quotes about Emergencies
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
-- Abraham Verghese -
In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
-- Abraham Verghese -
She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
-- Abraham Verghese -
So when you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there's always madness. Madness is the emergency exit.
-- Alan Moore -
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No one realized that the pumps that delivered fuel to the emergency generators were electric.
-- Angel Feliciano -
I'm pretty good at remaining calm during an emergency. My house burned down when I was 12, which made me really pragmatic about what needed to be done. But I can be bad in that I compartmentalize a lot of emotions and push them away to deal with them at a later date.
-- Anne Hathaway -
Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
-- Annie Dillard -
This is really the common mentality of prisoners: they read with great attention all the articles that deal with illnesses and send away for treatises and "be your own doctor" or "emergency treatments" and end up by discovering that they have at least 300 or 400 illnesses, whose symptoms they are experiencing.
-- Antonio Gramsci -
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The international community must offer short-term emergency measures to meet critical needs. But it must also make longer-term investments to promote food production and agricultural development, enhance food security and maintain and accelerate momentum towards the MDGs.
-- Ban Ki-moon -
The moment one abandons the idea that he was born to discover what is right and enforce it upon the rest of the world, he begins to feel an increasing disposition to let others alone and to refrain even from retaliation or resistance except in those emergencies which immediately and imperatively require it.
-- Benjamin TuckerSource : Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1893). “Instead of a Book”, Ayer Company Pub
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If you took your child to the dentist and check for cavities, the child likely won't get them. If you take them just for emergency, that's all they're gonna get.
-- Bill Cosby -
I feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature, but we have to. It's an emergency.
-- Bjork -
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The governor has a role in terms of declaring a state of emergency.
-- Bob BuckhornSource : "Starting Point with Soledad O'Brien", www.cnn.com. August 24, 2012.
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sometimes in life doing what we shouldn't do is the emergency
-- Bryce Courtenay -
Friends aren't jumper cables. You don't throw them into the trunk and pull them out for emergencies.
-- Charlie Krueger -
Anytime a large, emergency spending bill makes its way through Congress, the potential for mischief is great.
-- Chris Chocola -
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If you're not paying for it through the health plan, you pay for it in the emergency room.
-- David Lehman -
Probably" is a word with an emergency ejector seat.
-- David Mitchell -
But on second thought, after I decreed the state of emergency, I came to the conclusion that that was impossible to achieve without bloodshed because the street protesters were full of anger and nearly out of control. This is why I thought we needed to find another way out.
-- Eduard Shevardnadze -
Margaret had always dreaded lest her courage should fail her in any emergency, and she should be proved to be, what she dreaded lest she was--a coward. But now, in this real great time of reasonable fear and nearness of terror, she forgot herself, and felt only an intense sympathy--intense to painfulness--in the interests of the moment.
-- Elizabeth Gaskell -
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Out of the way! We are in the throes of an exceptional emergency! This is no occassion for sport- there is lace at stake!" (Ms. Pole)
-- Elizabeth Gaskell -
The emergencies you train for almost never happen. It's the one you can't train for that kills you.
-- Ernest K. Gann -
I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
-- Felix Baumgartner -
'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
-- Friedrich August von HayekSource : "Law, Legislation and Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek. Volume 3: "The Political Order of a Free People". Chapter 17: "A Model Constitution", 1973.
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Watch out for emergencies. They are your big chance.
-- Fritz Reiner -
Once a kata has been learned, it must be practised repeatedly until it can be applied in an emergency, for knowledge of just the sequence of a kata in karate is useless.
-- Gichin Funakoshi -
When you're managing an emergency department, you're trying to keep everybody calm, so when an emergency comes in the door, everyone can do their best work.
-- Glen Mazzara -
I never really drove a cab, but I do have a hack license in case of emergencies - like no money.
-- Harry Chapin -
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Real Friends' are someone who are right next to you when you got in emergency, not in only parties.
-- Hiroko Sakai -
Guard units in the U.S. are suffering severe equipment shortages which will affect their ability to respond to emergencies in their home States, such as Katrina
-- Ike Skelton -
Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis. Conservatives have their place in the piping times of peace; but in emergencies only rugged issue men amount to much.
