Quotes About Emergency

On September 20, the New York Stock Exchange halted trading for ten days. Grant received emergency pleas for purchases of Treasury bonds to add liquidity to national banks, while Thomas Murphy, the former New York customs collector, wired: "Relief must come immediately or hundreds if not thousands of our best men will be ruined." Not since 1837 had such a spasm of fear flashed through Wall Street.

When he dozed during an emergency meeting, nobody dared disturb the royal snooze.

When you've knocked someone unconscious, put him into the recovery position. If you want him to recover.

He understood the theory. In an emergency people would have to exit that way, out through the window and over the wing. Hence all kinds of regulations mandated a minimum space, so people would be comfortable on their way through, except that if such a thing existed as a minimum space for a person to be comfortable, then why wasn't every row just as capacious? It was a regulatory conundrum he couldn't unravel.

Did he make it?" "By the skin of his teeth. They medevaced him. The hospital induced a coma before the worst symptoms set in. That saved him a lot of agony. And probably saved his life.

There would have been ten squad cars there in a thin minute.

When a bird crapped on my window, he called 911.

medical supplies?

Dammit! What? Gonzo sounds panicked. We're out of gas. You're Shithenging me. I Shithenge you not.

The day we learn to allow an ambulance to pass through in traffic, might be the first step towards being a truly responsible society.

Death is losing its terror. It is the emergency exit for a world that is becoming more frightening death ever was.

When the house is on fire, don't tell me what your spiritual gift is. Just grab a hose and put out the fire.

If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?

If your negligent neighbor falls asleep with a lit cigarette in his mouth, setting his house on fire, he's irresponsible and guilty. But you don't want him to perish in the blaze. Nor do you want his house setting the whole neighborhood on fire. So you call in the fire department, even though it will cost taxpayers money.

In times of crisis people are generally blind to everything outside their immediate necessities.

Isabel observed an etiquette of the telephone: a call before eight in the morning was an emergency; between eight and nine it was an intrusion; thereafter calls could be made until ten in the evening, although anything after nine-thirty required an apology for the disturbance. After ten one was into emergency time again.

telephoned Jamie the next morning at the earliest decent hour; nine o'clock, in her view. Isabel observed an etiquette of the telephone: a call before eight in the morning was an emergency; between eight and nine it was an intrusion; thereafter calls could be made until ten in the evening, although anything after nine-thirty required an apology for the disturbance. After ten one was into emergency time again.

Covers you for in-patient hospital care. Has no premium if you qualify. Has a $1,408 deductible per benefit period. May have more than one benefit period in a year and you may have to pay more than one deductible in a year. Does not cover emergency room care.

No matter how much you love a man, always have a stash of money that would get you as far away from him as possible in an emergency.

If we see you smoking we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action.

I accessed one of the emergency supplies of nanites I had hidden, thanking God that I had taken this precaution

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear -­ kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor ­- with the cry of grave national emergency. Always, there has been some terrible evil at home, or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.