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“It isn't the big troubles in life that require character. Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh - I really think that requires spirit. It's the kind of character that I am going to develop. I am going to pretend that all life is just a game which I must play as skillfully and fairly as I can. If I lose, I am going to shrug my shoulders and laugh - also if I win.”

Ifs Thinking Kind I Can Play Character Bigs Faces Life Is Spirit Games Winning Loses Laughing Trouble Tragedy Crisis Shoulders Crush Petty Hazards Troubles In Life

Book:Daddy-Long-Legs

Source: Daddy-Long-Legs

“That's something I've noticed about food: whenever there's a crisis if you can get people to eating normally things get better.”

People Ifs Food Eating Crisis Cooking Get Better Culinary

Book:The Moon by Night

Source: The Moon by Night

“I finally figured out that not every crisis can be managed. As much as we want to keep ourselves safe, we can't protect ourselves from everything. If we want to embrace life, we also have to embrace chaos.”

Ifs Want Protect Safe Crisis Embrace Chaos Embrace Life

Author:Susan Elizabeth Phillips

“Was there happiness at the end [of the movie], they wanted to know. If someone were to ask me today whether the story of Hassan, Sohrab, and me ends with happiness, I wouldn't know what to say. Does anybody's? After all, life is not a Hindi movie. Zendagi migzara, Afghans like to say: Life goes on, undmindful of beginning, en, kamyab, nah-kam, crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis.”

Ifs Knows Doe Ends Stories Today Wanted Moving Life Is Asks Goes On Crisis Moving Forward Ask Me Life Goes On Hindi Catharsis Caravans Hassan Hindi Movie

Book:The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set

Source: The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set

“Even if we could grow our way out of the crisis and delay the inevitable and painful reconciliation of virtual and real wealth, there is the question of whether this would be a wise thing to do. Marginal costs of additional growth in rich countries, such as global warming, biodiversity loss and roadways choked with cars, now likely exceed marginal benefits of a little extra consumption. The end result is that promoting further economic growth makes us poorer, not richer.”

“You know, Miss Holly, you look very dramatic like that, backlit by the fire. Very attractive, if I may say so. I know you shared a moment passionne with Artemis which he subsequently fouled up with his typical boorish behavior. Let me just throw something out there for you to consider while we're chasing the probe: I share Artemis's passion but not his boorishness. No pressure; just think about it. This was enough to elicit a deafening moment of silence even in the middle of a crisis, which Orion seemed to be blissfully unaffected by.”

“Sometimes we need a personal crisis to reinforce in our minds what we really value and cherish. The scriptures are filled with examples of people facing crises before learning how to better serve God and others. Perhaps if you, too, search your hearts and courageously assess the priorities in your life, you may discover, as I did, that you need a better balance among your priorities.”

People Ifs Needs Mind Heart May Sometimes Values Example Balance Crisis Filled Priorities Scripture Cherish Serving God

Author:M. Russell Ballard

“The times are too difficult and the crisis too severe to indulge in schadenfreude. Looking at it in perspective, the fact that there would be a financial crisis was perfectly predictable: its general nature, if not its magnitude. Markets are always inefficient.”

Ifs Facts Would Be Difficult Perspective Crisis Financial Severe Indulge Predictable Magnitude Indulge In Financial Crisis Schadenfreude

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Over the years I have learned that when I need answers to deal with crises, people, and issues, I must go to God. God will help us in everything we do if we stay in tune and if we will call on him. We must each plan our future with him in our homes, our families, and our relationships with others. If we make him our senior partner, our lives can be successful.”

“If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind. Each crisis seems final, simply because it is new. We are told that the oldest inhabitants in Peru do not cease to be agitated by the earthquakes, but they probably see beyond each shock, and reflect that there are plenty more to come.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Seems Age Lasts Emotion Youth Seasons Crisis Finals Cease Plenty Shock Hopeful Resolve Elders Parting Earthquakes Peru

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“I couldn’t move. It’s something I’m still ashamed of. You always wonder how you’ll handle a moment of crisis; if you’ve got what it takes to fight or if you’ve just been deluding yourself all along that somewhere deep inside you there’s steel beneath the magnolia. Now I knew the truth. There wasn’t. I was all petals and pollen. Good for attracting the procreators who could ensure the survival of our species, but not a survivor myself. I was Barbie after all.”

