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Quotes About Emergency

I figured it was probably best for me to leave that bicycle back there for a real emergency.
~ Suzanne Brockmann
If I feel ragged, my prep team seems in worse condition, knocking back coffee and sharing brightly colored little pills. As far as I can tell, they never get up before noon unless there's some sort of national emergency, like my leg hair.
~ Suzanne Collins
It was building up in his chest, that long guttural howl reserved for real emergencies — like when you ran into a saber-toothed tiger without your club, or your fire went out during the Ice Age.
~ Suzanne Collins
As far as I can tell, they never get up before noon unless there's some sort of national emergency, like my leg hair.
~ Suzanne Collins
Your goal should be to pay off your credit card bills in full at the end of each month and set aside money toward your emergency savings.
~ Suze Orman
Before you start to save one penny for a child's future college costs, I insist that you have the following financial priorities taken care of: You do not have credit card debt. You have an eight-month emergency savings fund. You have a term life insurance policy. You are saving for retirement; aiming to set aside 15% of your gross salary. Until all of that is in place you are not to think about saving for college.
~ Suze Orman
Many of you have heard me say this repeatedly over the years: There is financial aid for college. There are loans for college. But there is no aid or loans to help you in retirement. There is no aid if you run into a rough patch and you do not have sufficient funds in an emergency savings account to navigate your way out of trouble.
~ Suze Orman
A Roth can also be a backup emergency fund. Because your contributions are made with after-tax dollars, you are free to withdraw them (though not the earnings on them) at any age without incurring taxes or penalties.
~ Suze Orman
Go for Dr. Bowen as soon as you can. I think father is hurt.
~ Lizzie Andrew Borden
Sooner or later the space program will need to save us by detecting and deflecting an incoming asteroid.
~ Nathan Myhrvold
People - particularly in the Southeast, Georgia, my district, all across the state - they don't want the federal government to have the ability, at times whenever the federal government wants to declare an emergency, to start going around and confiscating people's guns.
~ Phil Gingrey
If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization.
~ Bill Nye
Houston, we've had a problem.
~ Jim Lovell
Think, not merely, but ACT the Think. For that is the only sure way to the educated Will. To act with decision, firmness, and promptness when an Emergency arrives is to feed nourishing food hourly to the Will. The weak Will is the starved Will.
~ Napoleon Hill
Any emergency which arouses the emotions, and causes the heart to beat more rapidly than normal may, and generally does, bring the sixth sense into action.
~ Napoleon Hill
Noteworthy is the fact that this 'other self' seldom exerts its influence or makes itself known excepting at times of unusual emergency, when men are forced, through adversity and temporary defeat
~ Napoleon Hill
As the fire made its way up Main Street with alarming rapidity, individual homeowners started bidding for the fire companies' services so as to protect their own houses. Instead of working together as a coordinated unit, the companies split off in different directions, allowing the blaze to build into an uncontrollable
~ Nathaniel Philbrick
Most people have two emergency modes. Fight and Flight. But Conner always knew he had three. Fight, Flight, and Screw Up Royally.
~ Neal Shusterman
Most people have two emergency modes. But Connor always knew he had three: Fight, Flight, and Screw Up Royally. It was a dangerous mental circuit.
~ Neal Shusterman
The telephone is needed for Emergency purposes only These people are not Emergencies, they are Calamities.
~ Charles Bukowski
I stared at the phone. Deathly damned thing. But you needed it to call 911. You never knew.
~ Charles Bukowski
vest-pocket apocalypse.
~ Charles C. Mann
That was when the sprint on vampirism had been proposed and unanimously actioned as an emergency spike.)
~ Charles Stross
You said a bad word!" Lyssa hammed it up, eyes wide and limpid, and cranked her tear ducts all the way from Flood Danger: Raise the Thames Barrier to Critical Emergency: Three Gorges Spillway Eroding.
~ Charles Stross