"Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out."

Crisis, Day, Living

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"Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out."

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"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."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

Crisis, Practice, Spiritual

"I'm trying to keep your safe!" Puck exploded, whirling on me. His eyes feverish, and I shrank back. "This isn't a game, Meghan! The shit is about to hit the fan, and you're right in the middle of it without knowing enough to duck!"

Julie Kagawa, American Author

Crisis, Protection, Danger, Urgency, Responsibility

"Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order."

Christopher Lasch, American Historian

Crisis, Effect, Order, Rhetoric

"Crisis is what suppressed pain looks like, it always comes to the surface. It shakes you into reflection and healing."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Crisis, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Life

"The purpose of this lectchoor is to let you know where we are. We are in the deep cack. It couldn't be worse if it was raining arseholes. Any questions?"

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Crisis, Humor, Truth, Regret, Power

"The epitome of our life force turns on the seam where our tempered idealistic expectations meet the annealed exigencies fueling the cataclysm of a pressing personal crisis. Many of us do not decipher who we are and what we truly cherish until we experience the terror of an inconsolable loss. Failure and suffering lead to self-scrutiny."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

Crisis, Life, Force, Expectation

"The Industrial Revolution appears to be in its final stages and it will be remembered as a time where industrial stock markets were at historic highs at the same time that many natural processes were shutting down, including the next generation of humans."

Steven Magee, British Author

Crisis, Economy, Nature, History, Future

"There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes."

Erica Jong, American Novelist

Crisis, Fear, Atheism, Danger, Faith

"While Social Security faces some long-term challenges, the system is not in crisis."

Chaka Fattah, American Politician

Crisis, Faces, Security

"I was in the middle of a crossroads, which is a nice way of saying crisis, physically, emotionally and spiritually. You know the physical part. We just talked about it."

Star Jones, American Entertainer

Crisis, Saying

Explore more quotes by Anton Chekhov

"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."

Light

"You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you."

Morality

"I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man."

Life

"Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit."

Time

"Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable."

Happiness

"It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook."

Woman

"For the salvation of his soul the Muslim digs a well. It would be a fine thing if each of us were to leave behind a school, or a well, or something of the sort, so that life would not pass by and retreat into eternity without a trace."

Philanthropy

"To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God."

God

"Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too."

Difference

"He had two lives: one, open, seen and known by all who cared to know, full of relative truth and of relative falsehood, exactly like the lives of his friends and acquaintances; and another life running its course in secret. And through some strange, perhaps accidental, conjunction of circumstances, everything that was essential, of interest and of value to him, everything in which he was sincere and did not deceive himself, everything that made the kernel of his life, was hidden from other people."

Self