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Quotes About Rescue

The first rule when you are in a hole is to ask for a hand out!
~ Stephen Richards
No one was expecting the six-man team of elite SAS officers to storm the prison, but that is exactly what they did do. Hurling stun grenade and tear gas canisters, they entered the jail through a skylight before freeing the terrified prison warder.
~ Stephen Richards
plunges back into the aquarium, barely missing the half-inch steel cable still dangling from Jonas's hand.
~ Steve Alten
What happened? Are you alright?" "I'm attached to the rescue cable. Lost both wings when I had a little run in with Maren's monster." "The liopleurodon?
~ Steve Alten
Since I was a boy, from this house, I was out rescuing crocodiles and snakes. My mum and dad were very passionate about that and, I was lucky enough to go along.
~ Steve Irwin
The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue.
~ Steve Irwin
I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it.
~ Steve Irwin
You know, I've got a plan that could rescue Apple. I can't say any more than that it's the perfect product and the perfect strategy for Apple. But nobody there will listen to me.
~ Steve Jobs
It's just that no one wants to be the one being rescued, we all want to do the rescuing.
~ Steven Brust
Saving someone's life is a wonderful feeling. Try it. You feel like, if you don't mind a TV reference, a big damn hero.
~ Steven Brust
Somewhere a little girl is trapped in time, and I'm trying to set her free.
~ Steven Brust
It isn't that they're ungrateful." "I know. It's just that no one wants to be the one being rescued, we all want to do the rescuing." She nodded. "And this job is all about making everyone else do the rescuing. Which is why you're here right now." "You want me to rescue someone?
~ Steven Brust
If you think about the influence it has had, it's incredible. Think of all the relationships that have been saved because of Skype.
~ Taavet Hinrikus
Drones, with their agility and small size, seem perfect for search and rescue operations.
~ Grant Imahara
Since I was a boy, from this house, I was out rescuing crocodiles and snakes. My mum and dad were very passionate about that and, I was lucky enough to go along.
~ Steve Irwin
A true hero is the one who knows that often as not the dragon is in the damsel and not the other way around.
~ Midori Snyder
But you can't save people from the world. There's nowhere else to take them
~ Mike Carey
She began to teeter as she walked, fell almost daily, bumped into things or, at the very least, dropped objects. She was in the grip of an insuperable longing to fall. She lived in a constant state of vertigo. 'Pick me up,' is the message of a person who keeps falling.
~ Milan Kundera
How many ancient myths begin with the rescue of an abandoned child! If Polybus hadn't taken in the young Oedipus, Sophocles wouldn't have written his most beautiful tragedy!
~ Milan Kundera
Un hombre que va por la orilla del mar agitando enloquecidamente con el brazo extendido un farol puede ser un loco. Pero si es de noche y entre las olas hay una barca perdida, ese mismo hombre es un salvador.
~ Milan Kundera
She was in the grip of an insuperable longing to fall. She lived in a constant state of vertigo. Pick me up, is the message of a person who keeps falling. Tomas kept picking her up, patiently.
~ Milan Kundera
But all the love in the world won't save a sinking ship. You have to either bail or jump overboard.
~ Sarah Dessen
Love them. Save them. Give them opportunity.
~ Somaly Mam
What well-bred woman would refuse her heart to a man who had just saved her life? Not one; and gratitude is a short cut which speedily leads to love.
~ Theophile Gautier