Top 1200 Cuban Missile Crisis Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

When we talk about Cuban democracy we are referring to participatory democracy which is big difference with representative bourgeois democracy. Our is a democracy in which everything is consulted with the people; it is a democracy in which every aspect and important decision that has an impact in the life and society of the people, is done in consultation.

Keep in mind that whenever you are in a crisis, you are in the midst of danger as well as opportunity.

The current food crisis is an opportunity for companies to engage in agriculture or biotechnology.

My ability to keep cool in a crisis is based entirely on not knowing all the facts.

Throughout history government has seldom hesitated from robbing its citizens in a crisis.

In times of crisis, credibility is an American president's most valuable currency.

A pope going through a faith crisis would be funny to see.

I fear that the migratory crisis signals the beginning of the end of women's rights.

Getting a sleeve at my age is a midlife crisis for the man who can't afford a sports car.

Whenever the country has faced a crisis, the TDP has played a positive and constructive role.

Many of the greatest Cuban boxing champions since the revolution triumphed on the island resisted the temptation to leave Cuba and, in some cases, defied any suggestion they were tempted in the first place. Most famously, Teofilo Stevenson rejected multi-million dollar offers to leave his island to fight Muhammad Ali.

City Ballet remains a great company in perpetual artistic crisis.

People don't hijack planes anymore because that old system of hijacking in order to barter for a prison release or get to a different country no longer works, exactly, because 9/11 recoded the hostage's interpretation of a hijack. If a hijacker isn't trying to use the plane as a missile, then he is in danger of being killed by the hostages. There is no minor terror threat anymore. No mid-level terrorism.

In time of grave public crisis, one must have the courage to face a million and one opponents.

I had kind of a midlife crisis at twenty which probably doesn’t augur well for my longevity

But the most important thing is, Enron did not cause the California crisis.

The same advice my commanding officer at Patrol Squadron 17, Cmdr. Robert J. Quinn, gave me before I was grilled to be given the responsibility to lead a crew of 12 all over the world, ready to stop a Russian submarine preparing to wipe out an American city with a nuclear missile: ‘Always remember that common sense and communication will solve 95 percent of the challenges you face in the Navy and life.

Whenever democracy has fallen into a crisis, the Korean people have sprung up in rage.

When the velocity of progress increases beyond a certain point, it becomes indistinguishable from crisis.

We don't often talk about the quarter-life crisis, but it is a real thing.

Whenever you have a crisis, you're always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born

If only life were one long crisis, everyone would be perfect.

The crisis of the Western world exists to the degree in which it is indifferent to God.

The Obama Doctrine is to ignore an international crisis or go to war. There is no in between.

Crisis for others is a source of despair. For me, it's an opportunity to bring reform.

Cuba continues to be a source of instability in the region. For example, historic numbers of people are fleeing the island of Cuba, putting migratory pressure on the United States. Number two, this Cuban government is anti-American. They sponsor - they allow the Chinese and the Russians to conduct espionage, electronic espionage and others from the island of Cuba.

It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.

There is a crisis of religious authority world wide, and there are many reasons. One is colonialism.

A crisis of confidence is so common that it should be considered a universal part of the adoption process.

I was going through a crisis once, so I went to therapy because I was so unbearable for myself.

High blood pressure is a major health crisis in the black community.

Actually men are closer to having the ability to act egoistic when it comes to a crisis situation.

We live in a time of crisis in the secular culture and in the church with regard to the beautiful.

In a crisis, don't hide behind anything or anybody. They're going to find you anyway.

[The economic crisis ] gave people the option to put money into private accounts.

Since I've been in this industry, it's been a constant fight; "Oh, he's white, he's Cuban." "He's tryin' to do hip-hop and he's too Spanish, he's too English."You fight all these stereotypes through all these boundaries, and you find a way to tap-dance through all these different genres and cultures through music - that's what Rebelution is.

The Bush administration continues to coddle China, despite its continuing crackdown on democratic reform, its brutal subjugation of Tibet, its irresponsible export of nuclear and missile technology... Such forbearance on our part might have made sense during the Cold War when China was the counterweight to Soviet power. It makes no sense to play the China card now when our opponents have thrown in their hand.

It shouldn't take a constitutional crisis or an attack on the nation to create honest dialogue in the Senate.

Cuban artists had, for a while, a privileged position within Cuba that is probably going to become slightly less restricted to them. I think they'll continue to join the international art world, so those people who are extremely successful will become even more so and those who are struggling will continue to struggle.

The pope [Francis] knows that the marriage culture is in crisis throughout the world, and so is the family.

Historical experience shows that a crisis causes either a recovery or catastrophic consequences.

President Bush is manufacturing a crisis by suggesting that Social Security is in imminent danger. It is not.

We have a workforce crisis across the NHS with around 100,000 vacancies.

The issue of managing through a crisis is you have to be decisive even if you don't have perfect information.

There is a crisis that is not political - an epidemic of loneliness, of sadness - and we're completely unequal to dealing with it.

What colonialism does is cause an identity crisis about one's own culture.

There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.

Good in Crisis; Sucks at Normal.’ That about sums up my whole life, doesn’t it?

Financial crisis is the moment of truth for real collectors and true artists.

I think I've been in a perpetual quarter-life crisis consistently throughout my twenties.

Republicans advising candidates to "grab onto the best elements of [his] anti-Washington populist agenda," but warning that Trump is a "misguided missile," "subject to farcical fits" and candidates should avoid getting drawn into "every Trump dust-up," but should quickly condemn some of his comments, including "wacky things about women."

I think in times of crisis it's the artists' responsibility to dig a little deeper.

It is undeniable that the looming environmental crisis is partly the consequence of population growth.

It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.

There are downsides to implicitly trusting banks, as the 2008 financial crisis showed.

That's all before the crisis. We always have this kind of cooperation with Iran [Supplies, weaponry].

When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis, those who are the most themselves are the victims.

When I was agriculture minister, we drafted specific policies to tackle the agrarian crisis.

We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.