James A. Forbes Quotes

In times of crisis, the world looks to Britain not just for our work on the ground, but also for our leadership.

In times of crisis, it is of the utmost importance that one does not lose her head. Marie Antoinette

Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation.

He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.

I like those crisis moments - if you're on top of it and don't get pulled under by panic and fear, it's a very bonding thing.

New diseases like SARS and bird flu cause anxiety in the community. People get worried, some to the extent that it even affects their health. You feel very sad, and yet you must carry on and maintain your cool in very trying and difficult moments. You have to tough it out.

When my mother died, my father was in a crisis, my sister was in a crisis, everyone was in a crisis. I went round the night my mother was lying in the kitchen, and I organised everything, from the undertaker to the funeral... I looked after everybody, I sorted it all out and I've done so ever since.

The Mexican succumbs very easily to sentimental effusions, and therefore he shuns them.

I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.

Panic causes tunnel vision. Calm acceptance of danger allows us to more easily assess the situation and see the options.

Having no emotions is the most difficult, to tone it down.

Courage does not mean not fearing or not grieving. It does mean recognizing and resisting terror management right away, from the moment of the attack, precisely when it seems most difficult to do so.

In real life, I don't cry too easily. I go numb.

Diego Costa doesn't show any emotion. I am more emotional. So I have learned to control my emotions.

I don't want sadness or happiness to affect my life.

Of course, fighting is one of the most emotional things that you can possibly do. You have to constantly deal with your emotions, especially myself. I have so many that that's where I get my energy from. But it's a matter of controlling them, and yeah, I just don't let nothing affect me.

She was stronger alone; and her own good sense so well supported her, that her firmness was as unshaken, her appearance of cheerfulness as invariable, as, with regrets so poignant and so fresh, it was possible for them to be.

Anger is too pathetic. Anger is as weak as fear.

You don't have to be kind. You have to be calm. Once you start showing that people can affect your emotions, then you obviously don't have that much power. If a stewardess can affect your emotional life, then you don't have any power in life and you just showed your whole hand.

Intensity makes you stronger. Emotionalism makes you weaker.

I don't cry in real life. I'm just pretty light and I don't get too heavy.

If all it takes is an angry stranger to ruin your day, what are you going to do if something really serious happens? Why give someone else control of your life like that?

Yes, this is a dangerous time. Yes, this is a time full of shadows and fear. But we have been through worse before and we have faced more difficult days before. We have shown courage and determination, and skillful and inventive and courageous and committed responses to crisis before.

No tears, please. It's a waste of good suffering.

Nothing is to be feared but fear itself. Nothing grievous but to yield to grief.