Crisis Quotes - Page 10

• Women's struggle for equality worldwide is about more than equality between men and women. Our struggle is about reversing the trends of social, economic, political, and ecological crisis - a global nervous breakdown! Our struggle is about creating sustainable lives and attainable dreams.

  Bella Abzug

  Change, Dream, Struggle

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• Crisis can be an addiction as powerful as any other.

  Robin Morgan

  Powerful, Addiction

  Robin Morgan (2014). “Saturday's Child: A Memoir”, p.311, Open Road Media

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• to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Stress, Trouble, One Thing

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• It's been my experience, Charlotte, that the crisis never comes as or when you expect.

  Alice Duer Miller

  Unexpected, Charlotte

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• I do think that all economies need a sense of fiscal discipline especially over the midterm and if you are in the middle of a debt crisis you can't borrow your way out of a debt crisis. That's logically impossible.

  Stephen Harper

  Thinking, Discipline, Needs

  Interview with Peter Mansbridge, www.theglobeandmail.com. June 5, 2012.

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• I think the global community always has a ... has a responsibility to any humanitarian crisis. And I think it's in our best interest to address a humanitarian crisis on this scale because displacement can can lead to a lot of instability and aggression.

  Angelina Jolie

  Responsibility, Thinking, Community

  "CNN interviews Angelina Jolie". Interview with Arwa Damon, edition.cnn.com. February 7, 2008.

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• I've got three kids. I worry about them but the gospel freed me and freed my wife. We are not trying to make our kids think that we're super spiritual or we've got it all together. They see mom and dad being real people. What they hear dad talking about at home is not different from what they see from dad [at church]. That won't guarantee that they'll avoid the whole PK, MK thing. But we are hopefully not contributing to what normally produces that crisis, which is pretending.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Mom, Spiritual, Dad

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• 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, Plans

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• American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace.

  George W. Bush

  Goal, Generations, Management

  "Governor George W. Bush - 'A Distinctly American Internationalism'". Speech at Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Simi Valley, California, www.globalsecurity.org. November 19, 1999.

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• No single crisis shapes a generation; but a succession of events, each one bringing its shaping blows to bear.

  Han Suyin

  Blow, Events, Generations

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• A true friend is distinguished in the crisis of hazard and necessity; when the gallantry of his aid may show the worth of his soul and the loyalty of his heart.

  Quintus Ennius

  Friends, Loyalty, True Friend

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• If only life were one long crisis, everyone would be perfect.

  Angela Thirkell

  Long, Perfect, Would Be

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• Let us not forget, the financial crisis had its roots in the decision by Congress to embark on a course of social justice to get everyone that wanted a home into one, regardless of whether or not they could afford it.

  Ed Royce

  Home, Roots, Justice

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• This is by far the most serious crisis civilisation has ever faced.

  Al Gore

  Serious, Climate Change, Civilisation

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• When there is no longer a cyclone, there is no longer an eye. So the storms, crises and sufferings of life are a way of finding the eye.

  Bernadette Roberts

  Eye, Suffering, Storm

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• Death, is not an end, but a transition crisis. All the forms of decay are but masks of regeneration--the secret alembics of vitality.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Death, Secret, Decay

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• Error ... is less an intellectual problem than an existential one - a crisis not in what we know, but in who we are. We hear something of that identity crisis in the questions we ask ourselves in the aftemath of error: What was I thinking? How could I have done that?

  Kathryn Schulz

  Thinking, Errors, Intellectual

  Kathryn Schulz (2010). “Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• What turns a work crisis into a life crisis is the infusion of dread.

  Lynda Obst

  Work, Trouble, Infusion

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• Debt, weve learned, is the match that lights the fire of every crisis. Every crisis has its own set of villains - pick your favorite: bankers, regulators, central bankers, politicians, overzealous consumers, credit rating agencies - but all require one similar ingredient to create a true crisis: too much leverage.

  Andrew Ross Sorkin

  Fire, Agency, Light

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• American business would be run better today if there was more alignment between CEOs' interest and the company. For example, would the financial crisis of 2008 have occurred if the CEO of Lehman and Morgan Stanley and Goldman and Citibank had to take a very small percentage of every mortgage-backed security... or every loan they made?

  Aubrey McClendon

  Running, Example, Would Be

  "Chesapeake Energy: Everything You Need To Know About The ‘World’s Biggest Fracker’". stateimpact.npr.org. May 29, 2012.

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• One of the crises that we have to deal with is a crisis of law enforcement officials that are not physically capable enough to handle without taking out the gun.

  Niger Innis

  Gun, Law, Enforcement

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• 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

  Worst Times, Coming Out, Worst

  "An interview with best-selling author Andy Andrews". Interview with Carolyn Mason, www.tuscaloosanews.com. June 6, 2010.

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• The two things are synergistic, the health care crisis and the food crisis. Right now, to a large extent, the food industry's biggest product is patients for the health care industry and we have to break that.

  Michael Pollan

  Two, Care, Patient

  Source: indianapublicmedia.org

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• We're facing growing climate change, more floods, more droughts, more crisis on a planetary level, and the systems we put in place in the twentieth century are just not going to work. We've run out of stuff. Our big problems are going to be energy supplies and food supplies. This is not a right-left issue. It's a people issue, and it cuts across all our categories.

  Margaret Atwood

  Running, Cutting, Issues

  "Margaret Atwood Interview". Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. December 2, 2010.

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• Such a person needs meditation more than anyone else because they are headed for a crisis. If stress and anxiety are so great that you can't even imagine a calm clear mind, that indicates you are reaching your coping limits, and need to begin something like meditation just for the stress reduction benefits.

  Deepak Chopra

  Stress, Meditation, Anxiety

  "Questions About Meditation You Were Too Embarrassed To Ask, Explained By Deepak Chopra". Interview with Whitney Jefferson, www.buzzfeed.com. August 7, 2014.

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