-- James A. Garfield -
Care shouldn't start in the emergency room.
-- James Douglas, Lord of Douglas -
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It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.
-- James Russell Lowell -
In a world full of competing emergencies and disasters, it really helps if there is an international locomotive that can help us bring attention - help us bring resources.
-- Jan EgelandSource : IRIN Interview, www.irinnews.org. December 9, 2004.
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By defining the problem as 'hunger', the emergency food system is helping to direct our attention away from the more fundamental problem of poverty, and the even more basic problem of inequality.
-- Janet PoppendieckSource : Janet Poppendieck (1999). “Sweet Charity?: Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement”, p.305, Penguin
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You either trust me or you don't. I've never let you down, and I won't walk away unless you make me. Period. Now, unless you have a real emergency, I'd like to get back to my vacation. And my corpse, thanks.
-- Jeaniene Frost -
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Birth is not an emergency. It is simply an emergence.
-- Jeannine Parvati Baker -
Arsenal have a goalkeeper emergency at the moment. I'll gladly step in.
-- Jens Lehmann -
If we don't change, millions of American families are just one medical emergency, or one layoff, away from financial disaster and bankruptcy.
-- Jim Cooper -
Make the best of an emergency.
-- John Singer SargentSource : Trevor J. Fairbrother, John Singer Sargent (2000). “John Singer Sargent: The Sensualist”, p.219, Yale University Press
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It is unfair for our hospitals to bear a hugely disproportionate burden for mandated emergency health treatment for illegal aliens.
-- Jon Kyl -
She wants to know if I love her, that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet.
-- Jonathan Safran FoerSource : Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.130, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
-- Jonathan Swift -
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Death is losing its terror. It is the emergency exit for a world that is becoming more frightening death ever was.
-- Julian Green -
Full emergency power to the engines. Ram the Blade ship.
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The public should always be notified as soon as possible in the event of a leak or other emergency at a nuclear facility.
-- Ken Calvert -
We're talking about really vital services to people who are already in a terrible situation and really in need of emergency services -- and there aren't alternatives.
-- Kim GandySource : "Congress Helps Air Travelers, Ignores Victims of Rape and Domestic Violence" by Tim Murphy, www.motherjones.com. May 6, 2013.
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My life has been a series of emergencies.
-- Lana TurnerSource : "The Golden Girls of MGM: Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Lana Turner, Judy Garland, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly and Others". Book by Jane Ellen Wayne, 2003.
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The emergency problem of segregation and sterilization must be faced immediately. Every feeble-minded girl or woman of the hereditary type, especially of the moron class, should be segregated during the reproductive periodwe prefer the policy of immediate sterilization, of making sure that parenthood is absolutely prohibited to the feeble-minded.
-- Margaret Sanger -
The advantage that hospitals have over other institutions is that hospitals are community-based. You can't outsource your work; you can't move your emergency department to Pakistan.
-- Mark Shields -
Laughter, along with madness, seemed to be the only way out, the emergency exit for humans.
-- Matt HaigSource : Matt Haig (2014). “The Humans: A Novel”, p.42, Simon and Schuster
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Unless it's an emergency, don't bother me after 6:00 p.m. and on weekends.
-- Merv Griffin -
I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood.
-- Michael Crichton -
But there's no emergency kit for marriage. No neat plan you can turn to when the ground shifts beneath your feet.
-- Michelle Richmond -
In case of emergency, do whatever your best friends tell you to do!
-- Monique ColemanSource : "Monique Coleman". www.seventeen.com. July 31, 2007.
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Procedures outside the stadiums and in the parking areas still need to be optimized, for example so that emergency medical services can leave the grounds on their way to the hospital faster.
-- Otto Schily -
I certainly think we have an emergency in media, and we gotta fix it.
-- Phil Donahue -
No emergency excuses you from exercising tolerance.
-- Phyllis Bottome -
When I go to the beauty parlor, I always use the emergency entrance. Sometimes I just go for an estimate.
-- Phyllis Diller -
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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller -
I cannot separate the finances of India from those of England. If the finances of the Indian Government receive any severe and irreparable check, will not the resources of England be called upon to meet the emergency, and to supply the deficiency?
