Top 1200 Existential Crisis Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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

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.

A political candidacy built around hope and change and compromise would eventually become a presidency of crisis and confrontation.

I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we'll have to work on overcoming it.

No man bears more responsibility for the present worldwide financial crisis and coming depression than Alan Greenspan.

I think Bergman's films have eternal relevance, because they deal with the difficulty of personal relationships and lack of communication between people and religious aspirations and mortality, existential themes that will be relevant a thousand years from now. When many of the things that are successful and trendy today will have been long relegated to musty-looking antiques, his stuff will still be great.

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.

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.

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.

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.

For years, elites in both political parties have ignored the illegal immigration crisis growing on America's southern border.

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

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

Leaders play a unique role in periods of crisis and chaos. Because if you don't, you're not going to harness the power of all the people behind you.

I think midlife crisis is just a point where people's careers have reached some plateau and they have to reflect on their personal relationships.

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

Why are we even here [on earth], what's our human nature? It's precipitating a real philosophical crisis that I find quite fascinating.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

Trump's rise to power, fueled by hatred and portending crisis, threatens to eviscerate our constitutional system of government.

In a study we did of bereavement, we found that rather impressive numbers of widows and widowers had not simply gone back to their pre-loss functioning, but grown. This was due to a kind of increased existential awareness that resulted from this confrontation with the death of another. And I think it brought them in touch with their own death, so they began to experience a kind of preciousness to life that comes with an experience of its transiency.

A poverty learned with the humble, the poor, the sick and all those who are on the existential outskirts of life. A theoretical poverty is no use to us. Poverty is learned by touching the flesh of the poor Christ, in the humble, in the poor, in the sick and in children.

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

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

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.

Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point

The role of photography in crisis and recovery is fascinating, a dance between providing access and destroying the magic and mystique of the monarchy.

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

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

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

In the Army, we address a crisis by identifying critical objectives, planning a response, marshaling resources and communicating the plan clearly.

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.

There was a look of woe on his face that was almost comical. Raids, bullets, criminals...no problem. A missing duster? Crisis.

If NATO goes in and solves the crisis in Darfur, when the next one comes along Africa's leaders will just sit back.

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.

Tunisia is extremely dependent on economic conditions in Europe, which is why it also experienced shockwaves from the euro crisis.

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

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.

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

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.

What is the hope that can give meaning to life? Without some form of hope, the Holy Father argues that life becomes tedious and potentially burdersome, even if it is marked by material influence and technical progress. The person without hope finds himself in an existential difficulty: For what enduring purpose am I clinging to this life that I love and do not want to lose?

Struggle has a natural place in our life, but the fight or flight syndrome is often false struggle. There are times for that but we can have that reaction in areas of our life where it's not successful. Areas that concern existential issues or qualities of life - like meaning or purpose or love. These things actually come to us more as we let go of struggling to achieve them.

This is my number one priority. I've got a lot of things on my plate. But my top priority is to defeat ISIL and to eliminate the scourge of this barbaric terrorism that's been taking place around the world. Groups like ISIL can't destroy us. They can't defeat us. They don't produce anything. They're not an existential threat to us. It is very important for us to not respond with fear.

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

Not only do we need to focus on classrooms, but adult literacy is a huge issue in historically marginalized communities. That's a crisis, and it's one that you can't see.

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

[Hillary] Clinton's plan would trigger a constitutional crisis unlike almost anything we have ever seen before.

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 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.

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?

In a crisis, markets always look to see who is the next-worst off and proactively begin shying away from them.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.