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Quotes About Rescue

Through the dense din, I say, we heard him shout I see your lights! But ours had long died out.
~ Wilfred Owen
Thomas had once watched a dog in a park, tethered to a tree, turning in slowly constricting circles until it had to be rescued and unwound. At which point it started winding itself anew. Heartbreak is a dog in a park on a tree.
~ Will Ferguson
He will save me from the water and from the fire.
~ William Faulkner
If I blow the conch and they don't come back; then we've had it. We shan't keep the fire going. We'll be like animals. We'll never be rescued. If you don't blow, we'll soon be animals anyway.
~ William Golding
On the other side of the island, swathed at midday with mirage, defended by the shield of the quiet lagoon, one might dream of rescue; but here, faced by the brute obtuseness of the ocean, the miles of division, one was clamped down, one was helpless, one was condemned, one was—
~ William Golding
My Westley will come for me.
~ William Goldman
To get the votes Hitler had only to take advantage of the times, which once more, as the Thirties began, saw the German people plunged into despair; to obtain the support of those in power he had to convince them that only he could rescue Germany from its disastrous predicament
~ William L. Shirer
At two o'clock this afternoon, alarm! The Americans! An American detachment takes over the hotel. We are free!
~ William L. Shirer
Rescue—if people are facing a daunting task, and their instinct is to avoid it, you've got to break down the task. Shrink the change. Make the change small enough that they can't help but score a victory. Once
~ Chip Heath
they'd saved 122,300 lives—the equivalent of throwing a life preserver to every man, woman, and child in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
~ Chip Heath
Later I would ask, "Why did you save me, why?" The serpents never answered. What answer is there for love.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Here's the thing: You rescue us every day in small, quiet ways, so why not in this way? Let us into your mystery, tell us how you would like to be loved, show us how to see you, really see you.
~ Chris Abani
Psychiatry in this place is like serving an in-flight meal in the middle of a plane crash. If I wanted to make you well, as a doctor, I should be giving you a parachute, not a cheese-and-pickle sandwich.
~ Chris Cleave
Help me. Please, God help me...
~ Christa Faust
I think about the destructiveness of desire: of wanting something unrealistic, of believing in the possibility of rescue. This stint in Boston only confirms my belief that there is no cure for what ails me. No matter how long I hold a stick with fluttering rags above my head, no trawler in the distance will be coming to my rescue.
~ Christina Baker Kline
A pair of peasants must be saved even if we build an ark.
~ Christina Rossetti
As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.
~ Christine Keeler
A priest found an infant, about ten inches long, Crammed into the poor-box. The money had all Been taken. Nothing was there except myself, I was the baby, as it turned out. The priest, Thinking I might have eaten the money, held me Upside down and shook me, which encouraged me To live, I suppose, and I lived.
~ Christopher Fry
The best crime fiction is not so much a search and rescue mission, but a recovery mission.
~ Christopher G. Moore
He had been there to warn Dutka's wife and boy. It was an idea of his own, but it worked. They got away." "The captain? Thaddeus?" "The Germans were still searching when I left. The searchlights had been brought up." "There's a chance, isn't there, Jan?" "There's always a chance." But his voice was heavy, and his shoulders drooped. Sheila's next question about Korytów
~ Helen MacInnes
I said that as far as I could gather it was a tale about a woman who could be led out of captivity only by a man, and that the man could save her only by ignoring her.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
A Narrow Escape
~ Henry Cole
Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienist who does not debase his theory of the healthful with a theory of the virtuous. The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices.
~ Henry Louis Mencken
I am the flying saucer man from another world trapped on yours until they come to rescue me. One day the saucer will land. Jimi Hendrix and John Coltrane will open the hatch and tell me to get in before someone tries to blow up the ship. I'll just ask what took them so long. Within seconds we'll be out of here.
~ Henry Rollins