Quotes About Emergency

We are living in the beginning of a mass extinction and our climate is breaking down.

When hospitals close, ambulance times can increase dramatically, and the additional wait often means the difference between life and death.

Look, if you have somebody who doesn't have health insurance, who doesn't have a doctor or dentist, and in order to deal with their cold or flu or dental problem, they go to an emergency room - in general, that visit will cost ten times more than walking into a community health center.

If your house is on fire, you don't comfort yourself with the thought that houses have been catching fire for thousands of years. You don't sit idly back and think, "Oh well, that is the way of nature." You get going, immediately. And you don't spring into action because of an idealistic notion that houses deserve to be saved. You do it because if you don't, you won't have a place to live.

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

My wife one time got a fishbone stuck in her throat and had to fly back to L.A. from Monte Carlo to have it taken out. I thought, 'Wow, what a great blues song!'

Firemen have the coolest toys ever!

We have seen SARS stopped dead in its tracks.

Streets flooded. Please advise.

I wouldn't trust you with a bucket of water if my knickers were on fire!

In 1957, General Douglas MacArthur said, "Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear—kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fever—with the cry of a grave national emergency … Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

It is easier to face an emergency than to have those difficult conversations. When we go into crisis mode, we give ourselves permission to defer the kinds of conversations that politics requires. And right now, our politics requires conversations, too long deferred, about being a self and a citizen in the world of big data.

Jacob, it's John Watkins … Where are you …?' He listened as he sped along the country roads. 'Well, I'm sorry, but you'll have to make your apologies and leave. Meet me at your office as soon as you can … Yes, it is an emergency. I have hugely radioactive rocks that need a safe house … Now. Can you do that? They might be responsible for one death already … Yes, really … Thanks, see you in a bit.

There's nothing like a major emergency and the almost certain death of the whole damned world to concentrate the mind wonderfully.

Hi, I'm at the Speedway at Eighty-sixth and Ditch, and I need an ambulance. The great love of my life has a malfunctioning G-tube.

There was a DJ who stayed up for eleven days straight, the longest recorded period of time anyone has ever gone without sleep, and he started playing nothing by Phil Collins, and that's how they knew it was time to call the ambulance.

Finally I went and found my hat and skewered it on my head with a four-inch hat pin. I wore the hat because I knew my mother never visited without one. The pin I thought would be a comfort in case of emergency.

the rocketmen ran for cover. The missiles

Desperate affairs require desperate measures.

A move to a different town or school gives us new places to explore, new people to meet; a lost pet means we have to organize a careful search; baby-sitting requires looking out for dangers a young child can't foresee; a car crash or fire demands that we get help immediately.

During my time at Essex county fire and rescue service, barely a shift went by without receiving a call from an elderly person who had fallen in their home, or from their concerned neighbour or carer.

I want the government to resign and an emergency government to be proclaimed, preferably made up of women. They can't do worse than men.

If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic.

People under siege turn to us in complete frustration and I get a chance to go in when it's do or die.