- Government
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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
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's difficult when you're an appointee of any administration to publicly come out and say before a crisis occurs to say that we need to do X, Y and Z to avoid a crisis, because you probably wouldn't be around very long if you did that.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have an increasing sense that the most important crisis of our time is spiritual and that we need places where people can grow stronger in the spirit and be able to integrate the emotional struggles in their spiritual journeys.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Europe has, to put it mildly, been in a poor state since the transition to the 21st century. This is down to national issues, European missteps, and an economic and financial crisis that crashed down on us with enough force to dislodge the essential European idea.
- Challenges
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- Nov 07, 2020
Asean is obviously a very important association for us. Over the past 30 years Asean has made great strides in regional cooperation covering a number of areas, although recently it has been under strain because of the financial crisis and other challenges.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will work towards ensuring that farmers do not face any crisis and live up to the confidence they have reposed in me.
- Nov 07, 2020
At some point, I kind of went through this weird existential crisis in high school where I was just really depressed.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went through this kind of existential crisis. I was going through a breakup; I tore my ACL and my meniscus and had to have surgery, so I was out of school for a few months. Then my computer crashed, which was, like, my whole life. So when I came out of it, I started making music that, I think, was the most true to me.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
One day I woke up, had an early mid-life crisis, and decided it all had to change. I went and did Logan Murray's comedy course for 11 weeks and then started sneakily doing open-spot gigs, and that was it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're setting a game during the Cuban Missile Crisis, look through a library. find out what people were wearing, what other issues were in the news, how houses were furnished, what cars were being driven. Especially include things which now seem foreign.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
The motto of the old order in the City of London was, 'My word is my bond,' but the financial crisis revealed a culture quite alien to that heritage. The stewards of people's money were revealed to have been speculators with it.
- Nov 07, 2020