Ifs Stills Moments Moving Fighting Wonder Survival Crisis Species Handle Ashamed Survivor Steel Petals Deep Inside Barbie Magnolias Pollen

Author:Karen Marie Moning

“The moment of crisis had come, and I must face it. My old fears, my diffidence, my shyness, my hopeless sense of inferiority, must be conquered now and thrust aside. If I failed now I should fail forever.”

Ifs Should Moments Faces Fear Forever Failing Crisis Hopeless Thrust Shyness Inferiority Diffidence

Author:Daphne du Maurier

“Our lips met hungrily, and his clever artistic hands wrapped around my hips. A sudden buzz from my regular cell phone startled me from the kissing. "Don't," said Adrian, his eyes ablaze and breathing ragged. "What if there's a crisis at school?" I asked. "What if Angeline 'accidentally' stole one of the campus buses and drove it into the library?" "Why would she do that?" "Are you saying she wouldn't?" He sighed. "Go check it.”

Ifs Said Hands Eye School Mets Kissing Crisis Library Lips Phones Clever Checks Cells Artistic Hips Breathing His Eyes What If Bus Cell Phone Campus Buzz Ragged Angeline Dawes

Author:Richelle Mead

“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.”

Ifs Philosophy Peace Decision Changed Life Philosophy Depends Crisis Incidents Ubuntu

Author:Jeannette Rankin

“The real crisis of worship today is not that the preaching is paltry or that it's too drafty in church. It is that people have no sense of the presence of God, and if they have no sense of His presence, how can they be moved to express the deepest feelings of their souls to honor, revere, worship, and glorify God?”

People Ifs Real Soul Feelings Today Church Honor Worship Crisis Moved Preaching Glorify Presence Of God Deepest Feelings

Book:How Then Shall We Worship?: Biblical Principles to Guide Us Today

Source: How Then Shall We Worship?: Biblical Principles to Guide Us Today

“Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is All striving is vain, will never reign supreme, for the impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race. Moral creeds which speak to that impulse will be widely successful in spite of inconsistency, vagueness, and shadowy determination of expectancy. Man needs a rule for his will, and will invent one if one be not given him.”

Source: Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays

“The crisis of our diminishing water resources is just as severe (if less obviously immediate) as any wartime crisis we have ever faced. Our survival is just as much at stake as it was at the time of Pearl Harbor, or the Argonne, or Gettysburg, or Saratoga.”

Ifs Water Survival Resources Rain Rivers Crisis Stakes Severe Pearls Harbors Wartime Water Resources Gettysburg Water Crisis

Book:The Coming Water Famine

Source: The Coming Water Famine

“Therefore, if one were to consider that there was virtually no possibility of success through the US-Japan negotiations, the military and economic pressures would only force Japan into further crisis if time were allowed to pass in vain.”

Ifs Success Force Economic Military Possibility Pressure Crisis Vain Japan Negotiation Congratulations

Author:Hideki Tojo

“God, the source of our knowledge, has been expelled from the classroom. He gives us His greatest blessing, life, and yet many would condone the taking of innocent life. We expect Him to protect us in a crisis, but turn away from Him too often in our day-to-day living. I wonder if He isn't waiting for us to wake up.”

Source: Speaking my mind: selected speeches

“If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.”

Ifs Soul Moments Spiritual Practice Crisis Spiritual Practice

Book:The Gum Thief: A Novel

Source: The Gum Thief: A Novel

“Military force is irrelevant to many of the most urgent threats we face. If we are to solve our myriad domestic problems and revitalize our economy we need to be more selective about our involvement in foreign crises large and small.”

Ifs Needs Problem Faces Force Economy Military Crisis Threat Iraq Solve Irrelevant Urgent Involvement Selective Military Force

Author:William Hartung

“Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand virtually alone in accomplishing this mission. No committee decides who may enter, no crisis of body or spirit must accompany the entrant. No tuition is charged, no oath sworn, no visa demanded. Of the monuments humans build for themselves, very few say - touch me, use me, my hush is not indifference, my space is not barrier. If I inspire awe, it is because I am in awe of you and the possibilities that dwell in you.”

“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.”

Ifs Moments Crisis Panic Bonding

Author:Bill Pullman

“Even if we act immediately, the world is doomed to lose many of its animal and plant species and this inturn will reduce the ability of ecosystems to deliver vital services to human populations. The Red List gives all of us a practical tool for raising awareness of the biodiversity crisis and for forging new partnerships within the international community.”

“There exists ample authority under which population growth could be regulated...It has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society.”

