- Nature
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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
- Embedded
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- Nov 07, 2020
Health care confronts us with a difficult test. We have never corrected failure in something so deeply embedded in people's lives and in the economy without the pressure of an outright crisis.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Crisis for others is a source of despair. For me, it's an opportunity to bring reform.
- Economic Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
The years of the economic depression have been years of political reaction, and that is why the economic crisis has generated a world peace crisis.
- Leave
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- Nov 07, 2020
The lesson of the Cuban Missile Crisis is plain: Strength prevents war; weakness invites it. We need a commander-in-chief who understands that - and who won't leave us facing a foe who thinks he doesn't.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get asked all the time how much sleep I get. That's what happens when you write a book called 'The Sleep Revolution,' travel around the world talking about it, and found a company committed to ending our global burnout crisis.
- Challenges
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- Nov 07, 2020
The unfolding migratory crisis has become one of the most acute challenges facing the international community. Millions of lives are at stake. All of us have a responsibility to act. Collectively, we need to find solutions.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is never a humanitarian solution for a humanitarian crisis. The solutions for the humanitarian crisis are always political ones.
- Clue
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- Nov 07, 2020
The temptation in any approaching crisis or conflict is, because people haven't got a clue what lies ahead, they're always searching into the past for some sort of pattern ... to galvanise the nation or their supporters and put themselves on a pedestal to sound Churchillian or Rooseveltian.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is this compulsion to look backwards at a time of crisis because one's got no idea of what lies ahead. There is a notion of security that somehow it must resemble the past. It's never going to. Just because we muddled through in the past doesn't mean we can automatically muddle through in the future.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
As Donald Trump and his cabinet now demonstrate, the skills encouraged in men by their biologies and the tools that boys master in the playground have not equipped them to deal with the unprecedented global crisis we are now facing.
- Dirty
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the morning of January 17, 1966, a real-life dirty bomb crisis occurred over Palomares, Spain. A Strategic Air Command bomber flying with four armed hydrogen Bombs - with yields between 70 kilotons and 1.45 megatons - collided midair with a refueling tanker over the Spanish countryside.
- Furthest
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- Nov 07, 2020
Becoming an entrepreneur was the furthest thing from my mind. I actually had an identity crisis when I realized I had become one.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The challenge in a startup is you hit a lot of turbulence, and you want people who understand that it's just turbulence and not a crisis.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020