Quotes About Rescue

Molly, at the rail, her wet hair matted down, her dress torn, watching Peter intently until she knew he saw her, then mouthing something... Fly, she was saying, Fly. "I CAN'T," Peter shouted moving his arms helplessly. "I CAN'T, MOLLY!

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.

She clicked on Mae's life preserver.

If we truly love others, we'll do all we can to rescue them from error. Nor is it loving to fail to point out where friends, acquaintances, or even enemies have gone astray.

If your boat is sinking, you really don't care in which direction it's pointed!

to bring him back, alive rather than dead." Puller kept his mouth shut. "I want to know what you've found out

With great difficulty, Hall managed to extract Commander William James, who had been his second-in-command on Queen Mary. James had the nickname 'Bubbles', because it was well known in the navy that he had been, as a curly-haired child, the original for the famous Millais painting of the boy blowing soap bubbles, which was used eventually for advertising Pears Soap.

The drunk and the maimed both are dragged forward out of the arena like a boneless Christ, one man under each arm, feet dragging, eyes on the aether.

Capii che gli ubriachi e gli storpi vengono trascinati fuori dall'arena come Cristi disossati, un uomo sotto ogni braccio, coi piedi che strisciano a terra, gli occhi al cielo.

you do assist the storm.

Eugenia and get them out of harm's way.

dreaming about being captured by

I was able to liberate Soon-Yi from a terrible situation and provide her with an opportunity to flower and realize her potential, and she would never have to eat a bar of soap or long for a hug or get hit with a phone again.

Confías una, dos, diez veces, hasta que claro: llega uno y te acuchilla. Pero ese día no me traicionaron; me salvaron.

I had to stop hoping so much that a ship would rescue me. I should not count on outside help. Survival had to start with me. In my experience, a castaway's worst mistake is to hope too much and to do too little. Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away.

It would no longer be the small thing it was before, but the most important thing in the world, the thing that would save my life. This happened time and again.

Things floated in the water but none that brought me hope. I could see no other lifeboats.

Pray for me! and what noise soever ye hear, come not unto me, for nothing can rescue me.

We've lulled ourselves into believing that in an emergency, someone else will always come along to rescue us. We've stopped relying on our own wonderfully adaptable bodies; we've forgotten that we can think, climb, leap, run, throw, swim, and fight with more versatility than any other creature on the planet.

He pushed through the bushes. In a little hollow were three small puppies, whining faintly. They were cold and draggled with mud. Someone had left them there, evidently, to perish. They were huddled close together; their eyes, a cloudy unspeculative blue, were only just opened. "This is gruesome," said Gissing, pretending to be shocked.

But I was kind of surprised that God would send a saver to me in such raggedy clothes.

Will you give the girl to me?" she said. "Will you let me try?" He nodded, dizzy with relief. "Please, Willo. Please. Save her. It doesn't matter...what happens to me.

Maybe you're the one that gave me up to the Darians at Oden's Ford." "Right," she said, staring up at the ceiling. "And then I turned around and rescued you. You know women—changeable as a day in April. Sometimes we just can't make up our minds.

Sometimes only a lie can save you.