Top 1200 Ecological Crisis Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Climate change is a shared crisis - one that transcends politics and borders and must be fought collectively, justly and transparently.

The purpose of direct action is to create a situation so crisis-packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation.

I understand the damage the expenses crisis has done to Parliament, and the paramount importance of restoring trust in our politics.

Few issues better illustrate the limits of the Obama administration's 'reset' with Russia than the crisis in Syria.

I would like to see whether my supposed successors can really operate the government without causing a crisis.

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.

The world will not evolve past its current state of crisis by using the same thinking that created the situation.

At some point, I kind of went through this weird existential crisis in high school where I was just really depressed.

Whenever there was a crisis, I found a man to help me take the edge off the feelings of helplessness and pain.

Unfortunately, today's colleges and universities, and especially our business schools, do not offer pragmatic crisis management teachings.

It's true across the U.K. that those who had least to do with causing the economic crisis are carrying the heaviest burden. That's unacceptable.

I've never been one of those people who has an extremely high level of crisis. I just don't need all that emotional drama.

No man has ever gone through the crisis of deliberately making Jesus Lord and found Him to be a failure.

There is no question that the recovery from the global recession triggered by the 2008 financial crisis has been unusually lengthy and anemic.

As Development Secretary, I have seen in the developing world that climate change there is not a theory, is not a future threat: it is a contemporary crisis.

One way to express the spiritual crisis of our time is to say that most of us have an address but cannot be found there.

We cannot solve the deficit crisis on the back of our seniors. We need all Americans to pay their fair share.

I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in.

Since I'm a professional communicator, I think I instinctively cling to doing what I do best, even in times of crisis and turmoil.

This is America, but the way that the people of Flint are being treated with this water crisis is like a third-world country.

What Adam McKay did with illuminating the financial crisis in 'The Big Short,' he's now doing with the media in 'Succession.'

As we confront the child obesity crisis, advergames that promote unhealthy foods to kids are a real cause for concern.

What we have is a crisis of imagination. Albert Einstein said that you cannot solve a problem with the same mind-set that created it.

Look at what realists have done for us. They have led us to war and climate change, poverty on an unimaginable scale, and wholesale ecological destruction. Half of humanity goes to bed hungry because of all the realistic leaders in the world. I tell people who call me 'unrealistic' to show me what their realism has done. Realism is an outdated, overplayed and wholly exaggerated concept.

On Wall Street, financial crisis destroys jobs. Here in Washington, it creates them. The rest is just details.

These two entities—Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—are not facing any kind of financial crisis.

In a world wracked by hatred, economic crisis, and political tension, America remains mankind's best hope.

Competing pressures tempt one to believe that an issue deferred is a problem avoided; more often it is a crisis invited.

Food has always been my friend. When I wanted to feel better or had a crisis in my life, I opened the icebox.

I was having a really-early-onset midlife crisis, and then something clicked in an improv class, and I knew.

If you look weird, you can blame the role, you know? So no one's going to tell me I'm having a mid-life crisis.

We can't afford the wrath of Heaven. We survived a deluge by the skin of our teeth, but an economic crisis would be disastrous.

The eyes of the world are fixed on the U.S. to see if we have the political courage and moral sense to solve our debt crisis.

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?

The environmental crisis has deep spiritual, philosophical, and religious roots and causes. It is not merely the result of bad engineering.

In fighting the debt crisis, E.U. countries have enhanced co-operation and carried out reform with tremendous courage. This is laudable.

It is past time for Congress to get serious about our spending crisis and impose fiscal restraint.

If we all looked out for each other a little bit more, I think we wouldn't have a lot of the crisis that we have in today's society.

This is not a time to quail, it is not a crisis, nor should we see it as an excuse for wobbling or self-doubt. But it is a moment for hope...

I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through.

This is the United States of America. It means we respond to our fellow Americans in times of crisis and emergency and disaster.

'Tis always best to tell the truth. At every crisis, I recommend this as a chief contribution to security in life.

I like those crisis moments - if you're on top of it and don't get pulled under by panic and fear, it's a very bonding thing.

You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film.

I was a professor at Princeton University. And, in that capacity, I studied for many years the role of financial crisis in the economy.

In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

If we had kept the vision of interconnectedness, we would not have created the kind of environmental crisis facing the world today.

The EU is mired in deep structural crisis. Greece, Portugal and Ireland cannot survive inside the Euro.

I'm quite worried about the fiscal imbalances that we've got and what that might mean in terms of financial crisis ahead.

Today's reports confirm that, unfortunately, post-crisis America is still not back to its good economic self.

This is sort of the Cuban Missile Crisis on steroids, what we are doing to Russia right now, and I don't think this is a good idea.

... many a suicide might be averted if the person contemplating it could find the proper assistance when such a crisis impends.

The best people know that there are two phases in every crisis: the one where you manage it and the other where you learn from it. To succeed you have to do both

Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.

I also believed that our public at home would be strong enough to survive even the present crisis.

We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.

I think the Covid-19 crisis has been blown out of proportion and has created an unnecessary fear psychosis.

I think I'm a bit like Ishmael in 'Moby Dick': a story teller and an observer in his own crisis.

From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.

I have an existential crisis every time I walk into a bookshop, knowing that I'm not going to read all the books before I die.