Crisis Quotes - Page 34

• God doesn't want your crises-mode promises.

  Darrin Patrick

  Promise, Want

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• The miraculous power of the healing we create through crisis can be as stunning as looking at the sun.

  Laura Day

  Healing, Sun, Stunning

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• I have more appreciation for why the Bible avoids fuzzy psychologisms and says simply to the stealer, "Steal no more," and to the tempted, "Flee temptation." The Bible challenges us to look upward, not inward, for counsel at moments of crisis.

  Philip Yancey

  Appreciation, Temptation, Challenges

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• The 'idea' for the poem, which may come as an image thrown against memory, as a sound of words that sets off a traveling of sound and meaning, as a curve of emotion (a form) plotted by certain crises of events or image or sound, or as a title which evokes a sense of inner relations; this is the first 'surfacing' of the poem. Then a period of stillness may follow.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Memories, Ideas, Curves

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• In a crisis, stocks of financial companies are great investments, because the tide is bound to turn. Massive losses on bad loans and soured investments are irrelevant to value; improving trends and future prospects are what matter, regardless of whether profits will have to be used to cover loan losses and equity shortfalls for years to come.

  Seth Klarman

  Loss, What Matters, Years

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• Perhaps more than anything else, failure to recognize the precariousness and fickleness of confidence - especially in cases in which large short-term debts need to be rolled over continuously - is the key factor that gives rise to the this-time-is-different syndrome. Highly indebted governments, banks, or corporations can seem to be merrily rolling along for an extended period, when bang! - confidence collapses, lenders disappear, and a crisis hits.

  Carmen Reinhart

  Keys, Government, Giving

  "This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly". Book by Carmen M. Reinhart, Kenneth S. Rogoff, 2009.

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• [D]ebt increases that didn't arise either from war or from extraordinary financial crisis are entirely associated with hard-line conservative governments.

  Paul Krugman

  War, Government, Lines

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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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• Here in the United States, we've seen the failure of mass programs of redistribution and the fiscal crises to which they give rise. And yet many continue to defend and promote them.

  Robert Sirico

  Giving, United States, Program

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• History has shown more than once that when people surrender totalitarian powers to their rulers, they are inevitably exercised in the next big crisis. And let's not forget here that the next president who wields this power and who will be in charge of military might well be Hillary Clinton.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  Military, People, President

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• The housing and financial crisis could not have occurred in the absence of government housing and monetary policies.

  Sheldon Richman

  Government, Financial, Absence

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• President Obama has a good sense not just of the economic requisites for financial crisis firefighting but also how you build political support for moving forward on reforming the financial system, making sure that the banks are carrying enough capital.

  Lael Brainard

  Moving, Support, Political

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• For Al Gore and Paul Ehrlich and Co., whatever the problem, the solution is always the same. Whether it's global cooling, global warming, or overpopulation, we need bigger government, more regulation, higher taxes, and a massive transfer of power from the citizens to some unelected self-perpetuating crisis lobby.

  Mark Steyn

  Government, Self, Needs

  Mark Steyn (2006). “America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It”, p.29, Regnery Publishing

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• Global warming activists claim a serious public concern presently exists and the overwhelming majority of scientists agrees humans are creating a global warming crisis. The survey of AMS meteorologists, however, shows no such overwhelming majority exists. Indeed, to the extent we can assign a majority scientific opinion to whether all the necessary components of a global warming crisis exist, the AMS survey shows the majority does not agree humans are creating a global warming crisis.

  James Taylor

  Creating, Majority, Doe

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• The self divided is precisely where the self is authentically located. . . We all have identity crises because a single identity is a delusion of the monotheistic mind. . . Authenticity is in the illusion, playing it, seeing through it from within as we play it, like an actor who sees through his mask and can only see in this way.

  James Hillman

  Self, Play, Mind

  James Hillman (1983). “Healing fiction”

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• Time and time again, the obstinate refusal of the tsarist regime to concede reforms turned what should have been a political problem into a revolutionary crisis... the tsarist regime's downfall was not inevitable; but its own stupidity made it so.

  Orlando Figes

  Should Have, Stupidity, Political

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• I am an optimist by nature and believe strongly that technology can be brought to bear to create alternatives, even in crisis situations.

  Vinton Cerf

  Believe, Technology, Alternatives

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Throughout history government has seldom hesitated from robbing its citizens in a crisis.

  James Cook

  Government, Citizens, Robbing

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• Human beings are often at their best when responding to immediate crises - car accidents, house fires, hurricanes. We are less effective in the face of enormous but slow-moving crises such as the loss of biodiversity or climate change.

  David Suzuki

  Moving, Loss, Fire

  David Suzuki, Holly Dressel (2009). “From Naked Ape to Superspecies: Humanity and the Global Eco-Crisis”, p.328, Greystone Books Ltd

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• I firmly believe that contemporary spiritual use of entheogenic drugs is one of humankind's brightest hopes for overcoming the ecological crisis from which we threaten the biosphere and jeopardize our own survival, for Homo sapiens is close to the head of the list of endangered species.

  Jonathan Ott

  Spiritual, Believe, Drug

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• In the end, we must restore a balance within ourselves between who we are and what we are doing. Each of us must take a greater personal responsibility for this deteriorating global environment; each of us must take a hard look at the habits of mind and action that reflect - and have led to - this grave crisis.

  Al Gore

  Responsibility, Mind, Balance

  Al Gore (2013). “Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose”, p.12, Routledge

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• [T]he regime of diversions, surrogates, and tranquilizers that pass for today's 'distractions' and 'amusements' does not yet allow the modern woman to foresee the crisis that awaits her when she recognizes how meaningless are those male occupations for which she has fought, when the illusions and the euphoria of her conquests vanish, and when she realizes that, given the climate of dissolution, family and children can no longer give her a sense of satisfaction in life.

  Julius Evola

  Children, Satisfaction In Life, Giving

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• Poverty feeds into the clean-water crisis, which contributes to hunger, and so on. There's undeniable interconnectivity among these issues. Just one of these problems can be deadly on its own, but in the most disadvantaged areas there is a perfect storm of problems. And it takes its greatest toll on children.

  Matt Damon

  Children, Issues, Perfect

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• I would like the refugee crisis to become a new beginning in the Turkish-European relationship. But it would be very problematic if, during this process, human rights were forgotten. Democracy needs to be the priority.

  Elif Safak

  New Beginnings, Refugee Crisis, Rights

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In a crisis, my family puts aside all its petty differences and hatreds... Because a crisis, is a perfect opportunity to create *new* petty differences and hatreds! My dad's from that era when you lived to 50, your heart exploded and that was that. You know when you cook bacon and you pour the grease into the can? My dad's the can!

  Christopher Titus

  Dad, Heart, Opportunity

  "Titus", www.imdb.com. 2000-2002.

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