Crisis famous quotes

Whenever you have a crisis, you're always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.
-- Abdallah II

#Advantage #Crisis #Situation

This is by far the most serious crisis civilisation has ever faced.
-- Al Gore

#Serious #Climate Change #Crisis

Don't accept that you are in crisis just because everyone says you are.
-- Alastair Campbell

#Accepting #Crisis

You don't know who's good or bad until you get to that crisis point.
-- Alex Jones

#Crisis

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.
-- Alexander Haig

#Tough #Crisis #Carter

It's been my experience, Charlotte, that the crisis never comes as or when you expect.
-- Alice Duer Miller

#Unexpected #Crisis #Charlotte

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
-- Andre Maurois

#Marriage #Conflict #Crisis

There is energy and power in a crisis.
-- Andrew Cuomo

#Energy #Crisis

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

#Financial #Modern #Crisis

Leaders flourish in times of crisis.
-- Andrew Wommack

#Leader #Crisis

Everyone has a worst time in their life. There's always a worse time. We are all either in a crisis, coming to one or coming out of one.
-- Andy Andrews

#Coming Out #Crisis #Worst

All people—all lives—are either in a crisis, coming out of a crisis, or headed for a crisis.
-- Andy Andrews

#People #Coming Out #Crisis

Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.
-- Andy Grove

#Good Company #Crisis #Great Company

It will not be possible to solve the current crisis with euro bonds.
-- Angela Merkel

#Currents #Crisis #Solve

The crisis of our time is essentially a religious crisis. It is a matter of life or death.
-- Arthur Adamov

#Religious #Matter #Crisis

The people who created the crisis will not be the ones that come up with a solution
-- Arundhati Roy

#People #Come Up #Crisis

to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
-- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#Stress #Trouble #Crisis

Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point
-- Barbara Mertz

#Lying #Men #Crisis

I've lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.
-- Bess Myerson

#Lifetime #Crisis

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

#Fruit #Crisis

If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I'm in crisis.
-- Bill Nighy

#Social #Crisis

I like those crisis moments - if you're on top of it and don't get pulled under by panic and fear, it's a very bonding thing.
-- Bill Pullman

#Panic #Moments #Crisis

I fear the financial crisis of 1998 may become the trade crisis of 1999.
-- Bill Vaughan

#May #Financial #Crisis

A crisis + time = humor.
-- Blaine Lee Pardoe

#Crisis

Life isn't like coursework, baby. It's one damn essay crisis after another.
-- Boris Johnson

#Baby #Crisis #Essays

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

#Crazy #Cruise #Crisis

Control thought-forms are the basis of our deepest moral crisis.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Moral #Form #Crisis

Materialism is an identity crisis.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Identity #Materialism #Crisis

When there is a crisis, that's when some are interested in getting out and that's when we are interested in getting in.
-- Carlos Slim

#Inspiration #Crisis

Everything about women is in perpetual crisis.
-- Carol Gilligan

#Crisis

What's success anyway? Is success about making the most money? No, money for the most part turns people into jerks.
-- Chris Sacca

#People #Jerk #Crisis

The only time you lose at something is when you don't learn from that experience.
-- Chuck Norris

#Crisis

... many a suicide might be averted if the person contemplating it could find the proper assistance when such a crisis impends.
-- Clifford Whittingham Beers

#Suicide #Might #Crisis

The crisis of the fisheries is similar to our economy. This is not one fishery failing, but the whole system.
-- Daniel Pauly

#Failing #Economy #Crisis

Come a crisis, we want other people.
-- Danny Boyle

#People #Want #Crisis

Something good comes out of every crisis.
-- Dave Pelzer

#Crisis

The onset of a crisis is usually triggered by a spectacular failure which shakes confidence in fictitious forms of capital.
-- David Harvey

