Crisis quotes

Discover thought-provoking quotes that reflect the complexities of crisis: resilience, courage, and the power of overcoming adversity. Dive deep into words that capture the essence of navigating challenging times in life.

When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can't be answered.

- Ryszard Kapuscinski

There is no better illustration of that crisis than the fact that the president is openly violating our nation's laws by authorizing the NSA to engage in warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens.

- John Conyers

We have received credible reports that show a clear and consistent pattern: entire villages are looted, burned down and sometimes bombed. Large numbers of civilians have been killed and scores of women and children have been abducted, raped and tortured.

- Jan Egeland

We need better coordination on the international side, just as they need better and more effective efforts on the Somali side. We have too many reconstruction and development assistance plans.

- Jan Egeland

The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory.

- James Tobin

Although we have do not have adequate access to all parts of Darfur we do fortunately have humanitarian personnel, including staff from my own office, in each of the three provincial capitals of Darfur.

- Jan Egeland

However, the combination of civil resistance, of large-scale mass activities and strikes, with a certain degree of revolutionary violence, could provoke a crisis in the enemy's camp that would ultimately lead to essential changes.

- Joe Slovo

I have been working, as emergency relief coordinator, on an international scale, very hard to build a wider alliance of partners in assistance efforts.

- Jan Egeland

I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He's not crazy, it's just the litany of the mid-life crisis.

- Bret Easton Ellis

We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population.

- Jan Egeland

The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty.

- Jeffrey Sachs

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.

- James A. Garfield

Certainly toward the end of the season, you and I could be in a ballpark and they might say the crowd is 30,000, and we could look around and see that there was no more than 10,000.

- Fay Vincent

Finally, I also come in recognition of the great work that has been undertaken by the NGOs and UN agencies that have been active for many years here, especially through the local staff and international staff here in Somaliland and in Somalia at large.

- Jan Egeland

We've got to be judged by how we do in times of crisis.

- Johnnie Cochran

The crisis that the world finds itself in as it swings on the hinge of a new millennium is located in something deeper than particular ways of organizing political systems and economies.

- Huston Smith

I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.

- Fay Vincent

In a crisis, don't hide behind anything or anybody. They're going to find you anyway.

- Paul Bryant

This is a coup for commissioner Bud Selig. I'm surprised it's as good as it is.

- Fay Vincent

You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film.

- Claire Danes