"There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes."

Crisis, Fear, Atheism, Danger, Faith

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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

"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

"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

"The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity."

John F. Kennedy, American President

Crisis, Danger, Opportunity, Awareness

"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

"The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow."

H. G. Wells, English Author

Crisis, Today, Tomorrow

"Crisis is Good. Crisis is a Messenger."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Crisis, Truth, Inspirational, Wisdom, Power

"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

"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

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

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy."

Woman

"Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness."

History

"The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise."

History

"I went for years not finishing anything. Because of course when you finish something you can be judged.... I had poems which were rewritten so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out."

Creativity

"I guess the thing that I'm most proud of is that I kept on writing poetry. I understand that poetry is sort of the source of everything I do. It's the source of my creativity."

Poetry

"Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life."

Liberation

"Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world."

Marriage

"If every day I dare to remember that I am here on loan that this house this hillside these minutes are all leased to me not given I will never despair."

Gratitude

"Beware of the man who denounces woman writers, his penis is tiny and he cannot spell."

Feminism

"She died of internal weeping."

Grief