- 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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wouldn't go back on my old days, though; everybody needs to have their wild years. It's just a question of when and I'd rather have had them early than be doing it as a mid-life crisis type thing.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I saw the government really using the excuse of a weak economy and a financial crisis to create more government and to push onto the American entrepreneurial society more and more restraints and government activity.
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the crisis in Syria grows and the humanitarian tragedy becomes more clear, I appreciated Prime Minister Netanyahu's perspective on the changes and volatility in the region.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no one-size-fits-all solution to the challenges facing our cities or to the housing crisis, but the two issues need to be considered together. From an urban design and planning point of view, the well-connected open city is a powerful paradigm and an engine for integration and inclusivity.
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- Nov 07, 2020
President Bush is manufacturing a crisis by suggesting that Social Security is in imminent danger. It is not.
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- Nov 07, 2020
First National Bank laid off 1,000 people; where do they go? There are no jobs for them. So we are having serious economic problems in this country. We are in a real economic crisis.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country. It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the country. Its power is equal to that of any country in the world.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had the longest mid-life crisis ever.
- Democratic State
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a crisis on the Right. It sees the Jewish and democratic state as a democracy for the Jews. This is something I cannot countenance.
- Nov 07, 2020
The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness. 'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis.
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- Nov 07, 2020