth and this isn't something that is going to happen by populism.

  Eva Kaili

  Party, Growth, Would Be

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• Broke up created a crisis...in every circumstance because a family gets blown apart. We all know what that does to a child. We all know what that does to a woman's identity. But, at the same time, it caused me to start to reevaluate all those things weren't able to stay intact - all the people's attention, all the success, the financial security. It didn't have any value.

  Patricia Mauceri

  Children, People, Identity

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Well, you know, it's been in the back of my mind. I just cannot get it out of it. I'm miserable chasing money. I'm 30 years old going through a mid-life crisis!" I just couldn't shut (it) off.

  Drew Waters

  Years, Mind, Miserable

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• There is a crisis of religious authority world wide, and there are many reasons. One is colonialism.

  Mark Durie

  Religious, Colonialism, World

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• Speaking as a Muslim in the West, I see a crisis in religious authority, we need Indigenous Muslim scholarship understanding the Western way of life and is able to use the understanding, using legitimate Islamic sources to bring more scholarship to our way of life in the west. There's a need for that.

  Mark Durie

  Religious, Islamic, Understanding

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• Europe has been in the grip of a very serious economic crisis for few years, so there have been major cuts to anti-terrorist funding, to intelligence funding. So we do not have the manpower to carry on this kind of monitoring.

  Loretta Napoleoni

  Cutting, Years, Europe

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• I know my fate. One day my name will be tied to the memory of something monstrous - a crisis without equal on earth.... I am no man, I am dynamite!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Memories, Fate, Men

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• It is well for us if we have learned to listen to the sweet persuasion of the Beatitudes, but there are crises in all lives which require also the emphatic "Thou shalt not" of the decalogue which the founders wrote on the gateposts of their commonwealth.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Sweet, Persuasion, Founders

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Old Portraits, Modern Sketches, Personal Sketches and Tributes Complete, Volume VI., the Works of Whittier”, p.405, tredition

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