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Quotes About Emergency

If I wasn't dead already, I'd said I was having a heart attack.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
That's what underwear is for, girls, so if an emergency happens you only show your cookies to the people you love.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
If you keep the gun in your purse, you get killed, because no woman can find anything in her purse in under twelve minutes. It is a rule.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
You saw the news footage," I said. He gave a small nod. "And just like that you flew out?" "You'd do the same for me," he said. I nodded. "Yeah." "What I can't believe is that you didn't call me sooner." I frowned. "Why?" "You have a zombie apocalypse and you don't invite me.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Flames curled out of all the windows next door. The rooftop beyond that was a lake of fire. Every building in sight was burning. The air was filled with crackling and popping sounds, with shrieks and screams coming from the street below.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
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
Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudent In an emergency.
~ Emily Dickinson
OHMYGODHE'SGOTAGUN!!!
~ Adam Fawer
Living is something of an emergency anyway, but our struggles must usually be strenuously concealed. Our anxieties churn away within us, yet on the outside we must smile and deliver upbeat answers to enquiries about how we're doing.
~ Alain de Botton
East DR Congo Faces Catastrophic Humanitarian Crisis 4,450
~ Alain de Botton
but by the time Dr. Fennel arrived in a mad rush, Kenji was no longer breathing.
~ Alan Brennert
So when you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there's always madness. Madness is the emergency exit.
~ Alan Moore
Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. You can lock them away…forever. The Joker
~ Alan Moore
Outside an ambulance begins to scream as if overwhelmed by the suffering it must forever carry in its belly.
~ Alan Moore
We aren't contractually tied down to rationality! There is no sanity clause! So when you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there's always madness. Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. You can lock them away… Forever.
~ Alan Moore
If a few people escape from a burning building before the firemen arrive, does that discourage the firemen from rescuing others who are still trapped?
~ Don Richardson
Calling all cars, calling all cars. Be on the lookout for a stolen bank, approximately eleven feet tall, blue and white...
~ Donald E Westlake
Our role is to develop techniques that allow us to provide emergency life-saving procedures to injured patients in an extreme, remote environment without the presence of a physician.
~ Chris Hadfield
My life has been a series of emergencies.
~ Lana Turner
A cousin of mine who was a casualty surgeon in Manhattan tells me that he and his colleagues had a one-word nickname for bikers: Donors. Rather chilling.
~ Stephen Fry
Fearing that the king would try to quash their decisions, the deputies held an emergency session in the only building they could find that was large enough to accommodate them, the king's indoor tennis court. There, they swore the dramatic "Oath of the Tennis Court," pledging not to cease meeting until they had given France a new constitution.
~ Jeremy D. Popkin
Making decisions was for him an adaptive reflex, a coping mechanism that pressure only honed and energized, and he'd reacted to the news from Brazil as he would to any emergency, gathering whatever information was available, then digesting as much of it as circumstances allowed before settling upon a logical and systematic plan of action.
~ Jerome Preisler
A severed femoral artery empties itself faster than you can believe.
~ Ernest Hemingway
He man in a sheriff's deputy uniform ran past the corner and tripped on the bat.
~ Andrew Mayne