Top 1200 Ecological Crisis Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Sports journalism is in the midst of an identity crisis so profound that we no longer know whether we're made up of one word or two.

I felt that the Fed had always been the agency that picked up the pieces when there was a financial crisis, and it was invented to do exactly that.

All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.

We can prove to the American people that fixing the crisis at our border is more important than scoring political points.

One of the things you realize when you have a health crisis in your immediate family is that life does not stop so that you can go through that experience.

The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.

To effectively fight the coronavirus crisis, we have to make sure that every person has access to quality, affordable health coverage.

We cannot just say there is a homelessness crisis in San Francisco and continue moving at our normal pace.

The longer it takes to respond to a major development or crisis, the higher the chance of violence being seen as the only answer.

If people see how we're all interconnected and connected with Nature, we wouldn't have an environmental crisis, we wouldn't have two dozen wars all over the world.

The mortgage crisis is a clear instance of consumers who needed protection. There was predatory lending to people who didn't know what they were doing.

I experienced the year 2000 dot com crash and the 2008 financial crisis, and it almost wiped out the company.

America has seen enough of a handful of people growing rich at the cost of our nation descending into economic crisis.

It is not in Poland's interest that the U.K. leaves the European Union. We think it would lead to a big crisis and even a collapse if the U.K. left.

My hope is that the corona crisis will help bring us into a new age of cooperation and solidarity and a realization that we're in this together.

If you ask me, the place that a story happens is as equal character. It's almost like an ecological viewpoint: These people are living in this piece of land, and in this piece of land in this time this is possible. For me, I almost think location first. It's time first - what year is it - then where are we, and then who is in it.

I admire President Obama. He inherited the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. That was a terrible time for America.

Arizona is in the midst of a fiscal crisis. We've cut school funding. And they pass a bill questioning Obama's citizenship? For real?

The two defining issues of this century are both universal but felt locally: the global water crisis and the resources boom.

Please continue to pray for and bring attention to those suffering in the ongoing Ebola crisis in West Africa.

The man who can look upon a crisis without being willing to offer himself upon the altar of his country is not for public trust.

A company needs to have good business reflexes, to be able to marshal its forces in a crisis or in response to any unplanned event.

The U.S., France, Germany and Canada have all responded to the financial crisis by boosting rather than cutting their science funding. The U.K. has not.

I think The Czars had an identity crisis, as we were five guys pulling in different musical directions.

If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I'm in crisis.

Is there a free speech crisis on college campuses? One can certainly make that argument, but that portrayal is at least as misleading as it is informative.

The attempts to distort the truth and to hide the facts behind blanket accusations have been undertaken at all stages of the Ukrainian crisis.

And then Jack chopped down what was the world's last beanstalk, adding murder and ecological terrorism to the theft, enticement, and trespass charges already mentioned, and all the giant's children didn't have a daddy anymore. But he got away with it and lived happily ever after, without so much as a guilty twinge about what he had done...which proves that you can be excused for just about anything if you are a hero, because no one asks inconvenient questions.

Man has sought to take from the natural world not only that which is necessary for his stability and survival, but often seeks to satisfy his perceived and ultimately false psychological needs, such as his need for self-display, luxuries and the like. Twenty percent of humanity consumes eighty percent of the world's wealth and is accountable for an equal percentage of the world's ecological catastrophes.

I will work towards ensuring that farmers do not face any crisis and live up to the confidence they have reposed in me.

Probably, the single most prevalent claim advanced by the proponents of a new paradigm is that they can solve the problems that led the old one to a crisis.

It's almost 10 years since the 2008 crisis, but we all still remember the consequences of ignoring threats to the public finances.

We can choose this moment of crisis to ask and answer the big questions of society's evolution — like, what do we want to be when we grow up?

Levity is the lubricant of a crisis. We resort to jokes, pranks and good natured kidding to relieve tension, stress and boredom.

We really accomplished what we set out to do with the Recovery Act programs, which was to fill the lending gap created by the crisis.

Our lives are one endless stretch of misery punctuated by processed fast foods and the occasional crisis or amusing curiosity.

I can go back to poverty if a situation comes. I have sailed through the worst days of my life, and I am prepared for any crisis.

The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.

Those who have a lot of money in Greece invest in housing abroad. It's all immoral. The Greek crisis is structural, but also political.

We as a country are very good at responding to acute, short-term crises. When the crisis becomes chronic, we tend to withdraw.

The Bush Administration claims there is a Social Security crisis only to distract Americans from its serious mismanagement of the federal budget.

When you have that window of opportunity called a crisis, move as quickly as you can, get as much done as you can. There's a momentum for change that's very compelling.

Crisis for others is a source of despair. For me, it's an opportunity to bring reform. I owe this country a debt I cannot repay.

I agree that we need a working relationship with Russia to deescalate a nuclear arms race, to resolve the crisis in Syria.

Coronavirus may well represent the biggest health crisis any of us experience in our lifetimes.

Here comes 40. I'm feeling my age and I've ordered the Ferrari. I'm going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.

I take ISIS at its word. When they said, in their words, 'We'll use and exploit the refugee crisis to infiltrate the West,' that concerns me.

I think it is important to reach people through arts and literature, because then you establish a connection that's not an instant crisis.

I am an optimist by nature and believe strongly that technology can be brought to bear to create alternatives, even in crisis situations.

The foes now are universal - poverty, famine, religious radicalization, desertification, drugs, proliferation of nuclear weapons, ecological devastation. They threaten all nations, just as science and information are the potential friends of all nations. Classical diplomacy and strategy were aimed at identifying enemies and confronting them. Now they have to identify dangers, global or local, and tackle them before they become disasters.

The solution [to a crisis pregnancy] is not to kill the innocent baby but to deal with the mother's values and her attitudes toward life.

We are at crisis point. I think anybody that sees this nation as being on stable economic or fiscal ground is fooling themselves.

There was the Missile Crisis, but one can't attribute to the [J.F.] Kennedy years anything like the problems that [Franklin] Roosevelt stood over and surmounted.

Fake sympathy is the politicians demanding more cash as they ignore the underlying crisis. They prefer money over morality.

Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of Champagne.

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.

I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way.

When President Trump and I arrived in Washington, there was a new sense that the crisis of illegal immigration would now be taken seriously.

Humanity are not individuals; we are collective. And if we have difference, we have wars all the time. We have crisis. We need to open our mind. This is the only solution we have.

It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible.