Sunday, July 24, 2011 – The Current Crisis
Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out. ~ Anton Chekhov
Every crisis offers you extra desired power. ~ William Moulton Marston
Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer. ~ George William Curtis
Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem. ~ Eric Hoffer
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own. ~ Charles de Gaulle
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts. ~ Abraham Lincoln
Fashion is never in crisis because clothes are always necessary. ~ Achille Maramotti
The great thing about baseball is there’s a crisis every day. ~ Gabe Paul
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become. ~ Brooke Foss Westcott
In a crisis, don’t hide behind anything or anybody. They’re going to find you anyway. ~ Paul Bryant
In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee – or laugh. ~ Robert Orben
The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow. ~ H. G. Wells
Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis. ~ James A. Garfield
Real style is not having a program – it’s how one behaves in a crisis. ~ Frank Auerbach
The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis. ~ Franklin P. Jones
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. ~ Henry Kissinger
In crises the most daring course is often safest. ~ Henry Kissinger
A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises. ~ Andre Maurois
Crises are challenges, not calamities. ~ Guy Verhofstadt
Even boredom has its crises. ~ Mason Cooley
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. ~ Brooks Atkinson
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. ~ Jeanette Rankin
Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down. ~ Natalie Goldberg
Life does not accommodate you; it shatters you. Every seed destroys its container, or else there would be no fruition. ~ Florida Scott-Maxwell
Try to relax and enjoy the crisis. ~ Ashleigh Brilliant
In the best of times, our days are numbered anyway. So it would be a crime against nature for any generation to take the world crisis so solemnly, that it put off enjoying those things for which we were designed in the first place: the opportunity to do good work, to enjoy friends, to fall in love, to hit a ball, and to bounce a baby. ~ Alistair Cooke
Actually, this seems to be the basic need of the human heart in nearly every great crisis – a good hot cup of coffee. ~ Alexander King
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