Quotes About Rescue

We find Maggie," I said. "We take her back. And we kill anyone who gets in the way." Susan

You are the only man I ever met," Tera growled, "who would smash the paws that are trying to free you from certain death.

Just once," I growled, "I'd like to save the goddamned day without a shot clock. You know?

Bob's knowledge and skills had let me save lives. Mostly my own, maybe, but a lot of other lives, too.

I would have to call a cab. It wasn't the most heroic way to ride to the rescue, but walkers can't be choosers.

If parents pull their children out of struggles too quickly, children get fearful of just about everything. With that said, be realistic. Sometimes rescue is the higher priority.

Never forget what you were saved from.

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If you scream, people say you're melodramatic; if you submit, you're masochistic; if you call names, you're a bitch. Hit him and he'll kill you. The best thing is to suffer mutely and yearn for a rescuer, but suppose a rescuer doesn't come?

As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.

There's some illogical part of me that still believes if you want Superman to show up, first there's got to be someone worth saving.

Superheroes were born in the minds of people desperate to be rescued.

There were lies we told to save ourselves, and then there were lies we told to rescue others. What counted more, the mistruth, or the greater good?

But this is inaccurate. A runaway train is an accident. Me, I'll jump in front of the tracks. I'll even tie myself down in front of the speeding engine. There's some illogical part of me hat still believes if you want Superman to show up, first there's got to be someone worth saving.

Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.

I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names.

You saved me, I said. Nathaniel put his hands on either side of my face. I had to, he said. So you could save me back.

We'd sit with a big bowl of popcorn, wrapped together in a queen-size blanket, and would escape to a place where magic was ours for the taking, where men rescued the people they loved instead of abandoning them. A place where, no matter how bad things looked at that moment, there would always be a happy ending.

You could only save someone that wanted to be saved; otherwise, you'd be dragged down for the count, too.

I had not asked to be rescued, true, but that did not mean I didn't need saving.

How does someone go from thinking that if he cannot rescue, he must destroy? And do you blame him, or do you blame the folks who should have told him otherwise?

Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light.

All guys should learn from Mario Bros. No matter how far their princess is, they should go after her.

He stood there a moment longer, fantasizing once again of rescuing Lori Love. She'd turned out to be a damsel in distress after all, but not the innocent, helpless kind. No, she was a damsel of a different sort. The brave kind who fought and lied and stole and did really dirty things with the knight in shining armor. Just before she sent him on his way with a pat on the back. And that was that.