#Form #Crisis #Shakes

He was about as useful in a crisis as a sheep.
-- Dorothy Eden

#Sarcastic #Sheep #Crisis

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

#Years #Liable #Crisis

My generation is having its midlife crisis in its 20s.
-- Edward Norton

#Generations #Midlife #Crisis

We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
-- Elizabeth Janeway

#Crisis

Knit on with confidence and hope through all crises.
-- Elizabeth Zimmermann

#Crisis

Those who have a lot of money in Greece invest in housing abroad. It's all immoral. The Greek crisis is structural, but also political.
-- Evangelos Venizelos

#Political #Greek #Crisis

We are near, very near, to an end to the eurozone crisis... The worst - in the sense of the fear of the eurozone breaking up - is over. But the best isn't there yet.
-- Francois Hollande

#Ends #Worst #Crisis

People help each other through a crisis by each supposing that the other can handle it better than he himself can.
-- Frank A. Clark

#People #Helping #Crisis

In other words we have marketed our way into this health crisis.
-- Frank Shorter

#Way #Crisis

What we do in the crisis always depends on whether we see the difficulties in the light of God, or God in the shadow of the difficulties.
-- G. Campbell Morgan

#Light #Shadow #Crisis

The great thing about baseball is that there's a crisis every day.
-- Gabe Paul

#Baseball #Crisis #Great Things

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

#Leader #Next #Crisis

Whenever there is a a financial crisis, it is always the banks that get hit.
-- Gordon Wu

#Financial #Crisis #Financial Crisis

Crises are challenges, not calamities.
-- Guy Verhofstadt

#Challenges #Calamity #Crisis

There is no crisis in this country that requires us to set up a crisis headquarters. Iran is currently in a good situation.
-- Hamid-Reza Assefi

#Country #Iran #Crisis

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

#Gold #Intensity #Crisis

Crises in themselves are highly educational.
-- Henry Arthur Jones

#Educational #Crisis

Stability leads to instability. The more stable things become and the longer things are stable, the more unstable they will be when the crisis hits.
-- Hyman Minsky

#Unstable #Stability #Crisis

I was going through a crisis once, so I went to therapy because I was so unbearable for myself.
-- Irrfan Khan

#Unbearable #Crisis #Therapy

There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
-- Isaac Asimov

#Happy Endings #Crisis

Million bucks won't see you through a major health crisis.
-- Jack Nicholson

#Bucks #Crisis

Managers can waste a lot of time at the outset of a crisis denying that something went wrong. Skip that step.
-- Jack Welch

#Waste #Steps #Crisis

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.
-- James A. Garfield

#Accomplished #Radical #Crisis

Ever heard of the phrase 'midlife crisis'?
-- Janet Maslin

#Phrases #Midlife #Crisis

Every little thing counts in a crisis.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru

#Littles #Little Things #Crisis

The mid-life crisis is just those times when you're not so into the things you were when you were younger.
-- Jay Kay

#Crisis #Mid Life Crisis

Men only act in a state of necessity and usually only recognise necessity in a situation of crisis.
-- Jean Monnet

#Men #States #Crisis

We have not reached the consensus that to eat is a basic human right. This is an ethical crisis. This is a crisis of faith.
-- Jean-Bertrand Aristide

#Ethical #Crisis #Consensus

An inordinate love of ritual can be harmful to the soul, unless, of course, in times of great crisis, when ritual can protect the soul from fracture.
-- Jeff VanderMeer

#Soul #Fracture #Crisis

I think the IMF helped to detonate the Indonesian crisis.
-- Jeffrey Sachs

#Thinking #Imf #Crisis

She needed food. Diets didn't count in a crisis.
-- Jenny Downham

#Crisis #Needed

It's true across the U.K. that those who had least to do with causing the economic crisis are carrying the heaviest burden. That's unacceptable.
-- Johann Lamont

#Economic #Burden #Crisis

You know, great powers don't get angry, great powers don't make decisions hastily in a crisis.
-- John R. Allen

