Quotes About Rescue
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
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Where were you When everything was falling apart? All my days Were spent by the telephone That never rang And all I needed was a call That never came To the corner of First and Amistad. Lost and insecure You found me, you found me Lyin' on the floor Surrounded, surrounded Why'd you have to wait? Where were you? Where were you? Just a little late You found me, you found me.
~ The Fray
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What finite beings say about transcendence is the semblance of transcendence; but as Kant well knew, it is a necessary semblance. Hence the incomparable metaphysical relevance of the rescue of semblance, the object of esthetics.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
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Remain tranquil and prepare to bear still greater trials. All is not lost even though you be troubled oftener or tempted more grievously. You are a man, not God. You are flesh, not an angel. How can you possibly expect to remain always in the same state of virtue when the angels in heaven and the first man in paradise failed to do so? I am He Who rescues the afflicted and brings to My divinity those who know their own weakness.
~ Thomas a Kempis
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The proper task of the Savior is that he is a savior; indeed, for this he came into the world: to seek and save what was lost.
~ Thomas Aquinas
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yield the lady, or prepare to maintain his right by arms.
~ Thomas Bulfinch
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I am a voice for innocent animals who are being neglected and dumped by the millions at shelters.
~ Joanna Krupa
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The Savior of all mankind left the ninety and nine to find the one lost. That one who was lost need not have become lost.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
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Jess thought for a moment. 'You know those films where people fight up the top of the Empire State Building or up a mountain or whatever? And there's always that bit when the baddie slips off and the hero tries to save him, but, like, the sleeve of this jacket tears off and goes over and you hear him all the way down. Aaaaaaaaagh. That's what I want to do.' 'You want to watch me plunge to my doom.' 'I'd like to know that I've made the effort. I want to show people the torn sleeve.
~ Nick Hornby
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This, really, is the bottom line, the chief attraction of the opposite sex for all of us, old and young, men and women: we need someone to save us from the sympathetic smiles in the Sunday-night cinema queue, someone who can stop us from falling down into the pit where the permanently single live with their mums and dads. I'm not going back there again; I'd rather stay in for the rest of my life than attract that kind of attention.
~ Nick Hornby
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But not really needing to be rescued sort of makes being rescued more exciting,you know. No,I don't know, Keeley snapped. Go to school,Mo.I've got mucking out to do. I'm going,I'm going. Sheesh. You must be low on the caffeine intake this morning.I'll come by later to see how the gelding's doing.I've got a kind of vested interest,you know? See you.
~ Nora Roberts
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It wasn't the paramedics or the surgical team that saved my life. It was Ray and Stella Quinn.
~ Nora Roberts
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We had an injured wolf brought in a couple weeks ago. Clipped by a car. Matt saved it. We've gotten a lot of hits on the pictures there, and the column Tansy wrote for it.
~ Nora Roberts
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You came for me.
~ Nora Roberts
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The most villainous move any person can make is tying a woman to the railroad tracks.
~ Chuck Klosterman
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You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
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If we can forgive what has been done to us . . . If we can forgive what we've done to others . . . If we can leave all of our stories behind. Our being villians or victims. Only then can we maybe rescue the world. But we still sit here, waiting to be saved. While we're still victims, hoping to be discovered while we suffer.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
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Of all the priceless objects left behind, this is what we rescue. These artifacts. Memory cues. Useless souvenirs. Nothing you could auction. The scars left from happiness.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
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And it's funny how when somebody saves you, the first thing you want to do is save other people. All other people. Everybody. The kid never knew the man's name. But he never forgot that smile. Hero isn't the first word, but it's the first word that comes to mind.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
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I just want one person I can rescue and I want one person who needs me. Who can't live without me. I want to be a hero, but not just one time.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
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You love me. You ignore me. You save my life, then you cook my mother into soap.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
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So if you think this is going to save you...If you think anything is going to save you...Please consider this your final warning.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
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Because I can't hit bottom, I can't be saved.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
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She kept hoping that something would happen to rescue her from her own small-scale, predictable dreams.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
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