Top 1200 Hostage Crisis Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Hereditary monarchy offers numerous advantages for America. It is the only form of government able to unify a heterogeneous people. Thanks to centuries of dynastic marriage, the family tree of every royal house is an ethnic grab bag with something for everybody. We need this badly; America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home. We can't go on much longer depending upon disasters like Pearl Harbor and the Iranian hostage-taking to "bring us together.

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

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

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

I have given up the ambition to be a great scholar. I want to be more- simply a human. . . . We are not true humans, but beings who live by a civilization inherited from the past, that keeps us hostage, that confines us. No freedom of movement. Nothing. Everything in us is killed by our calculations for our future, by our social position and cast. You see, I am not happy-yet I am happy. I suffer, but that is part of life. I live, I don't care about my existence, and that is the beginning of wisdom.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The financial crisis happened because no-one could actually say out loud how bad things were.

What's amazing to me is how many of the issues facing women in the ancient world still linger today. Take Odysseus' wife, Penelope, a brilliant, resourceful woman who ends up in a terrible situation: in her husband's absence, she is being held hostage in her own home by men who claim to be courting her. She tries to make them leave, but because she's a woman they refuse, blaming their bad behavior on her desirability.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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