Ifs Has Beens Law Growth Authority Constitution Crisis Climate Change Including Population Abortion Global Warming Severe Compulsory Population Growth Population Control

Author:John Holdren

“The Lord is in control. He knows the end from the beginning. He has given us adequate instruction that, if followed, will see us safely through any crisis. His purposes will be fulfilled, and someday we will understand the eternal reasons for all of these events. Therefore, today we must be careful to not overreact, nor should we be caught up in extreme preparations, but what we must do is keep the commandments of God and never loose hope!”

“If we did not take action to solve this crisis, it could indeed threaten the future of human civilization. That sounds shrill. It sounds hard to accept. I believe it's deadly accurate. But again, we can solve it.”

Ifs Believe Humans Hard Action I Believe Sound Accepting Environment Civilization Crisis Solve Accurate Human Civilization

Author:Al Gore

“War and famine would not do. Instead, disease offered the most efficient and fastest way to kill the billions that must soon die if the population crisis is to be solved. AIDS is not an efficient killer because it is too slow. My favorite candidate for eliminating 90 percent of the world's population is airborne Ebola (Ebola Reston), because it is both highly lethal and it kills in days, instead of years. "We've got airborne diseases with 90 percent mortality in humans. Killing humans. Think about that. "You know, the bird flu's good, too. For everyone who survives, he will have to bury nine”

“The 'environmental crisis' has happened because the human household or economy is in conflict at almost every point with the household of nature. We have built our household on the assumption that the natural household is simple and can be simply used. We have assumed increasingly over the last five hundred years that nature is merely a supply of 'raw materials,' and that we may safely possess those materials by taking them.... And so we will be wrong if we attempt to correct what we perceive as 'environmental' problems without correcting the economic oversimplification that caused them.”

Source: What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth

“The mind is everything. If you don’t believe you can do something then you can’t. If you believe that your upbringing was substandard and therefore you have to walk around as a refugee from that crisis situation for the rest of your life, forever bearing the burden of that experience then that will be YOUR life.”

Ifs Mind Believe Can Do Walks Situation Forever Crisis Don't Believe Burden Refugee Rest Of Your Life If You Believe Upbringing Can Do Something Believe You Can

Author:Kai Greene

“If we are going to be wise, spiritual people prepared to meet the crises of our age, we must be a studying, learning community that values the life of the mind”

People Ifs Mind Age Spiritual Values Community Study Wise Crisis Prepared Being Wise

Book:Love Your God with All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul

Source: Love Your God with All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul

“We're in crisis mode as black actresses. It's not only in the sheer number of roles that are offered and that are out there, but the quality of the roles. The quality - and therein lies the problem. We're in deprivation mode because me, Alfre and Phylicia, we're in the same category. Whereas if you take a Caucasian actress, you have the one who are the teens, in their 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s - they're all different. There are roles for each of them. But you only have two or three categories for black actresses.”

Ifs Two Different Problem Lying Three Black Numbers Quality Roles Crisis Actresses Categories Teens Sheer Deprivation Caucasian

Author:Viola Davis

“If it's not accepted that big government, fiat money, ignoring liberty, central economic planning, welfarism, and warfarism caused our crisis, we can expect a continuous and dangerous march toward corporatism and even fascism with even more loss of our liberties.”

Ifs Bigs Government Loss Liberty Economic Dangerous Crisis Accepted Planning March Fascism Big Government Corporatism

Author:Ron Paul

“I had a moment a few years ago where I wasn't sure if I was acting for myself or because people expected it of me. A bit of a crisis of faith, I suppose. I did some soul-searching, took a break and decided I was going to live my life only for me.”

People Ifs Years Soul Moments Bits Acting Break Years Ago Decided Crisis Expected Living My Life Soul Searching

Author:Adelaide Kane

“The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.”

“If the federal government is truly serious about doing something with the AIDS virus, we need to take steps that would isolate the carriers of this plague.... It is difficult to understand the public policy towards AIDS. It is the first time in the history of civilization in which the carriers of a genuine plague have not been isolated from the general population, and in which this deadly disease for which there is no cure is being treated as a civil rights issue instead of the true health crisis it represents.”

“If you had to explain America's economic success with one word, that word would be "education".... Until now, the results of educational neglect have been gradual - a slow-motion erosion of America's relative position. But things are about to get much worse, as the economic crisis ... deals a severe blow to education across the board.... We need to wake up and realize that one of the keys to our nation's historic success is now a wasting asset. Education made America great; neglect of education can reverse the process.”

