Crisis Impact Quotes

People tend to become cynical about even the most appalling crisis if it seems to be dragging on, failing to come to term.

The economic crisis has weakened the EU for years.

The value of catastrophic events is that they can help people face up to problems that are otherwise impossible to address.

Crisis or transition of any kind reminds us of what matters most. In the routine of life, we often take our families-our parents and children and siblings-for granted. But in times of danger and need and change, there is no question that what we care about most is our families! It will be even more so when we leave this life and enter into the spirit world. Surely the first people we will seek to find there will be father, mother, spouse, children, and siblings.

Henry Blodget says, "It is not clear what, if any, power and influence [Steven Lerner] currently wields. His main message - that Wall Street won the financial crisis, that inequality in this country is hitting record levels, and that there appears to be no other way to stop the trend - will almost certainly resonate."

Just as the financial crisis has created toxic assets and 'zombie' financial institutions, so has it transformed conservatism into a movement of the living dead.

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

The world economy today is recovering slowly, and there are still some destabilising factors and uncertainties. The underlying impact of the international financial crisis is far from over.

During the last few weeks I have felt that the Suez Canal was flowing through my drawing room.

In times of crisis, the incumbent suffers. And the bigger the crisis, the greater the punishment inflicted on those in power unless they do something that makes a change.

For me, what I see happening in this [clean water] crisis is deterioration of the family. It is deterioration of our health.

No single crisis shapes a generation; but a succession of events, each one bringing its shaping blows to bear.

What you say and do in a crisis matters.

Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.

There are people who say that if you are told that your house has fallen you don't ask what about the ceiling or what about the windows. The main thing is that this house, Africa, has fallen. Literature is just one aspect, pick any aspect of the situation.

When there is a crisis, how you handle the crisis is just as important as the crisis.

Even before the economic crisis in Greece there was no structure for making films - no proper industry, and the structure didn't help filmmakers at all. So filmmakers had to help each other, and make very, very low-budget films. Now with the crisis, things got a bit worse, but filmmakers are still going to be making films. It didn't change that much.