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Quotes About Rescue

By Thy birth, and by Thy Cross, Rescue him from endless loss; By Thy death and burial, Save him from a final fall; By Thy rising from the tomb, By Thy mounting up above, By the Spirit's gracious love, Save him in the day of doom.
~ Saint John Henry Newman
Finding Nemo
~ Sally Rippin
Is it possible that evil is never total, that its victory, no matter how overwhelming, is never absolute? Consider this fallen man. He sought without remorse to shatter the mind of a fellow human being; and exploited, to do so, an entirely blameless woman, at least partly owing to his own impossible and voyeuristic desire for her. Yet this same man has risked death, with scarcely any hesitation, in a foolhardy rescue attempt.
~ Salman Rushdie
That's just it. What if I can't protect you? I'll be outnumbered, outgunned. What if I can't get you out of there?
~ Collette West, Inside Game
He spends so much time in the sand trap you'd think he was in the cast of Baywatcb.
~ Tim Conway
Commending the victims to almighty God's mercy, I implore his strength upon all involved in rescue efforts and in caring for the survivors.
~ Pope John Paul II
I must stress, basically, the very fact that we do have orangutan rehabilitation means that we have failed to do what is really important, and that is rescue the wild orangutan in its habitat.
~ Willie Smits
I have just paid twenty-five thousand francs for a discovery for which I would willingly have paid a hundred thousand.' 'What have you discovered?' Maximilien asked. 'I have just found out how to rescue a gardener from the dormice who are eating his peaches.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Sauver un homme, épargner un tourment à un père, ménager la sensibilité d'une femme, ce n'est point faire une bonne oeuvre, c'est faire acte d'humanité.
~ Alexandre Dumas
You rescue something and you're responsible for it. But maybe that's what love is. Maybe it's like a hit-and-run accident; it smashes you before you can think. You do it no matter the cost and you keep on running
~ Alice Hoffman
She thinks of the way angels arrive, when you lease expect them, when the road is dark, when you're bleeding and alone and hopeless, when you're sleeping in a basement, convinced that no one knows you're there.
~ Alice Hoffman
You rescue something and you're responsible for it. But maybe that's what love is.
~ Alice Hoffman
I would have drowned without you to watch over me...I now understand there are a thousand ways to drown, and a thousand ways to rescue someone.
~ Alice Hoffman
Sara had told me that a woman who could rescue herself was a woman who would never be in need.
~ Alice Hoffman
She's reminded of the time when she would get lost on purpose and her mother would look for her, shouting her name as though calling for a lost dog. Now she burns with regret when she thinks that she hid from her own mother. She should have leapt up and waved her arms. She should have gotten into her mom's car and said, Thank you for rescuing me.
~ Alice Hoffman
She doesn't know why she didn't turn out like the girl in Union Square, screaming at passersby, caught in the web of her own pain, but on nights when she's reading her veterinary journals, and the dogs are sleeping, she wonders if it's possible that when she rescued them, they rescued her as well.
~ Alice Hoffman
You rescue something and you're responsible for it. But maybe that's what love is. Maybe it's like a hit-and-run accident; it smashes you before you can think. You do it no matter the cost and you keep on running.
~ Alice Hoffman
She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything.
~ Alice Sebold
Nikt nie mo?e wyratowa? drugiego cz?owieka. Ka?dy musi ratowa? si? sam albo jest stracony.
~ Alice Sebold
She came back from the eighties to save mankind. Martha Quinn is our only hope.
~ Joe Hill
She was sitting on the floor, beneath the phone, with her arms wrapped around her, when Lou found her. "You been, like, sitting out here for a while," he said. "Do you want me to bring you a blanket or a dead tauntaun or something?
~ Joe Hill
Nah. Hero, for sure. Think about it. In his first adventure, he took the form of a snake to free two prisoners being held naked in a Third World jungle prison by an all-powerful megalomaniac. At the same time, he broadened their diet and introduced them to their own sexuality.
~ Joe Hill
He was still grinning, and his confidence was infectious. Who said one man can't rescue another, I thought. We had changed from climbing to rescue, and the partnership had worked just as effectively. We hadn't dwelt on the accident. There had been an element of uncertainty at first, but as soon as we had started to act positively everything had come together.
~ Joe Simpson
At first the team's primary goal was helping Jewish families escape the Third Reich. Together, they helped more than three hundred families pass through Belgium. Some went to England, and some made it to Canada. Jacob and his new friends provided safe houses, basic provisions, clothes, and false documents along the way. Once the invasion occurred, however, Maurice Tulek redirected them from rescuing Jews to other tasks considered more vital to the Allies.
~ Joel C. Rosenberg