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Quotes About Salvage

Often if a picture is in trouble one way or another, there are ways to salvage it, through reshoots or whatever.
~ John Knoll
We laughed and laughed, together and separately, out loud and silently, we were determined to ignore whatever needed to be ignored, to build a new world from nothing if nothing in our world could be salvaged, it was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about my life at all.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
No, no. Absolutely not. We had a talk with the rabbi, and now we're fully in salvage-the-bar-mitzvah mode." "You had a talk? You think talk got us out of Egypt or Entebbe? Uh-uh. Plagues and Uzis. Talk gets you a good place in line for a shower that isn't a shower.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
American ambulance crews] salvaged people we'd never see in Missing, because no one would have tied to bring them to a hospital. Judging someone to be beyond help never crossed the minds of police, firemen, or doctors here.
~ Abraham Verghese
The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.
~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
God is the ultimate salvage artist. He loves to restore things to their original condition—and make them even better.
~ Randy Alcorn
A knowledge and appreciation of history is difficult for a culture so enthralled by the moment, a culture that shuns the discipline of a larger context in any study. Unfortunately this loss of historical interest has made the present difficult to address because the context of the past is imperative if we are to salvage the future.
~ Ravi Zacharias
What's first-best time to negotiate?" he asked. "When you're certain to lose. Then you may salvage something, right?
~ Dave Duncan
And we want to make sure that something is done to salvage what's left of this beautiful race called humans.
~ James Dashner
Even though marriage is doomed, if you turned it into a job you like and really work at it - it can be salvaged.
~ Al Goldstein
There are two reasons why man should not worry, either one of which must operate in every instance. First, because he cannot prevent the results he fears. Second, because he can prevent them. If he be powerless to avert the blow, he needs perfect mental concentration to meet it bravely, to lighten its force, to get what salvage he can from the wreck, to sustain his strength at this time when he must plan a new future.
~ William George Jordan
I should probably get a stone. A stone would be good. A stone would save me, would salvage all the damage we had already done, all the things we had given up or lost.
~ Dave Eggers
Jakku had trained her to do two things better than anyone else could. The first was to salvage broken things. The second was to wait.
~ Jason Fry
I learned both love and joy in a hard school/ and treasure them like the fierce salvage of/ some wreck that has been built to look like stone/ and stand, though it did not, a thousand years.
~ Edwin Morgan
As a privileged survivor of the First World War, I hope I may be allowed to interject here a deeply felt tribute to those who were not fortunate enough to succeed, but who shared the signal honor of trying to the last to salvage peace.
~ Rene Cassin
Frobisher should perhaps have realized that Lottie was a woman who was resistant to salvage. She had risen and fallen like the tide, but she seemed to favour the ebb rather than the flow.
~ Kate Atkinson
You have to salvage what you can, even if you're the one who buried it in the first place.
~ Kelly Link
The case has been put to rest now. John is buried, and whatever was left of my reputation has been salvaged," he said, his voice oddly soft. "Thank you for that. You fight harder for me than you would ever do for yourself. Why?
~ Deanna Raybourn
Nothing was worthless. Not if you knew who needed it. Not if you knew how to salvage it.
~ Rob Thomas
No one in their right mind would attempt to salvage it, but there were plenty of people not in their right mind. The world was full of them, more produced every minute.
~ Robert Ferrigno
In the coming days and weeks, Laila would scramble frantically to commit it all to memory, what happened next. Like an art lover running out of a burning museum, she would grab whatever she could--a look, a whisper, a moan--to salvage from perishing to preserve. But time is the most unforgiving of fires, and she couldn't, in the end, save it all.
~ Khaled Hosseini
She would grab whatever she could - a look, a whisper, a moan - to salvage from perishing, to preserve. But time is most unforgiving of fires, and she couldn't, in the end, save it all .
~ Khaled Hosseini
Bebe Kincaid, a plump, gray-haired woman who was the most unlikely employee of his company, SEAL Demolition and Salvage.
~ Kyle Mills
Such religion as there can be in modern life, every individual will have to salvage from the churches for himself.
~ yutang lin