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Quotes About Rescue

Next, the bystanders saw something large and dark fall from one of the windows. "Someone's in there, all right," said a voice in the crowd. "He's trying to save his best cloth." When the next bundle began falling, the onlookers realized that it was a human being.
~ David Von Drehle
The geometry of judgment is a circle. Hate is a snake that turns to consume itself from the tail, a circle that diminishes to a point, then to nothing. Pride is such a snake, and envy, and greed. Love, however, is a hoop, a wheel, that rolls on forever. We are rescued by those whom we have rescued. The saved become the saviors of their saviors.
~ Dean Koontz
She's mine. I'll fight to keep her safe from that old life. I've already seen her forget it. I love her. And if a beast ever rises in me I'll burn my hand off before I lay it on her with shameful intent. And, by God! sooner or later I'll kill the man who hid her and kept her in Deception Pass!
~ Zane Grey
I must tell you—because you mightn't come back, she whispered. You must know what—what I think of your goodness—of you. Always I've been tongue-tied. I seemed not to be grateful. It was deep in my heart. Even now—if I were other than I am—I couldn't tell you. But I'm nothing—only a rustler's girl—nameless—infamous. You've saved me—
~ Zane Grey
Ah jus' know dat God snatched me out de fire through you. And Ah loves yuh and feel glad.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
I've been a big advocate of adopt-don't-shop.
~ Joe Gatto
Maybe because he can read the pain of others... that he values saving them more than his own life.
~ Unknown
President Taft, too, was preoccupied by the fate of his aide and frustrated by his inability to receive word of whether Archie might be on board the rescue ship. On Tuesday, Taft instructed the secretary of the navy to send out two scout cruisers, the Salem and the Chester, to establish radio contact with the Carpathia.
~ Hugh Brewster
Boredom sends up a flare: meaning exists here, boredom beckons, but stranded meaning. Meaning that requires rescue.
~ Ian Bogost
My name is Llian. I've come to save you." Said to Karan just before Llian falls flat on his face in front of her.
~ Unknown
When he came to, the eels were still being removed from him and Anvar was congratulating one of the rivermen. The man had smashed open a barrel of eels and covered both dwarf and zombie with them.
~ Unknown
You've heard the talk; that he's a wastrel, a playboy. But he is kind and he is brave. Much braver and kinder than me. He took the Moonrun. I never did that. He saved Kojo Asamoah's life. He went back, in vacuum, to save him. Everyone forgets that about him. The Asamoahs didn't.
~ Unknown
I work with the Humane Society a lot and have three rescue cats.
~ Ian Somerhalder
The horses came thundering toward Margaret. "Get down!" Daniel tackled her to the dusty ground. The breath puffed out of her. She struggled to free herself, but his strong body kept her pinned beneath him. She could smell the clean scent of soap underneath the scent of his skin. Never in her life had she felt so helpless and dependent. And protected. The word whispered through her brain with a gentle allure.
~ Colleen Coble
The only way to know how long you are lost in the darkness is to be saved from it.
~ Colson Whitehead
I fear I am once more in your debt, Mr. Owens," she said, her voice shaking just a bit. "Think nothing of it," Jim said, calmly replacing his pistol in its shoulder holster and leaning back on his bedroll. He no longer got rattled at having to shoot things, climb things, chase things, or dive into things to snatch her back from the precipices she seemed always to be leaning over. It was all in the day's work. "Please. Continue with what you were saying.
~ Connie Brockway
and skidded to a halt before him. "The prisoners are gone, Lionheart!
~ Unknown
No doubt about it. We've made a preliminary examination, and I don't even think we'll have to resort to blood transfusion. What saved him more than anything else were the makeshift bandages that were found on him. If it hadn't been for them he'd have been a goner long before he was picked up." This went over my head at the time. I didn't understand. I thought he meant their own bandages, the hospital's.
~ Cornell Woolrich
By God's grace, he found me and saved me.
~ Craig Groeschel
God's love for and protection of us are always consistent with his will for us—and his will for us is always consistent with what is best, not only for us, but also for a fallen world that he is always trying to rescue.
~ Unknown
My rescue, engineered by the upward dynamic of a power accomplishing what I could not.
~ Unknown
Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
~ Unknown
Every instance in my life, I've felt like the exact opposite of Superman. Except this time, this moment right now. I don't care. I don't feel like a weak, insipid sissy. Because right now I know I would save the girl. I know that I would rather risk the planet than let harm befall Eliza Wishart. I would save her in a second. Because I can imagine her and me huddled safe together while the earth falls under evil designs, but I can't imagine the world without her in it.
~ Craig Silvey
I don't mean to pry, but saving people is my calling. Yours vigilantly, The Masked Avenger
~ Craig Silvey