Top 100 Quotes About Times Of Crisis
#1. In times of crisis human beings don't have it in them to be rational.
Larry McMurtry
#2. I'm a well-honed machine in times of crisis.
Andy Weir
#3. The court's job is to uphold the Constitution and you don't call that off in times of crisis. Would the framers have allowed this practice?
Antonin Scalia
#4. The United States has never been afraid of a challenge. In times of crisis, it is American innovation and ingenuity that has forged the path to progress and prosperity.
Diana DeGette
#5. Obama prefers to look forward, not back, as he has stated. So at least during his tenure, there will be no reliable record compiled as a cautionary tale for lawmakers and presidents in future times of crisis. This is the historical Obama.
David K. Shipler
#6. It is in times of crisis that good leaders emerge.
Rudy Giuliani
#7. In times of crisis, it is of utmost importance to keep one's head.
Marie Antoinette
#8. In times of crisis, different people react in different ways. Some might try to escape. Others might attempt to batten down the hatches and ride out the storm in a safe haven.
Cullen Bunn
#9. In times of crisis, it is of the utmost importance that one does not lose her head.
Marie Antoinette
Robert Asprin
#11. Why did everyone send casseroles in times of crisis? Why didn't anyone ever send brownies and Jack Daniel's?
Jaye Wells
#12. Often times of crisis are times of discovery, periods when we cannot maintain our old ways of doing things and enter into a steep learning curve. Sometimes it takes a crisis to initiate growth.
Rachel Naomi Remen
#14. You see in times of crisis that extremist forces, populist forces, have a better ground to oversimplify things and to manipulate feelings. Feelings of fear.
Jose Manuel Barroso
#15. The greatest presidents have been those who demonstrated astute judgment in times of crisis - often despite the advice they were getting.
Robert Dallek
#16. Good people turn to love, courage and kindness in times of crisis, not hate, fear and cruelty.
Laurence Overmire
#17. In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.
Viktor E. Frankl
#18. Symbol systems cannot simply be rejected; they must be replaced. Where there is no replacement, the mind will revert to familiar structures at times of crisis, bafflement, or defeat.
Carol P. Christ
#19. One or two individuals in times of crisis turn into Heroes, a handful into Villains, the rest into Fools.
Marisha Pessl
#20. The tea seemed to be making things better. It was a hot drink made of leaves, used in times of crisis as a means of restoring normality.
Matt Haig
#21. I think in times of crisis it's the artists' responsibility to dig a little deeper.
Bruce Pavitt
#22. Women only cut their hair in times of crisis ... It's somethin' a woman always has the power to do, even when she loses control over everything else. Cuttin' hair is a cry for help.
Bella Pollen
#24. From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
Barbara Kingsolver
#25. The man who does not learn to wait upon the Lord and have his thoughts molded by Him will never possess that steady purpose and calm trust, which is essential to the exercise of wise influence upon others, in times of crisis and difficulty.
Dixon Edward Hoste
#26. [Barack] Obama has a grasp of language and the presentation of language, particularly in times of crisis. And he did this over the race issue. He did this early on in his administration, when the country was polarized. That was unprecedented.
Frank Luntz
#27. In a normal time, I don't think economic policy makes a large difference one way or another. But in times of crisis it makes all the difference in the world.
Mark Zandi
#28. We're Americans - in times of crisis, we step up.
Keith Ellison
#29. In times of crisis not one should be counted special. Everyone was human therefore equal to the same misery and misfortune and good luck as everyone else. What happened to the whole 'we gotta stick together' motto? When hard times came-a-knocking, people baled on good sense and decency.
Shelly Crane
#30. The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in times of crisis.
Thurgood Marshall
#31. The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their silence at times of crisis.
Dan Brown
#32. We've got to be judged by how we do in times of crisis.
Johnnie Cochran
#33. How often have we ourselves said or have heard others exclaim in times of crisis or trouble, 'I just don't know where to turn'? If we will just use it, there is a gift available to all of us-the gift of looking to God for direction. Here is an avenue of strength, comfort, and guidance.
Marvin J. Ashton
#34. David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph.
Tom Brokaw
#35. Books, like all art, breed in us desire. In times of crisis and fear and misrepresentation we need desire, or else we shut down and hide out in our houses, succumbing to infotainment and the ease of an available latte, turning off our brains and emotions. Books breed desire.
Lidia Yuknavitch
#36. Such times of crisis have inevitably brought 'music of conscience' to the fore and I expect we will be hearing more and more of it in the immediate future. When people feel empowered to come together and raise their voices, also will mean raising their voices in song as well.
Peter Yarrow
#37. In times of crisis, we must all decide again and again whom we love.
