Top 1200 Hostage Crisis Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

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Last updated on November 18, 2024.
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.
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 longer it takes to respond to a major development or crisis, the higher the chance of violence being seen as the only answer. — © Miroslav Lajcak
The longer it takes to respond to a major development or crisis, the higher the chance of violence being seen as the only answer.
Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of Champagne.
It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible.
I will work towards ensuring that farmers do not face any crisis and live up to the confidence they have reposed in me.
Our lives are one endless stretch of misery punctuated by processed fast foods and the occasional crisis or amusing curiosity.
In a crisis, markets always look to see who is the next-worst off and proactively begin shying away from them.
We've fallen into a fin-de-siecle period of crisis in which people believe only the things they see right in front of them
The water crisis in Flint, Michigan, has shown us what can happen when we ignore the warning signs of lead poisoning and corroding pipes.
Trump's rise to power, fueled by hatred and portending crisis, threatens to eviscerate our constitutional system of government.
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.
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. — © John Kenneth Galbraith
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.
Much of the shadow banking sector, a major contributor to the economic crisis, was also only possible because of taxhaven secrecy.
I grew up in Arkansas, and I went to Little Rock Central High, which was the site of a desegregation crisis in '57. I graduated in '97.
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.
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.
One of the crises that we have to deal with is a crisis of law enforcement officials that are not physically capable enough to handle without taking out the gun.
Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.
It's almost 10 years since the 2008 crisis, but we all still remember the consequences of ignoring threats to the public finances.
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.
The greatest presidents have been those who demonstrated astute judgment in times of crisis - often despite the advice they were getting.
When President Trump and I arrived in Washington, there was a new sense that the crisis of illegal immigration would now be taken seriously.
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.
I admire President Obama. He inherited the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. That was a terrible time for America.
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.
Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point
If NATO goes in and solves the crisis in Darfur, when the next one comes along Africa's leaders will just sit back.
Tunisia is extremely dependent on economic conditions in Europe, which is why it also experienced shockwaves from the euro crisis.
My message is that if we do not care about the climate crisis and if we do not act now then almost no other question is going to matter in the future.
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.
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.
I tend to process stuff by making jokes about it. It's something that makes me annoying to be around in times of real crisis.
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.
Levity is the lubricant of a crisis. We resort to jokes, pranks and good natured kidding to relieve tension, stress and boredom.
We have no exposure in Europe and not made any finances to the companies there. So the question of Greek debt crisis impacting the bank does not arise.
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.
I think it is important to reach people through arts and literature, because then you establish a connection that's not an instant crisis. — © Edwidge Danticat
I think it is important to reach people through arts and literature, because then you establish a connection that's not an instant crisis.
At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
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.
With such compelling information, the question is why haven't we been able to do more to prevent the crisis of underage drinking? The answer is: the alcohol industry.
During the financial crisis and bailouts of 2008, it probably occurred to very few average people that we were entering a period of hardship for billionaires.
We are facing a tipping point of environmental crisis unprecedented in human history and our very survival is dependent on protecting nature.
America has seen enough of a handful of people growing rich at the cost of our nation descending into economic crisis.
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 role of photography in crisis and recovery is fascinating, a dance between providing access and destroying the magic and mystique of the monarchy.
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?
To me, nuclear weapons are the secret crisis of our time. Frankly, everyone needs to reread John Hersey's 'Hiroshima.' — © Erik Larson
To me, nuclear weapons are the secret crisis of our time. Frankly, everyone needs to reread John Hersey's 'Hiroshima.'
With an endless assortment of children and animals living under one roof, there was always some absurd crisis that gave comic relief to my problems.
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.
In my 20s, when I was acting, I probably had a little bit of a personality crisis in the sense that everybody related to me as Bruce Lee's daughter.
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.
Fake sympathy is the politicians demanding more cash as they ignore the underlying crisis. They prefer money over morality.
We as a country are very good at responding to acute, short-term crises. When the crisis becomes chronic, we tend to withdraw.
I like my politicians and my judges and my lawyers to be simple. I think if you worry about where your hemline is you're really not concentrating on the world crisis.
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.
A political candidacy built around hope and change and compromise would eventually become a presidency of crisis and confrontation.
It is only in the depths of crisis and despair that the fear of losing one's personality breeds millennial hopes of rescue: otherwise, complacency prevails.
The Bush Administration claims there is a Social Security crisis only to distract Americans from its serious mismanagement of the federal budget.
My quest to find a great role for myself started long before this film [ "Our Brand Is Crisis"]came around.
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