Quotes of: Midlife-crisis Keyword

Look at what President Kennedy managed to achieve during the Cuban missile crisis. If Bush had been president in 1962, do you think he would have avoided a nuclear war?

Bianca Jagger

There isn't a more important issue in the world than global warming. Even the Cold War and the Bay of Pigs crisis were a notional threat.

Simon Beaufoy

Henceforth the crisis of urbanism is all the more concretely a social and political one, even though today no force born of traditional politics is any longer capable of dealing with it. Medico-sociological banalities on the 'pathology of housing pro...

The Situationists and the City: A Reader

Sean looks up at her, and he wants to explain it all to her. Explain what it’s like to be rubbed so raw, to have your emotional threshold exceeded day after day, your psyche beaten so completely that you have no choice but to turn inward, shunning ...

Quarter Life Crisis: A Novel

The test of a progressive policy is not private but public, not just rising income and consumption for individuals, but widening the opportunities and what Amartya Sen calls the 'capabilities' of all through collective action. But that means, it must...

Eric J. Hobsbawm

For individuals and organizations alike, a reputation is far easier to destroy than it is to build.

Crisis, Issues and Reputation Management: A Handbook for PR and Communications Professionals

Faith is like automobile insurance. It need to be in place before there's a crisis.

Examine Your Faith!: Finding Truth in a World of Lies

When reason has followed its road to the end, the point of crisis is reached and man is brought to the great question mark over his own existence.

Faith and Understanding

Sometimes you need a little crisis to get your adrenaline flowing and help you realize your potential.

The Glass Castle

Though it doesn’t feel like it, crisis places us front and center of desire, which is the force of power.

Gift of the Dreamtime - Reader's Companion

Remember, action today can prevent a crisis tomorrow.

Becoming Your Best: The 12 Principles of Highly Successful Leaders

Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners.

Dirk Kempthorne

Democracy has always been in crisis: democracy is all about practicing the art of bearable dissatisfaction. In democratic societies, people often complain about their leaders and their institutions. The gap between the ideal democracy and the existin...

Ivan Krastev

... in moments of crisis our thoughts do not run consecutively but rather sweep over us in waves or intuition and experience ...

The Russia House

A light on my car’s dashboard came on, and instead of fixing the problem, I waited for the bulb to burn out. Crisis solved.

Sleepwalking is restercise

I admire great people who endure crisis and triumph over adversities of life.

Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

May 29, the Central Committee of the Sections goes into “permanent session” — what a fine, crisis-ridden sound it has, that term!

A Place of Greater Safety

The best way to begin genuine bipartisanship to make America stronger is to work together on the real crises facing our country, not to manufacture an artificial crisis to serve a special interest agenda out of touch with the needs of Americans.

John F. Kerry

I believed that our own public would keep this in mind even in this serious crisis, and stand firm if only we at the front continued to stand firm too.

Paul von Hindenburg

The greatest presidents have been those who demonstrated astute judgment in times of crisis - often despite the advice they were getting.

Robert Dallek

Meth production and use is a serious problem in Kentucky and across the country. Clearly, there is a growing need for a national strategy to combat this crisis. Increasing public awareness is a significant means for prevention.

Ron Lewis