Quotes Primer Prompts TOC

Crises

Crossroads, emergency, strait, turning point, zero hour

QUOTES

The die is cast.
 JuliusCaesar
 crossing the Rubicon, -50

We have the wolf by the ears; and we can neither hold him nor let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.
 Thomas Jefferson
 1820

Comin' in on a wing and a prayer.
 Harold Adamson
 song title, 1943

For it is your business, when the wall next door catches fire.
 Horace
 -20

See Also

References

History
  • Valley Forge
  • Staligrad and D-Day
  • Genghis Khan at the gates of Vienna 1220
  • Arab invasion of Europe; Battle of Tours 732
  • Stock Market crash 1929
  • Panic of 1893
  • Fall of Constantinople 1453

    Arts & Science

  • The Armory Show 1913
  • Caravaggio's use of light

    Literature

  • Invention of moveable type by Gutenberg




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