Crisis Leads To Discovery Quotes & Sayings

We were like two people standing apart on separate mountain peaks, recklessly leaning forward to throw stones at one another, unaware of the dangerous chasm that separated us. — Amy Tan

Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit. — Bodhidharma

Our economic system and our planetary system are now at war. Or, more accurately, our economy is at war with many forms of life on earth, including human life. What the climate needs to avoid collapse is a contraction in humanity's use of resources; what our economic model demands to avoid collapse is unfettered expansion. Only one of these sets of rules can be changed, and it's not the laws of nature. — Naomi Klein

It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many stories or essays. Into a long, ambitious project you can fit or pour all you possess and learn. — Annie Dillard

Seek for a fresh invoice of grace. Unbelief can scoff or growl; faith is the nightingale that sings in the darkest hour. Faith can draw honey out of the rock and oil out of the flint. With Christ in possession and heaven in reversion, it marches to the time of the One-hundred-and-third Psalm over the roughest road, and against the most cutting blast. — Theodore L. Cuyler

On a selfish basis, I really enjoy sports and activity. — Alan Thicke

There are monsters among us, it's true. But there are heroes too. — Amie Kaufman

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds. — Sophocles

He was the tallest, thinnest, weariest boy I had ever seen in my life. He was brilliant. He had gorgeous brown eyes, and he had only two suits. He was completely unhappy, and I didn't know why. — J.D. Salinger

If you don't take professional pride in your work, you're probably in the wrong job. — Dedy Budiman

For most countries, serving the UN's objectives has never seemed worth even the smallest of risks. Member nations do not want a large, reputable, strong and independent United Nations, no matter their hypocritical pronouncements otherwise. What they want is a weak, beholden, indebted scapegoat of an organization, which they can blame for their failures or steal victories from. — Romeo Dallaire

The president is an actor, placed in power to smoothly deliver the corporations' lies. — Lauren Groff

Nobody would want to leave that film to go get high. — Ellen Burstyn