Frank O'Hara
#38. It's a fact of our culture that the loudest mouths get the most airplay, and the loudmouths are saying that in times of crisis it's treasonous to question our leaders.
Barbara Kingsolver
#39. Any citizen should be willing to give all that he has to give his country in work or sacrifice in times of crisis.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#40. This is the permanent tension that lies at the heart of a capitalist democracy and is exacerbated in times of crisis. In order to ensure the survival of the richest, it is democracy that has to be heavily regulated rather than capitalism.
Tariq Ali
#41. Every single day, I get letters - very moving, overwhelming letters - testifying how much my books have meant to people in times of crisis in their lives, when they were very ill, say. If I ever doubted that writing could play an important part in people's lives, I don't doubt that now.
Alexander McCall Smith
#42. I have a theory that women are generally given space and appointed to jobs when the situation is tough. I've observed that in many instances. In times of crisis, women eventually are called upon to sort out the mess, face the difficult issues and be completely focused on restoring the situation.
Christine Lagarde
#43. Charlie Asher: I accidently shagged a monk last night.
Minty Fresh: Sometimes, in times of crisis, that shit cannot be avoided.
Christopher Moore
#44. In times of crisis people are generally blind to everything outside their immediate necessities.
Albert Einstein
#45. in times of crisis a person's face is somehow stripped back to something essential and universally human: all those labels like "beautiful," "sexy," "plain" became irrelevant.
Liane Moriarty
#46. This is the United States of America. It means we respond to our fellow Americans in times of crisis and emergency and disaster.
Bob Menendez
#47. Only those leaders who act boldly in times of crisis and change are willingly followed.
James M. Kouzes
#48. You can't relate to a superhero, to a superman, but you can identify with a real man who in times of crisis draws forth some extraordinary quality from within himself and triumphs but only after a struggle.
John F. Kennedy
#49. In times of crisis, the incumbent suffers. And the bigger the crisis, the greater the punishment inflicted on those in power unless they do something that makes a change.
Tariq Ali
#50. And what do you do in times of crisis, Gin?" Grayson asked. I stared at him. "I survive.
Jennifer Estep
#51. The mid-life crisis is just those times when you're not so into the things you were when you were younger.
Jay Kay
#52. An inordinate love of ritual can be harmful to the soul, unless, of course, in times of great crisis, when ritual can protect the soul from fracture.
Jeff VanderMeer
#53. When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.
Ernest Hemingway,
#54. The world is heading for another major crisis that is being called, even by the secular world, Armageddon.
Billy Graham
#55. It is precisely this collision of immoral power with powerless morality which constitutes the major crisis of our times.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#56. It seems like someone is using wars and our economic crisis to spread distrust and rancor among the population. In times like these, those are dangerous feelings to spread around.
Riccardo Bruni
#57. It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a facile word or plausible pretext is specially wanted to get me out of painful embarrassment.
Charlotte Bronte
#58. Poverty is not only about income poverty, it is about the deprivation of economic and social rights, insecurity, discrimination, exclusion and powerlessness. That is why human rights must not be ignored but given even greater prominence in times of economic crisis.
Irene Khan
#59. In times of happiness, no point in shaking things up.
But in a time of crisis, the safest thing is change.
Seneca.
#60. Human crises have a way of happening at inconvenient times.
Amelia Earhart
#61. You never have real changes unless you have a time of crisis.
Milton Friedman
#62. The only way to cry your eyes out and laugh your ass off at the same time is to have your mom or girlfriends present. Without them, the laughing part wouldn't be nearly as fun.
Shannon L. Alder
#63. If we are to depend on prayer during tough times, we should be people of prayer before the crisis hits.
Billy Graham
#64. The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
Dante Alighieri
#65. Who you truly are as a person is best revealed by who you are during times of conflict and crisis.
Karen Salmansohn
#66. If you had the most prestige and you were the network that everybody turned to in times of a crisis, that that was the most important position, in the news business, to hold.
Ted Turner
#67. The easiest time to be faithful is during a time of crisis. The hardest time for faith is when all is well.
George W. Bush
#68. Here's something about Mom: she's bad with annoyances, but great in a crisis. If a waiter doesn't refill her water after she's asked three times, or she forgets her dark glasses when the sun comes out, look out! But when it comes to something truly bad happening, Mom plugs into this supreme calm.
Maria Semple
#69. In a time of crisis we all have the potential to morph up to a new level and do things we never thought possible.
Stuart Wilde
#70. It's dangerous to accept crisis as your baseline. It gets harder and harder to see the anti-crises that are so requisite to happiness: the quiet times, the crucial pauses - like those in a poem.
Amity Gaige
#71. History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.
