- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Crisis Quotes
Lines written from the middle of hard times.
The quotes collected here range from reflections on historic struggles for freedom to commentary on financial downturns and the pressures facing young people today. Together they show a crisis as both a breaking point and, sometimes, a starting point. See also Danger for a related mood.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unlike other essential goods, like clothing, shelter, or food, we take cheap or even free water for granted. It often takes a crisis, such as a major drought or flood, to spur investment and policy reforms in improving water security.
- Global Warming
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- Nov 07, 2020
A more robust approach to global warming is needed if we are to avoid catastrophe. Unlike the recent financial crisis, there is no bailout option for the earth's climate.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at the practice of 'crisis management,' and maybe squint at it a little, you can make out in the corners of your vision the ghosts or the vestiges of a much older, but still thoroughly American, form of public life, one centered not on public opinion but on religion.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only big life challenge I think I'm worried about is a mid-life crisis because I've done so little. I think if people who've lived normal lives have mid-life crises and buy motorbikes, what is a man who's done nothing?
- Causing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Putting somebody else in crisis mode and causing them to make quicker decisions, urgent decisions, rather than prolonged, more logical decisions can be very advantageous. So, to be successful in business, you have to understand the power of confrontation and how to use it correctly.
- Handed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Barack Obama took office in the middle of a massive financial crisis. He was handed a bunch of messes all around the world and at home.
- Nov 07, 2020
Americans' perceptions of Africa remain rooted in troubling stereotypes of helplessness and perpetual crisis.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, great powers don't get angry, great powers don't make decisions hastily in a crisis.
- Insurance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mortgage insurance stocks remained depressed through the end of 2012 amid lingering uncertainty as to whether they had sufficient capital to absorb losses on delinquent loans originated before the crisis. However, as house prices began to recover, losses started to decline.
- Evidently
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- Nov 07, 2020
I bet taxpayers remember providing more than $812 billion to Citigroup and Bank of America, two Wall Street banks, in 2009 to bail them out during the 2008 financial crisis. Taxpayers remember that generosity; big banks evidently don't.
- Identity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think The Czars had an identity crisis, as we were five guys pulling in different musical directions.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The jobs crisis has reached a boiling point, which is why we see Occupy Wall Street protestors crying out for an America that lets all of us reach for the American Dream again - a dream that says if you work hard and play by the rules, you can have a good life and retire with dignity.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020