Crises Quotes

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I feel a great sense of obligation and gratitude toward the Order of DeMolay for the important part it played in my life. Its precepts have been invaluable in making decisions, facing dilemmas and crises. DeMolay stands for all that is good for the family and for our country. I feel privileged to have enjoyed membership in DeMolay.

- Walt Disney

I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I`m a weird kind of animal.

- Brian May

Today, our greatest public policy concerns know no borders, ... A global network of public policy schools offers the best opportunity for the academic community to work collectively on multiple intertwined challenges -- from sustainable development to trade to terrorism to public health crises to the protection of human rights worldwide -- and to prepare some of the world`s most able graduate students to assume global leadership roles in the coming decades.

- Lisa Anderson

Believe me, as one who has seen a number of international crises firsthand, they cannot be handled without an understanding of history.

- Pierre Salinger

Studies have shown that daily doses of hydroxyurea decrease the number of painful crises a person may experience and lengthen their life span as well,

- Dorothy Moore

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

- Abraham Lincoln

As major orchestras around the world are gripped in various kinds of crises and upheaval, we need to be sure that we are bringing up this new generation.

- James Levine

Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.

- C.S. Forester

We don`t get offered crises, they arrive.

- Elizabeth Janeway

In every age `the good old days` were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.

- Aaron Krach

And they said if we help with the crisis, they would do a lot of positive acts. After we helped in those crises, they showed negative acts and the Japanese and Turks were ashamed.

- Ahmed Mukhlef

Firstly, economic globalisation has brought prosperity and development to many countries, but also financial crises to Asia, Latin America and Russia, and increasing poverty and marginalisation.

- Akitsugu Bando

Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to the growing series of extremely urgent crises that is confronting us today.

- Alan Reiter

Only under conditions of revolutionary crises do you have the highest level of self-organization; this is the Soviet type of organization, which is to say, workers` councils, people`s councils, call them what you want, popular committees.

- Alejandro Aviles

Crises are challenges, not calamities.

- Alexa Posny

The crises in North Korea, Iran, the Middle East, show how quickly things can change and how they can go wrong. We must be prepared. And right now the Army is not.

- Alexis Gordon

We`re in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe.

- Alfred Carl Hottes

What one decides to do in crisis depends on one`s philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn`t any philosophy in crises, others make the decision.

- Ali Karimi

Yes, Socialists should defend their country in great historical crises.

- Allen Holmes

In these troubled, uncertain times, we don`t need more command and control; we need better means to engage everyone`s intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise.

- Alyaksandr Milinkevich

People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they`ve had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.

- Amr Moussa

The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we understand nature`s transformative powers, we see that it is our powerful ally, not a force to feared our subdued.

- Andrew Clay

That was a fraud intended to seize power, and look what they did with it. They kept creating crises which Ukrainian people struggled to overcome.

- Andrew Humphrey

These crises are such a heavy burden, and they are so self-inflicted, except for the court vacancies, that if he is not very careful and tries to put across someone who is seen as an ultraconservative, he is going to touch off a conflagration in the Senate.

- B. F. Skinner

I think he`s really undermined his credibility at this point, and it really saddles him with the kind of problems that Johnson and Nixon faced. These crises are such a heavy burden, and they are so self-inflicted, except for the court vacancies, that if he is not very careful and tries to put across someone who is seen as an ultraconservative, he is going to touch off a conflagration in the Senate.

- B. F. Skinner

After Christmas we had two crises. The problems in Nigeria had a short fuse and there was an immediate drop in shipments while the situation in Iran has a much longer fuse.

- Barbara Banks