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Quotes About Emergency

women visit emergency rooms for injuries caused by their husbands or boyfriends more often than for injuries from car accidents, robberies and rapes combined. Our
~ Gavin de Becker
YOUR DIVINE INVITATION You're invited to meet the Divine. Nobody can resist an invitation like that! Now, your choices narrow to two: You can come to the Divine ready to dance. Or Be carried on a stretcher to the Divine Emergency Room.
~ Gay Hendricks
Well, I guess that tells you not to call me in a crisis.
~ Gemma Halliday
While the redshirts battle to contain the raging engine fire that is threatening the entire ship, the bridge officers continue to cover their asses,
~ Gene Kim
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 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.
~ General Douglas MacArthur 1957
We're in a tight spot!
~ George Clooney
He wants to see you. He says it's an emergency. Hurry up before Mom shoots him.
~ Ilona Andrews
As he passed me, he leaned to Curran and handed him a paper fan folded from some sort of flyer. Curran looked at the fan. "What?" "An emergency precaution, Your Majesty. In case the lady faints." Curran just stared at him. Raphael strode toward the Pit, turned, flexed a bit, and winked at me. "Give me that," I told Curran. "I need to fan myself." "No, you don't.
~ Ilona Andrews
Desperation is a catalyst that forces us to act," Odalon said. "It summons the last reserves we possess in an effort to extricate us from danger.
~ Ilona Andrews
Irène suddenly taken today destination Pithiviers13 (Loiret)—hope you can intercede urgently—trying to telephone no success. Michel Epstein.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
You wash your hands, don't you? Bayley's eyes dropped to his hands. They were as clean as need be. Yes, he said. All right. I suppose it's a measure of instability to feel such revulsion at dirty hands as to be unable to clean an oily mechanism by hand even in a emergency. Still, in the ordinary course of living, the revulsion keeps you clean, which is good.
~ Isaac Asimov
At the time, I was living pretty close to Ground Zero. I had to grab some necessary equipment, put it in my backpack, and flee the immediate proximity on my bike.
~ Mike D
I don't worry about a zombie apocalypse. Mainly because it's unlikely, but also because I think I'd be pretty good in that type of emergency.
~ Sarah Millican
The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.
~ Jane Bryant Quinn
I lay on the ground, but then I can't reach - I don't want to take my foot out of the tub - but I've got to call somebody because I've got to get a band-aid or something to stop the bleeding.
~ Danny DeVito
When the mask comes down when the plane's in turbulence, you've gotta put it on yourself first or you're not going to be able to do much good, even for the kid screaming next to you.
~ Brendan Hunt
The doctor told Phil, my then husband, that my condition was really bad news. They had found an artery tearing and said I could die. They said they could try to patch it up but it could go horribly wrong. It all turned out okay in the end but it was touch and go.
~ Sharon Stone
There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too.
~ Anna Quindlen
Um, guys, I hate to interrupt whatever weirdness you two are partaking in, but we have a situation in here you might want to check on. (Phobos)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Kids don't seem to recognize when they're hungry until they're starving and in the emergency zone, so I'm like, "Who wants some apple slices and cheese?"
~ Julie Bowen
I can either eat the expired turkey meat in the fridge, hoping it will cause me illness so great that no one can deny my need to visit the emergency room, or at the very least, stay home in bed.
~ Susan Lee
Today, we save lives.
~ Susan May Warren
They formed a human chain, passing the books hand over hand from one person to the next, through the smoky building and out the door. It was as if, in this urgent moment, the people of Los Angeles formed a living library. They created, for that short time, a system to protect and pass along shared knowledge, to save what we know for each other, which is what libraries do every day.
~ Susan Orlean
During the last few hours of the trip, he and Tess had drilled procedures and done a whole lot of worst-case-scenario type war-gaming. He was now as convinced as he'd ever be that she knew what to do and where to go if Godzilla attacked Kazabek...
~ Suzanne Brockmann