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Quotes About Rescue

The release loop was tight, but I thought if I was drowning I would be able to pull anything.
~ Eula Biss
Oh, if I had Orpheus' voice and poetrywith which to move the Dark Maid and her Lord,I'd call you back, dear love, from the world below.I'd go down there for you. Charon or the grimKing's dog could not prevent me thenfrom carrying you up into the fields of light.
~ Euripides
I risked a quick glance over my shoulder as we raced through the door and saw some men in uniforms converging on the spot we had been fighting. The three weres were lying on the floor, all obviously injured. Three Wolf Moon's leg was bent at a wrong angle and Tribal Tattoos was holding his arm and howling. Brass Knuckles was still scrabbling at his bleeding neck, sobbing like a little girl that he had been bitten.
~ Evangeline Anderson
Before she could protest, Baird swung her up into his arms and rose in one smooth motion, as though she didn't weigh a thing. "Hey, I can walk you know!" She wanted to struggle in his arms but the ground was suddenly a long way down and she had no desire to fall on her ass on the tarmac. "No you can't. You're injured.
~ Evangeline Anderson
Now are you going to come out and let us help you or not?" "Forget it. I know what your idea of help is—both of you skewering me at once. I'm not about to become a sexual shish-ka-bob for the rest of my life just because I ate the wrong fruit by mistake." "It
~ Evangeline Anderson
In the 9/11 Commission Report, one of the things they point out is that firefighters saved just about everybody below the fire. I don't think they realize how proud the fire department is of that. Because, conceivably, that's all they could have done. They could not have gotten above that fire.
~ Rudy Giuliani
I would have 55 dogs if I could. I'm hoping one day to open my own shelter.
~ Kaley Cuoco
The american climber Mark Twight, mentor of the Grivel climbing team, commented, "Now every ill-prepared sad sack whose ability falls short of his Himalayan ambitions can get on the radio, call for help, and expect the cavalry to save the day" - on Tomaz Humar's rescue from Rupal Face of Nanga Parvat.
~ Bernadette McDonald
Die Rettung kleiner Nachen Wird sofort in die Tiefe gezogen: Zu viele Versinkende Greifen gierig nach ihm.
~ Bertolt Brecht
And this miniature poodle was trapped in the alley, struggling to hold his head out of the water by propping his front paws up on a piece of steel frame." They clambered in and got the dog out. Days later, after a good bath at Tylertown, the little grey poodle they had rescued turned out to be white as snow.
~ Best Friends Animal Society
Before the Best Friends team got out on the water on their own, they spent several days ferrying already-rescued pets from the Jefferson Parish shelter, an official city facility, to the St. Francis Animal Sanctuary in Tylertown. It was clear to Troy that most of these animals had never seen the inside of a shelter before: "Their eyes seemed to be saying to me, 'Where am I? And where are my people?
~ Best Friends Animal Society
Some animals had been stranded for close to two weeks when we got to them. Some were on porches, some marooned on car hoods and roofs. Doing whatever they could to survive." - Troy Snow
~ Best Friends Animal Society
For he will rescue the poor who cry for help, Also the lowly one and whoever has no helper. He will have pity on the lowly and the poor, And the lives of the poor he will save. From oppression and from violence he will rescue them, And their blood will be precious in his eyes.
~ bible quotes vii
When the Church discovers who she is, she no longer wants to be rescued. There's a big difference between being rescued from the big bad devil and being taken up for a wedding. And only one is acceptable for a believing believer.
~ Bill Johnson
When He said "on earth as it is in heaven," He actually meant what He said. He was not trying to keep us busy with spiritual activities until the day He comes back to rescue us from the prevailing darkness. He longs for places on the earth that remind Him of heaven, places in which He feels at home. Prayer and radical obedience make such places possible.
~ Bill Johnson
As Christians, we must get rid of the notion that the only answer for life's troubles is for us to die and go to heaven. Don't be mistaken—heaven is real and is greater than we can possibly imagine. But the kind of attitude that says rescue from this earth is the only thing we live for is an insult to the power of the blood of Jesus and the purpose of redemption.
~ Bill Johnson
I wound up adopting two dogs from Sochi. It wasn't really me who brought them home as much as it was one of my best friends, Robin Macdonald, who was out there with me.
~ Gus Kenworthy
Women are often scrutinized when they have pets that men wouldn't have. We are immediately faulted for having the wrong kind of pet rather than anyone first think, 'Wow, she rescued an animal that would have been otherwise killed and gave them a great home - how sweet!'
~ Iliza Shlesinger
Once I wrapped 'Insurgent', I went to Boston and shot a film called 'The Finest Hours.' It's based on a real story in 1952 about a Coast Guard mission to rescue these sinking ships that are caught in a blizzard.
~ Keiynan Lonsdale
The cries of the sufferers on the remaining part of the wreck were heard during the night.
~ Grace Darling
Jonah wondered what JB could possibly find to say without bringing up some touchy topic: Hey, sorry about kidnapping your niece and taking her four hundred years back in time. Sorry she got stuck there for five years. Sorry we had to count on a thirteen-year-old to rescue her. Oh, wait—you don't know about any of that, do you?
~ HADDIX MARGARET PETERSON
I thought we'd been forgotten," the prisoner said. "No, you're not forgotten," Robbins said. "We've come for you.
~ Hampton Sides
My part, was the prompt reply, was to run away, and the Lord's part was to run after me until He caught me.
~ Hannah Whitall Smith
Early in the morning, a peasant, who was passing by, saw what had happened. He broke the ice in pieces with his wooden shoe, and carried the duckling home to his wife. The warmth revived the poor
~ Hans Christian Andersen