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Quotes About Rescue

I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans.
~ Madeleine Albright
I could have stopped them," he said. The skin of his face was very pale; his voice was hoarse. "I was close enough. I could have saved her." I shook my head. "You could not have known." He buried his face in his hands and did not speak. I held him and whispered all the bits of broken comfort I could find.
~ Madeline Miller
May I give you some advice? If you are truly his friend, you will help him leave this soft heart behind. He's going to Troy to kill men, not rescue them." His dark eyes held me like swift-running current. "He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.
~ Madeline Miller
He is on a mission to rescue a people who are so utterly deceived most of them don't even want to be rescued.
~ John Eldredge
They may be misplaced, forgotten, or misdirected, but in the heart of every man is a desperate desire for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue.
~ John Eldredge
You are the son of a kind, strong, and engaged Father, a Father wise enough to guide you in the Way, generous enough to provide for your journey. His first act of provision happened before you were even born, when he rescued you through the life, death, and resurrection of our elder brother, Jesus of Nazareth. Then he called you to himself—perhaps is calling you even now—to come home to him through faith in Christ.
~ John Eldredge
After almost eleven months of captivity, Mary was free again.
~ John Guy
I realize that a writer's business is setting fire to Piggy Sneed-and trying to save him-again and again; forever.
~ John Irving
Yes, he had practically saved my life. He had also practically lost it for me.
~ John Knowles
Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you.
~ Isaiah
Surely, the Lord will save us in any situation.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Getting fed up of being the helpful understanding child, somebody save me.
~ Unknown
Don't be the kind of person who gives someone the rope to hang themself, be the person who will give them the scissors to cut them-self down.
~ Unknown
Loneliness is like quicksand, once you're in it, it's hard to get out of.
~ Unknown
When it rains tribulation, it pours mercy. When you are drowning in the seas of difficulty the life boat of ease comes to pull you out.
~ Unknown
He fought to save you, and your darling reputation. Because he could not bear to see you suffer!
~ Madeline Miller
The Kiowa was used to rescuing huge vessels like battleships and messaged her first question, "How much diesel fuel do you have?" "None," came the answer from the NR?1. "Well, how long can you keep your power on?" "Twenty years.
~ Unknown
I was terrified those nights that I was searching for the wounded, but doing something was so much better than staying huddled up inside my own prison.
~ Marc Levy
But sometimes illumination comes to our rescue at the very moment when all seems lost; we have knocked at every door and they open on nothing until, at last, we stumble unconsciously against the only one through which we can enter the kingdom we have sought in vain a hundred years - and it opens.
~ Marcel Proust
when we have been brought very low and helped, sorely wounded and healed, cast down and raised again, have given up all hope--and been suddenly snatched from danger, and placed in safety; and when these things have been repeated to us and in us a thousand times over, we begin to learn to trust simply to the word and power of God, beyond and against appearances[....]
~ John Newton
President Carter attempted to negotiate the release of the hostages. When this failed, he authorized a military rescue mission, launched in April 1980. It was a disaster, and it turned out to be the hammer that would drive the final nail into Carter's presidential coffin.
~ John Perkins
I don't know. He was hit hard. Bleeding out his mouth, bright red blood, so he probably took a hit to his lung. He was alive when they took him into the operating room . . ." Lucas gave him the details he had, then gave the phone to the highway patrolman, who knew Wood, and Wood confirmed Lucas's status.
~ John Sandford
smiled and the smile even touched her normally cool eyes. She said, "Lucas. I never had a chance to thank you. You saved my life—you and Dan. You as much as Dan.
~ John Sandford
Danielle Lowen: How are you? I am fine. The group that destroyed Earth Station and made it look like the Colonial Union did it is now planning to nuke the surface of your planet until it glows, and frame the Conclave for it. Hope you are well. Looking forward to rescuing you in space again soon. Your friend, Harry Wilson.
~ John Scalzi