-- Richard Cobden -
Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a torpedo or a toy.
-- Richard Le Gallienne -
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Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.
-- Robert Baden-PowellSource : Robert Baden-Powell, Elleke Boehmer (2005). “Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship”, p.20, Oxford University Press
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Men ever follow willingly a daring leader: most willingly of all, in great emergencies.
-- Robert Dale Owen -
Poetry is no more a narcotic than a stimulant; it is a universal bittersweet mixture for all possible household emergencies and its action varies accordingly as it is taken in a wineglass or a tablespoon, inhaled, gargled or rubbed on the chest by hard fingers covered with rings.
-- Robert Graves -
The ability to keep a cool head in an emergency, maintain poise in the midst of excitement, and to refuse to be stampeded are true marks of leadership.
-- Robert R. Shannon -
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I sit up straight and do the first thing a person is supposed to do in an emergency, which is send a text message.
-- Robin SloanSource : Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.116, Atlantic Books Ltd
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Being mayor of New York was a crisis a week and an emergency every other day.
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The pressure suit helps if something goes wrong during launch or re-entry - astronauts have a way to parachute off the shuttle. The suits protect you from loss of pressure in case of emergency.
-- Sally Ride -
It was just this sudden call like it was an emergency. "Quick! You have to go do this... because it's Friends!" I was just, "Oh, my God, okay!"
-- Sherilyn Fenn -
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Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.
-- Slavoj Žižek -
Most illegals are without health insurance, and when these workers need emergency healthcare, the American taxpayer gets stuck with the bill.
-- Spencer Bachus -
Many communities throughout the nation still do not have the communications infrastructure in place for first responders to communicate with one another during an emergency.
-- Susan Collins -
Never invest emergency savings in the stock market.
-- Suze Orman -
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A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds.
-- Ted NelsonSource : "A different vision of the computer world". sydney.edu.au. April 4, 2011.
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However it is achieved, a thorough reorganisation of production, consumption and distribution will be the end result of humanity's response to the climate emergency and the broader environmental crisis.
-- Walden Bello -
The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the "state of emergency" in which we live is not the exception but the rule.
-- Walter BenjaminSource : Walter Benjamin, Michael William Jennings (2003). “Selected Writings: 1938-1940”, p.392, Harvard University Press
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The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.
-- William Feather -
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A student comes to me with a piece of writing, holds it out, says, 'Is this good?' A whole sequence of emergencies goes off in my mind. That's not a question to ask anyone but yourself.
-- William Stafford -
The trouble with emergencies is," she said, "that I always put on my finest underwear and then nothing happens.
-- Zelda Fitzgerald -
Say no to being on-call 24/7 unless you are an emergency responder. Use a speakerphone, use a headset.
-- Devra DavisSource : Source: www.salon.com
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In Italy there are two emergencies. This is what I hear, and this is what all the stats say. Employment and security.
-- Matteo Salvini -
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I'm most proud of the ambulance service. This is emergency work. Many times Edhi ambulances are the first to arrive and save people's lives. I'm very proud of this.
-- Abdul Sattar EdhiSource : Source: www.irinnews.org
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This is a national emergency, if Donald Trump wins.
-- Allan NairnSource : Source: www.democracynow.org
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If Donald Trump wins, it's a national emergency.
-- Allan NairnSource : Source: www.democracynow.org
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Citizens are not prepared for attacks because there is a bias against the public by nearly every expert and government official. In emergency preparedness, there is this belief that public will panic, that the public is not to be trusted, that there will be looting.
-- Amanda RipleySource : Source: www.motherjones.com
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Throwing young people on the scrap heap is a public health emergency.
-- Michael Marmot -
The August Decrees were an improvised parliamentary reaction to an emergency situation.
-- Francois Furet -
I have to have an emergency phone number in case anything happens
-- Harry Winston -
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise.
-- Thomas Watson, Jr. -
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ISS leak is just like on a ship, there are bulkheads that, if there's an emergency, can separate an area that's no longer airtight from the undamaged portion of the station. The former Russian space station Mir actually did once develop a leak, after colliding with an unmanned cargo ship. Everyone survived.
-- Ulrich WalterSource : Source: www.spiegel.de