Robert Kiyosaki
#72. In times of life crisis, whether wild fires or smoldering stress, the first thing I do is go back to basics ... am I eating right, am I getting enough sleep, am I getting some physical and mental exercise everyday.
Edward Albert
#73. I hope my work contributes to understanding long-term patterns of human behavior and how we survive, thrive, or fail during times of environmental, social, and economic crisis.
Sarah Parcak
#74. The economic crisis really affected my family - 2006 to 2011 were really bad times. Almost everybody in my family lost their jobs.
Joey Badass
#75. The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
Edmund Burke
#76. Chronic malnutrition, or the lack of proper nutrition over time directly contributes to three times as many child deaths as food scarcity. Yet surprisingly, you don't really hear about this hidden crisis through the morning news, Twitter or headlines of major newspapers.
Cat Cora
#77. Value of gold is understood in crisis than on a occasion. But the gold plays both the role reminding its significance. We yet times need to value and de-value to understand and appreciate significance of several things.
Santosh Avvannavar
#78. When the history of our times is written, will we be remembered as the generation that turned our backs in a moment of global crisis or will it be recorded that we did the right thing?
Nelson Mandela
#79. No blare of trumpets announces a modern crisis. In these matter-of-fact times, a telephone call will do.
Elie Abel
#80. During times of emergencies, civil crisis, or natural disasters it is important for persons to remain free to exercise their constitutional rights in a lawful and appropriate manner, and I believe it is important that we provide individuals with specific reassurance that we value those rights.
Colleen Hanabusa
#81. There is no crisis in cinema. There are negative periods. There are times when some films are received well and others aren't. The past teaches us that some films were received badly, while others go sailing on.
Vittorio De Sica
#82. For a kid in crisis, there is no "make it happen," only "survive today." Who am I to have the cojones to think my "critical questions" are the most important thing in this kid's life? I think of the times I was in crisis and failed to pay attention to the manila folders on my desk as an adult.
Dawn Casey-Rowe
#83. If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.
Douglas Coupland
#84. Ask, 'What's the meaning in this crisis? What's it trying to teach?' . . . Hard times can be gifts. They can force us to change and get us where we're meant to be.
Kristin Von Kreisler
#85. The challenges presented by our budget crisis are some of the most difficult we have ever faced. We are -very simply put -adjusting to reality. These times, and our citizens, demand change.
Kathleen Blanco
#86. Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.
Iris Chang
#87. Sometimes I wondered if I had made Joan up. Other times I wondered if she would continue to pop in at every crisis of my life to remind me of what I had been, and what I had been through, and carry on her own separate but similar crisis under my nose.
Sylvia Plath
#88. In times of war and in hours of crisis, Senator Kerry has turned his back on 'pay any price' and 'bear any burden', and he's replaced those commitments with 'wait and see' and 'cut and run
George W. Bush
#89. In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee - or laugh.
Robert Orben
#90. The times are too difficult and the crisis too severe to indulge in schadenfreude. Looking at it in perspective, the fact that there would be a financial crisis was perfectly predictable: its general nature, if not its magnitude. Markets are always inefficient.
Noam Chomsky
#91. Systematic research supports the message of these cases. As noted in an article in the New York Times, even in the most extreme circumstances - like the financial crisis - directors bore little consequence for their poor decisions.
Jeffrey Pfeffer
#92. The crisis of modern society is precisely that the youth no longer feel heroic in the plan for action that their culture has set up. They don't believe it is empirically true to the problems of their lives and times.
Ernest Becker
#93. When you have a time of crisis what happens depends on what ideas are floating around, and what ideas have been developed, and thought through, and are made effective.
Milton Friedman
#94. A lot of times when you do things where you're killing people, the character is always having an existential crisis about it. It's fun to be no-holds-barred and have no big crisis of conscious.
Rose McGowan
#95. The National Guard has served America as both a wartime force and the first military responders in times of domestic crisis. Hundreds of times each year, the nation's governors call upon their Guard troops to respond to fires, floods, hurricanes and other natural disasters.
Russel Honore
#96. In hard times of severe crisis if you want to create new jobs, I recommend you to start killing some people. It's the old "topos" of war in time of peace.
William C. Brown
#97. Dante Alighieri. The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
Dan Brown
#98. We do not influence the course of events by persuading people that we are right when we make what they regard as radical proposals. Rather, we exert influence by keeping options available when something has to be done at a time of crisis.
Milton Friedman
#99. We can become very short-sighted in terms of objectives. The first thing to go during times of economic crisis and budget cuts is funding for things that are essential and not-quantifiable, like the arts. Save Big Bird
Julia Stiles
#100. When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis, those who are the most themselves are the victims.
Gregory Maguire
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