Crisis Quotes
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I don't believe the United States is going through a midlife crisis. The United States is going through an adolescent crisis.
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A crisis + time = humor.
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During a national crisis, we as a nation become a single community and no one should take advantage of a crisis.
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Scott Morrison has not got the climate crisis under control.
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... the photographer is a thief who chooses what he steals (which, at this stage of the crisis, is a luxury) and does not democratize the image, that is to say, the photographer selects the pictures, a privilege which ought to be granted to the person being photographed.
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You’re having a crisis of faith. Just be there with it.
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The close of my studies with a degree of a Dr. Ing. in 1929 coincided with the great economic crisis, and I was not able to find an academic position. I was therefore very grateful for a position in the newly created laboratory of G.J. Driza in Prague where rare chemicals were produced on small scale.
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I think that if we don't get these politicians to come together we face the most predictable economic crisis in history.
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The migrants are not a temporary crisis. The crisis is mounting.
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We are in a crisis today because the practical consensus between the left and the right, linking economic efficiency with social protection, has broken down.
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When you're right there in the crisi, you'll do anything to make yourself feel better, distract yourself from the misery, deny reality, not matter how stupid.
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I'm really good in a crisis, because I don't panic.
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Keep in mind that whenever you are in a crisis, you are in the midst of danger as well as opportunity.
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No single initiative by itself can solve the climate crisis.
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There is a crisis of leadership and governance in Africa, and we must face it.
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“With all of the talk about polling and demographics, I think too many people have lost touch with the human and moral crisis of deportations. Every day, roughly 1,000 people are deported because the Republican leadership of the House of Representatives is denying the majority of the US Congress a chance to vote on citizenship. I will be arrested today because the labor movement stands with the families tragically ripped apart by John Boehner and the House Republicans’ embrace of a broken immigration system.”
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I'd been reading Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year when the 1992 Los Angeles riots broke out and I began to see them both - L.A. and the London plague - as the same event. A time of crisis. A time when rich and poor get thrown together - and, suddenly one sees alternatives. I began to think about what happens when the containment of a presumed danger through the regimentation of space breaks down, such as when South-Central L.A. began to invade Beverly Hills.
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The politics of austerity, of higher taxes, decided by governments, have lengthened the economic crisis.
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Even before the economic crisis in Greece there was no structure for making films - no proper industry, and the structure didn't help filmmakers at all. So filmmakers had to help each other, and make very, very low-budget films. Now with the crisis, things got a bit worse, but filmmakers are still going to be making films. It didn't change that much.
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The DC 9/11: Time of Crisis film was hard to get the part; I had to audition three times. It was very serious and very sobering. We studied and tried to re-create all the stuff that we all saw that day.
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Leaders may recognize that they are not addressing the real problems, but they rationalize their actions with the argument that they must first politically survive in order to later address the hard problems and sacrifices. Of course, they usually don't ever actually get around to addressing the fundamental problems later, either because they don't make it through the initial crisis or because, even later, they are not willing to risk sacrificing their own position or "career" with needed measures that usually require tough sacrifices by the population.
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This is not a crisis of our making. But it is the crisis that we face and we must deal with it.
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Everyone has an identity crisis when they are 16 or 17 years old.
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The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.
