Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

Every crisis has within it, opportunity. Every crisis has within it, danger.

We don't know what may yet happen to us, what military and political defeats we may yet have to face.

Life is good, and there's no reason to think it won't be--right up until the moment when everything explodes into a fireball of tiny, unrecognizable fragments, or it all goes skidding sideways, through the guardrail, over the embankment, and down the mountain. This will happen (and probably more than once).

Even without wars, life is dangerous.

The roof might fall in; anything could happen.

The minute you think you've got it made, disaster is just around the corner.

The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.

Very low probability events occur very rarely, but sometimes they do happen.

Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.

You don't have smooth sailing in the American system no matter who's in charge.

Don’t ignore planning for unlikely events. Over long periods of time the highly improbable gets more probable to occur at least once.

The Nation trembled on the brink. Events moved with such speed that it was necessary to decide to act on the instant, as each successive crisis arose.

There are no second chances in the volatile Middle East.

We live in very, very, very dangerous times.

There's just no real job security when you're shooting a show about an apocalypse, and anybody could die at any time.

Albania is at risk and we are living in difficult times.

For many Europeans the next decade looks to be filled with threats rather than opportunities.

Any American who has spent time in Iraq or Afghanistan will tell you: the closer you get, the less certain you are of anything. If you are in Iraq, if you are in Afghanistan, everything is ambiguous. Everything is murky and gray and uncertain and possibly lethal.

He that's secure is not safe.

There's horror in your life, believe me, whether it's coming, or you've just been lucky to miss it today.

As our expedition to New York seems likely to be attended with a very fatal Consequence, and ourselves haply censured for undertaking it without assurance of success.

People don't seem to understand that it's a damn war out there.

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.

One of the things that has been very difficult in Libya is the sense of uncertainty - the sense that they haven't actually finished the revolution, that there was still a great deal of uncertainty. That uncertainty has made Libya harder for business in terms of oil and other things as well.

The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.