#Decision #Crisis #Great Power

We've got to be judged by how we do in times of crisis
-- Johnnie Cochran

#Crisis #Judged

Crack-brained meddling by the authorities [can] aggravate an existing crisis.
-- Karl Marx

#Cracks #Authority #Crisis

If I'm going to an event I make sure I plan ahead so that I don't have a fashion crisis.
-- Kate Moss

#Fashion #Events #Crisis

The crisis of the 1930s and the populist reactions of that time must not be forgotten.
-- King Albert II

#Forgotten #Reactions #Crisis

A pope going through a faith crisis would be funny to see.
-- Kyle Dunnigan

#Would Be #Pope #Crisis

Capitalism is in crisis.
-- Lech Walesa

#Crisis #Capitalism

...capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling.
-- Leon Trotsky

#Doe #Exhaling #Crisis

If there's been a crisis in a market, you don't tend to have a new crisis in that market until the people who went through the last crisis aren't in the system anymore.
-- Marc Andreessen

#People #Lasts #Crisis

What I object to the current government intervention in so-called 'solving the crisis', they haven't solved anything. They've just postponed it.
-- Marc Faber

#Government #Currents #Crisis

Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.
-- Margaret Mitchell

#Crisis #Handkerchiefs #Rhett Butler

In times of crisis, it is of utmost importance to keep one's head.
-- Marie Antoinette

#Politics #Importance #Crisis

Within crisis, are the seeds of opportunity.
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Opportunity #Crisis

If we do not resolve the euro crisis, we will all pay the price. And if we do resolve it, we will all benefit, particularly German taxpayers and savers.
-- Mario Draghi

#Benefits #Pay #Crisis

There is definitely going to be another financial crisis around the corner because we haven’t solved any of the things that caused the previous crisis,
-- Mark Mobius

#Financial #Crisis #Financial Crisis

What we are seeing is there is a lot of anger out there about the failure of the government to resolve the immigration crisis.
-- Mark Potok

#Government #Immigration #Crisis

I've dealt with many crises in my life, but few will ever happen.
-- Mark Twain

#Reality #Crisis

An attribute of Rosa Hubermann, she was a good woman for a crisis.
-- Markus Zusak

#Good Woman #Attributes #Crisis

I've suffered from an identity crisis my entire life. It's why I went into acting.
-- Matthew Rhys

#Acting #Identity #Crisis

We do not have a crisis at Freddie Mac, and particularly Fannie Mae, under the outstanding leadership of Frank Raines.
-- Maxine Waters

#Outstanding #Macs #Crisis

I'm in crisis. I'm about to bump with a five-foot chino-chicano.
-- Megan McCafferty

#Feet #Bumps #Crisis

There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his life.
-- Michael Douglas

#Divorce #Force #Crisis

A readership crisis is really a leadership crisis.
-- Michael Hyatt

#Crisis #Readership

I say I have a midlife crisis every time I start and finish a record.
-- Mika

#Records #Midlife #Crisis

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

#Worry #Political #Crisis

The more insecure you are, the more prone you are to create crises.
-- Mikhail Saakashvili

#Insecure #Crisis

The crisis is the price for the capitalist system
-- Muhammad Yunus

#Crisis #Capitalist

It’s hard to find backbone.I never had crisis of identity. But I think many Americans have it.
-- Natalia Makarova

#Thinking #Identity #Crisis

Good in Crisis; Sucks at Normal.’ That about sums up my whole life, doesn’t it?
-- Neal Shusterman

#Normal #Crisis #Whole Life

When the history of our times is written, will we be remembered as the generation that turned our backs in a moment of global crisis or will it be recorded that we did the right thing?
-- Nelson Mandela

#Generations #Moments #Crisis

The EU is mired in deep structural crisis. Greece, Portugal and Ireland cannot survive inside the Euro.
-- Nigel Farage

#Portugal #Crisis #Euro