“Isn't food important? Why not "universal food coverage"? If politicians and employers had guaranteed us "free" food 50 years ago, today Democrats would be wailing about the "food crisis" in America, and you'd be on the phone with your food care provider arguing about whether or not a Reuben sandwich with fries was covered under your plan.”

“What I am concerned about in this fast-moving world in a time of crises, both in foreign and domestic affairs, is not so much a program as a spirit of approach, not so much a mind as a heart. A program lives today and dies tomorrow. A mind, if it be open, may change with each new day, but the spirit and the heart are as unchanging as the tides.”

Ifs World Mind Heart May Today Moving Spirit Dies Tomorrow Approach Concerned Program Crisis Affair Tides New Day Live For Today Unchanging Times Of Crisis Each New Day

Author:Owen D. Young

“If we use resources productively and take to heart the lessons learned from coping with the energy crisis, we face a future confronted only, as Pogo, once said, by insurmountable opportunities. The many crises facing us should be seen, then, not as threats, but as chances to remake the future so it serves all beings.”

“I have to be honest with you. Islam is on very thin ice with me... Through our screaming self-pity and our conspicuous silences, we Muslims are conspiring against ourselves. We're in crisis and we're dragging the rest of the world with us. If ever there was a moment for an Islamic reformation, it's now. For the love of God, what are we doing about it?”

Ifs World Self Moments Silence Honest Crisis Islam Pity Ice Being Honest God Love Islamic Reformation Self Pity Conspiring

Author:Irshad Manji

“In the United States of America, unfortunately we still live in a bubble of unreality. And the Category 5 denial is an enormous obstacle to any discussion of solutions. Nobody is interested in solutions if they don’t think there’s a problem. Given that starting point, I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis.”

“If global warming is not contained, the West will face a choice of a refugee crisis of unimaginable proportions, or direct complicity in crimes against humanity.”

Ifs Faces Humanity Choices Crime Direct Crisis West Climate Proportion Global Warming Refugee Unimaginable Complicity Refugee Crisis Crimes Against Humanity

Author:George Monbiot

“In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. From time to time we've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else? All of us together, in and out of government, must bear the burden.”

People Ifs Believe Wells Self Problem Government Together President Groups Bears Capable Solutions Capacity Crisis Complexes Burden Superiors Elites Tempted Governing

Author:Ronald Reagan

“But, sir, the great cause of complaint now is the slavery question, and the questions growing out of it. If there is any other cause of complaint which has been influential in any quarter, to bring about the crisis which is now upon us; if any State or any people have made the troubles growing out of this question, a pretext for agitation instead of a cause of honest complaint, Virginia can have no sympathy whatever, in any such feeling, in any such policy, in any such attempt. It is the slavery question. Is it not so?”

People Ifs Has Beens Made War States Feelings Causes Growing Trouble Honest Policy Crisis Slavery Civil War Quarters Complaints Influential Virginia Pretext Agitation No Sympathy

Author:John Brown Baldwin

“There is really no crisis except an artificial one...If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the trouble will come to an end.”

People Ifs War Ends Sides Lines Trouble Crisis Civil War Temper Artificial Both Sides Great American

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“Character cannot be summoned at the moment of crisis if it has been squandered by years of compromise and rationalization. The only testing ground for the heroic is the mundane. The only preparation for that one profound decision which can change a life, or even a nation, is those hundreds of half-conscious, self defining, seemingly insignificant decisions made in private. Habit is the daily battleground of character.”

“Perhaps peace is not, after all, something you work for, or 'fight for.' It is indeed 'fighting for peace' that starts all the wars. What, after all, are the pretexts of all these Cold War crises, but 'fighting for peace?' Peace is something you have or do not have. If you are yourself at peace, then there is at least some peace in the world. Then share your peace with everyone, and everyone will be at peace.”

Ifs World War Fighting Share Cold Crisis Cold War Pretext

Author:Thomas Merton

“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.”

Ifs Mind Fronts Serious Crisis Firm Stand Firm

Book:Out of My Life

Source: Out of My Life

“Some think that by preparing to deal with crises you make them more likely. I think the wiser judgment is the contrary. In this area at least, if you want peace or stability, it's better to prepare for war or instability”

Ifs Thinking Want War Deals Judgment Areas Crisis Contrary Stability Wiser Preparing Instability

Author:Timothy Geithner

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