#isis

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#acts #almost #always #crisis #his

I think that if we don't get these politicians to come together we face the most predictable economic crisis in history. ↗

— Erskine Bowles

#crisis #economic #economic crisis #face #get

I like those crisis moments - if you're on top of it and don't get pulled under by panic and fear, it's a very bonding thing. ↗

— Bill Pullman

#crisis #fear #get #i #like

I think the IMF helped to detonate the Indonesian crisis. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#detonate #helped #i #i think #imf

I can't speak for all women, but I do think that... I mean, me and my girlfriends, we definitely... we're in crisis on a continuous basis...or at least monthly, for sure, I don't know. ↗

— Helen Slater

#continuous #crisis #definitely #girlfriends #i

I don't like the term mid-life crisis. ↗

— Pamela Stephenson

#i #life crisis #like #mid-life #mid-life crisis

I counted on sixty days only, but I held out for 133. I didn't go into power, but to get power I borrowed some power from the President and made him sign a number of decrees and give me enough power to create a system capable of handling crisis situations. ↗

— Aleksandr Lebed

#capable #counted #create #crisis #days

W polowie drogi mojego zywota posrod ciemnego znalazlem sie lasu. Las ten co gorsza byl zielony. ↗

— Witold Gombrowicz

#green-forest #middle-age-crisis #age

All three are hip-deep in midlife, when the eyes go and the waistline spreads and the city on the hill that shone so brightly in youth turns out to be more like a semi-incorporated town in the middle of a garbage strike. An age when a person can feel not so much himself as an inexplicably inferior version of himself. ↗

— Mary McNamara

#age

In an earlier age, it might have been possible to believe that goodness would prevail over pride, but not anymore. The proud could be proud with impunity, because there was nobody to contradict him in his pride and because narcissism was no longer considered a vice. That was what the whole cult of celebrity was about, she thought; and we fêted these people and fed their vanity. ↗

— Alexander McCall Smith

#narcisissism #pride #vanity #age