Magna Carta has become totemic. It is in the comedy of Tony Hancock, in the poetry of Kipling, never far from the front pages in a constitutional crisis. – Melvyn Bragg
Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn’t make any difference what the crisis is. – Jack Nicklaus
The mid-life crisis is just those times when you’re not so into the things you were when you were younger. – Jay Kay
Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis. – Jill Lepore
Life and families and babies are all joyous gifts. But if we do not begin to truly account for our numbers, we will surely create an ecological crisis that will only lead to anguish and despair. – Jason Alexander
I believe that it is irresponsible, it is basically part of the crisis of leadership in D.C. to not look at Social Security and understand that there has got to be a solution posed. We’ve got to take a look at it and make sure that we create a solution so our seniors aren’t left out in the cold. – Joe Miller
In a crisis, markets always look to see who is the next-worst off and proactively begin shying away from them. – Jose Ferreira
Close scrutiny will show that most ‘crisis situations’ are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are. – Maxwell Maltz
Here comes 40. I’m feeling my age and I’ve ordered the Ferrari. I’m going to get the whole mid-life crisis package. – Keanu Reeves
When children arrive, or when some crisis occurs, couples don’t have the resources to deal with it because they’ve been so busy getting on with their lives. They haven’t learned how to sit down and discuss things. – Janet McTeer
I had moved back to Kenya after undergrad, and I went through this crisis of, ‘What is my life going to be about?’ – Lupita Nyong’o
The average ordinary citizen can do a lot of different things when it comes to the climate crisis. – Lawrence Bender
In fighting the debt crisis, E.U. countries have enhanced co-operation and carried out reform with tremendous courage. This is laudable. – Li Keqiang
Kennedy was haunted by the Bay of Pigs invasion but carried the country through the Cuban Missile Crisis. He later increased the number of U.S. military advisers to South Vietnam to more than 16,000. – Kitty Kelley
Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden’s humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower. – Kate Williams
Americans’ perceptions of Africa remain rooted in troubling stereotypes of helplessness and perpetual crisis. – John Prendergast
It’s true across the U.K. that those who had least to do with causing the economic crisis are carrying the heaviest burden. That’s unacceptable. – Johann Lamont
In reality drilling is the slowest, dirtiest, and most expensive way to solve our energy crisis. – Lois Capps
The issue with international institutions is that there is a crisis of legitimacy. Trust in these institutions is a serious problem. – Mo Ibrahim
With the lessons taken from the financial crisis in 1997, the Republic of Korea has been able to surmount the global economic crisis rather successfully. – Lee Myung-bak
There is no better illustration of that crisis than the fact that the president is openly violating our nation’s laws by authorizing the NSA to engage in warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens. – John Conyers
If Carter had been there when the AIDS crisis came up, it would have been a whole different story. It could have been treated like a legitimate disease. – Jean O’Leary
Most people feel that they are the heroes of their own lives and that they’re good people. So if they’re in a crisis, they feel an understandable urge to set out their own version of events. – Louis Theroux
The country is facing a fiscal crisis, and the United States Senate is at the center of the debate about how to bring federal spending under control. – Jeff Flake
