Crisis Quotes - Page 25

• On my fortieth birthday, rather than merely bore my friends by having anything as mundane as a midlife crisis I decided it might be more interesting to actually terrify them by going completely mad and declaring myself to be a magician.

  Alan Moore

  Mad, Interesting, Midlife

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• The symbol in Chinese for crisis is made up of two ideographs: one means danger, the other means opportunity. This symbol is a reminder that we can choose to turn a crisis into an opportunity or into a negative experience.

  Virginia Satir

  Mean, Opportunity, Negative Experiences

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• Character cannot be summoned at the moment of crisis if it has been squandered by years of compromise and rationalization. The only testing ground for the heroic is the mundane. The only preparation for that one profound decision which can change a life, or even a nation, is those hundreds of half-conscious, self defining, seemingly insignificant decisions made in private. Habit is the daily battleground of character.

  Dan Coats

  Character, Self, Years

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• As grateful as we are for all the work the community health centers do, it is also important that we recognize that they cannot solve the health care crisis facing our Nation by themselves.

  Jan Schakowsky

  Grateful, Community, Important

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• I sat in the gradually chilling room, thinking of my whole past the way a drowning man is supposed to, and it seemed part of the present, part of the gray cold and the beggar woman without a face and the moulting birds frozen to their own filth in the Orangerie. I know now I was in the throes of some small glandular crisis, a sublimated bilious attack, a flick from the whip of melancholia, but then it was terrifying...nameless...

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Past, Men, Thinking

  M. F. K. Fisher, Joan Reardon (2004). “The Art of Eating”, p.488, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When we cling, often forever, to our old patterns of thinking and behaving, we fall to negotiate any crisis, to truly grow up, and to experience the joyful sense of rebirth that accompanies the successful transition into greater maturity.

  M. Scott Peck

  Growing Up, Fall, Successful

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• The United States is like the Titanic, and I'm here with the lifeboat trying to get people to leave the ship... I see a real financial crisis coming for the United States.

  Peter Schiff

  Real, People, Trying

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• The problems that stand in the way are not of economical or technological nature. The deepest sources of the global crisis lie inside the human personality and reflect the level of consciousness evolution of our species.

  Stanislav Grof

  Lying, Personality, Levels

  Stanislav Grof (1998). “The Cosmic Game: Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness”, p.219, SUNY Press

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• Perhaps peace is not, after all, something you work for, or 'fight for.' It is indeed 'fighting for peace' that starts all the wars. What, after all, are the pretexts of all these Cold War crises, but 'fighting for peace?' Peace is something you have or do not have. If you are yourself at peace, then there is at least some peace in the world. Then share your peace with everyone, and everyone will be at peace.

  Thomas Merton

  War, Fighting, World

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• I tend to do something for two years then move on to something new. Yoga, then biking, then weight lifting, then back to biking. The moment it feels like a rut, I switch and search for a new love. It's like having a midlife crisis, but without the new wife or cheesy BMW.

  Brad Meltzer

  Moving, Yoga, Two

  "Workouts inspire novelist: 'No better place to plot the death of a character'". Interview with David Raterman, www.sun-sentinel.com. February 11, 2013.

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• We need a new way of doing business to get out of the present crisis ... Absolute greed has come close to bankrupting the world. Thanks to the crisis that certain businesses have dumped on everyone a lot of people are going to suffer on a global scale. All of us must learn. It is all the more important that those business leaders that are left standing try to be a force for good.

  Richard Branson

  People, Greed, Leader

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• I have always believed that the only way to cope with a cash crisis is not to contract but to try to expand out of it.

  Richard Branson

  Trying, Cash, Way

  Richard Branson (1999). “Losing my virginity: how I've survived, had fun, and made a fortune doing business my way”, Crown Business

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• Courage taught me no matter how bad a crisis gets… any sound investment will eventually pay off.

  Carlos Slim

  Sound, Pay, Matter

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• Why is Jewish owned press so consistently anti-Israel in every crisis?

  Rupert Murdoch

  Israel, Presses, Consistently

  Twitter post from Nov 18, 2012

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• I would like to tell our American, British and Spanish friends that the Iraqi crisis is not a problem between the United States and France, but between those who want to move forward in the logic of war and the international community.

  Dominique de Villepin

  Friends, War, Moving

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• The crisis in Ukraine is all the European Union's fault. Its leaders negotiated a trade deal with Ukraine, which essentially blackmailed the country to choose between Europe and Russia.

  Marine Le Pen

  Country, Russia, Ukraine

  "​Crisis in Ukraine is ‘all EU’s fault’ – France’s Marine Le Pen". www.rt.com. September 6, 2014.

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• ...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, Correlation

  Hans F. Sennholz (1979). “Age of inflation”

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• Women must see that there can be no liberation for them and no solution to the ecological crisis within a society whose fundamental model of relationships continues to be one of domination. They must unite the demands of the women's movement with those of the ecological movement to envision a radical reshaping of the basic socioeconomic relations and the underlying values of this [modern industrial] society.

  Rosemary Radford Ruether

  Fundamentals, Movement, Demand

  Rosemary Skinner Keller, Rosemary Radford Ruether, Marie Cantlon (2006). “Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America: Women in North American Catholicism”, p.1111, Indiana University Press

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• The U.S., France, Germany and Canada have all responded to the financial crisis by boosting rather than cutting their science funding. The U.K. has not.

  Martin Rees

  Cutting, Germany, Canada

  "How science became cool" by Martin Reese, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2010.

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• Given all the money printing that is going on globally - and not just in the US - and given that the total credit as a percent of the advanced economies is now 30% higher than in 2007 before the crisis hit, I think that gold is a good insurance.

  Marc Faber

  Thinking, Gold, Credit

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• The crisis in Europe has affected the US economy by acting as a drag on our exports, weighing on business and consumer confidence and pressuring US financial markets and institutions.

  Ben Bernanke

  Europe, Acting, Financial

  "China digs its heels in as Europe crisis deepens". "The World Today" with Emily Bourke, www.abc.net.au. June 8, 2012.

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• Rule number one: Why is it that the one time a cute guy talks to you, you have a friend who's in crisis?

  Candace Bushnell

  Cute, Numbers, Guy

  Candace Bushnell (2010). “The Carrie Diaries (The Carrie Diaries, Book 1)”, p.19, HarperCollins UK

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• There was a clarity to the Nineties. It was pre-9/11, before that anxiety kicked in that exists right now about the financial crisis or terrorism. We were all just going to move forward into the millennium and everything was always going to get better. Then, whoops, that didn't happen.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Moving, Anxiety, Get Better

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• Sci-Fi is the genre that explored both possibilities: the end of our existential crisis and the end of our existence. My novel, The 5th Wave, explores the latter scenario, because, frankly, I believe it represents the likeliest outcome of an extraterrestrial encounter. In short, if they're out there, we better hope they never find us.

  Rick Yancey

  Believe, Encounters, Outcomes

  "5 Most Shocking Moments in Sci-Fi Movies" by Rick Yancey, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2013.

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• Science fiction offers an intensely bracing angle of view for writers to adopt, especially in a time of constant innovation and crisis, and it is a scandal that in 1999 so many writers have written it and continue to write it in obscurity.

  John Clute

  Writing, Views, Innovation

  "In defense of science fiction" by John Clute, www.cnn.com. May 26, 1999.

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