Top 1200 Life Crisis Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

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

On the way from the Renaissance to our days we have enriched our experience, but we have lost the concept of a Supreme Complete Entity which used to restrain our passions and our irresponsibility. We have placed too much hope in political and social reforms, only to find out that we were being deprived of our most precious possession: our spiritual life. In the East, it is destroyed by the dealings and machinations of the ruling party. In the West, commercial interests tend to suffocate it. This is the real crisis.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

To be born in imbecility, in the midst of pain and crisis; to be the plaything of ignorance, error, need, sickness, wickedness, and passions; to return step by step to imbecility, from the time of lisping to that of doting; to live among knaves and charlatans of all kinds; to die between one man who takes your pulse and another who troubles your head; never to know where you come from, why you come and where you are going! That is what is called the most important gift of our parents and nature. Life.

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.

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

Superheroes are also about immigrants. Superman, the prototype of all superheroes, is a prototypical immigrant. His homeland was in crisis, so his parents sent him to America in search of a better life. He has two names, one American, Clark Kent, and the other foreign, Kal-El. He wears two sets of clothes and lives in between two cultures. He loves his new country, but a part of him still longs for his old one.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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...

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

I started to change. It was sort of a restaurant mid-life crisis, you could say. I lost a lot of confidence, not so much as a father or as a friend, but as a boss, as a chef that's to make decisions throughout the day all the time. I just slowly started burning out. Once you lose your confidence like that, you start being angry in the kitchen. I couldn't recognize myself anymore. I started writing the journal. It was never meant to be a book, but the editor at Phaidon read parts of it. As editors do, I guess.

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

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

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

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