Wolfgang Schauble Quotes

A move to a different town or school gives us new places to explore, new people to meet; a lost pet means we have to organize a careful search; baby-sitting requires looking out for dangers a young child can't foresee; a car crash or fire demands that we get help immediately.

My life has been a series of emergencies.

After the first ball is bowled, it's only chaos. What you are trying to do is you're trying to manage the chaos. It's not like a script that happens.

I think we live in a constant state of emergency.

When the house is on fire, don't tell me what your spiritual gift is. Just grab a hose and put out the fire.

Being mayor of New York was a crisis a week and an emergency every other day.

There's always a lot happening. I mean, that's the thing about politics: it's just one damn thing after another!

The time when people really want government is in an emergency.

In the pandemonium of the crisis in New Orleans, somehow getting people on busses took priority over keeping them alive.

The great problem now is that we don’t know what to do.

When your house is on fire—that is not the time to talk

Destiny and history are untidy.

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.

The challenge in a startup is you hit a lot of turbulence, and you want people who understand that it's just turbulence and not a crisis.

When there's a firestorm going on around you, you have very little idea of what's next.

When you're in a crisis, there's really no playbook.

My normal is craziness - moving around and jumping from team to team and having to get used to different guys in a short period of time.

When your house is burning down, you don't worry about the remodeling.

Please relax," said the voice pleasantly, like a stewardess in an airliner with only one wing and two engines one of which is on fire, "you are perfectly safe.

One of the things is that in times of severe disorder, you can't worry about the dead, only the living.

Professor,” Harry gasped. “Your bird — I couldn’t do anything — he just caught fire —

... an era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age.

These are mad times, but there have been a lot of mad times in the world.

We are now cruising at a level of two to the power of twenty-five thousand to one against and falling, and we will be restoring normality just as soon as we are sure what is normal anyway.