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Quotes About Rescue

Can you really rescue anyone, or anything, without rescuing a piece of yourself at the same time?
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
You can't save everybody. In fact, there are days when I think you can't save anyone. Each person has to save himself first, then you can move in and help.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
This was one princess who could rescue her own damn self. I was fine with the prince fighting at my side, or, hell, I'd rescue him if he needed it.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Sometimes you can't save people, and sometimes they don't want to be saved.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
You saved me because you could not bear the thought of leaving me behind." He touched my face, very gently. "Not from a sense of right and wrong, but because you are just that tenderhearted.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
You can't save everybody. In fact, there are days when I think you can't save anyone.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
I know, I know. I rescued him and he's bonded to me like a baby duck.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
I was wiping Tlaloci's brains off my face when Olaf came to stand in front of me. I never thought I'd say this, but damn I'm glad to see you. He actually smiled. I saved your life. That made me smile. I know.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Pleasure Cruise for 137 Corpses" The fire broke out in the ship's writing-room at 2:30 AM. While the passengers and most of the crew slept soundly, the flames raced through the ship. In an unbelievably
~ Lawrence Block
Nature is a mirror in which I am reflected, because by rescuing this land from sad devastation [through recreating it in photographs], I am in fact trying to save myself from my own inner sadness.
~ Mario Giacomelli
Man, I was drowning in sadness. And Angelina, she lifted me right up out of there.
~ Billy Bob Thornton
But alas! Science cannot now rescue us, for even the scientist is lost in the terrible midnight of our age. Indeed, science gave us the very instruments that threaten to bring universal suicide.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
This is what happens when an outlaw kidnaps a scholar of myths and legends.
~ Doris Egan, Two-Bit Heroes
Jordan couldn't keep the smile off her face. "Yeah, I like this guy. He rescued me from a crazed man with a gun, he makes me laugh, and he calls his mother Ma. I'd say he's a keeper.
~ Julie James
To be saved is here, local and mortal
~ A.R. Ammons
Sometimes I think he wanted it to happen. Maybe he felt alone and unloved and he wanted someone to notice him in the most dramatic way: a rescue. How luxurious it would be, he could have thought, to have your father's powerful hands snatch you from deadly water, pull you up and return you to the shore where your family is waiting for you. Then they would recognize how valuable you are. You wouldn't be ignored after that. Every day you would be loved the way you deserve.
~ Adam Davies
No one confiscated the penknife. Which was lucky for Heather. Because two days later it would save her life.
~ Adrian McKinty
Family is essential; they scoop up their own to rescue them in tragedy, to bind them close, to shore them up and heal them.
~ Adriana Trigiani
As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.
~ Alain de Botton
For Proust, an injection of jealousy is the only thing capable of rescuing a relationship ruined by habit.
~ Alain de Botton
but by the time Dr. Fennel arrived in a mad rush, Kenji was no longer breathing.
~ Alan Brennert
Get away from her, you!
~ Alan Dean Foster
She would have stayed there, blasting away wildly, had not Finn half dragged, half carried her away.
~ Alan Dean Foster
Outside an ambulance begins to scream as if overwhelmed by the suffering it must forever carry in its belly.
~ Alan Moore