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Quotes About Emergency

Psychiatry in this place is like serving an in-flight meal in the middle of a plane crash. If I wanted to make you well, as a doctor, I should be giving you a parachute, not a cheese-and-pickle sandwich.
~ Chris Cleave
Tonight sometime the full reality will dawn on him, but he's like me: the guy you want at the site where the plane went down.
~ Chris Crutcher
You know what a platonic friend is to a woman? It's like a dick in a glass case. In case of emergency break open glass.
~ Chris Rock
Songbird, rebirth, unearth creature / Submerge from hurt, pain, broken pieces / Emergency, heartbeat increases / Rise up lotus, rise, this is the beginning.
~ Christina Aguilera
circunstancias desesperadas exigen medidas desesperadas.
~ Christine Dodd
It's only really appropriate in the event of a life-threatening emergency, "I love you." It means a different thing to us than it means to them. God knows what it means to them. God knows what it means to us.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
So long as strategic nuclear weapons were the principal element of Europe's defense, the objective of European policy was primarily psychological: to oblige the United States to treat Europe as an extension of itself in case of an emergency.
~ Henry Kissinger
He was transferred on a Friday afternoon – never a good time to fall seriously ill
~ Henry Marsh
The train's conductor, J. F. Gamble, flung himself into the cab, his uniform soaked and dripping, to report the worst: one of the hundred-ton boxcars at the rear of the train had been toppled by the wind and waves, automatically locking the air brakes on the entire chain.
~ Les Standiford
The epidemic of violence against sex workers would be a national emergency if any other group were involved; but sex workers, particularly those who are working on the street and may have addictions or be radicalized, have not been the object of any great concern.
~ Leslie Ann Jeffrey
In case of Ragnarok break glass and play an E flat. Where's
~ Lev Grossman
FEMA I always thought was a bone here in your ass.
~ Lewis Niles Black
And they will tell you unequivocally that if we have a chemical or biological attack or a nuclear attack anywhere in this country, they are unprepared to deal with it today, and that is of high urgency.
~ Warren Rudman
My biggest concern is that America is drifting towards mediocrity and that people don't recognize - and by people I'm meaning Washington - don't recognize the sense of urgency and the fact that I don't think this is a crisis anymore. I think it's an emergency.
~ Howard Schultz
Spotting sepsis is one of the most difficult things to do early and the urgency is critical to whether people survive.
~ Matt Hancock
The tragic nuclear accident at Fukushima underscored the urgent need to enhance nuclear safety and the international emergency response framework. I commend the International Atomic Energy Agency for its work.
~ Ban Ki-moon
What the world needs is an Emergency Boss. An Emergency Czar. An Emergency Commander. A true Master Of Disaster. One person completely responsible for the anticipation, immediate reconnaissance, and urgent execution of rescue and relief efforts around the world.
~ Steven Van Zandt
NSS strongly supports the usage of space to provide benefits to people living on the Earth. The Iridium satellites enable first responders to communicate rapidly during an emergency anywhere in the world.
~ Bruce Pittman
No one should have to choose between medicine and other necessities. No one should have to use the emergency room every time a child gets sick. And no one should have to live in constant fear that a medical problem will become a financial crisis.
~ Brad Henry
A large-scale crisis - whether a terrorist attack or a financial crash - would likely provide the pretext to declare some sort of state of exception or emergency, where the usual rules no longer apply.
~ Naomi Klein
After Hurricane Sandy, we saw the hellish world that the gun prohibitionists see as their utopia. Looters ran wild in south Brooklyn. There was no food, water or electricity. And if you wanted to walk several miles to get supplies, you better get back before dark, or you might not get home at all.
~ Wayne LaPierre
In an era when information can be sent instantaneously anywhere, it is utterly nonsensical that our Nation's police, the fire, and EMS personnel cannot consistently communicate with each other.
~ Bill Pascrell
It shouldn't take an emergency for this Administration to deal with the health care needs of our nation's heroes. Funding the VA and our bringing our troops home safely should never be treated as an afterthought.
~ John Salazar
In global health, emergency vaccine stockpiles are like the insurance policy you never really wanted to take out: you resent the cost and have mixed feelings about never making a claim. Moreover, given that a stockpile is often a last resort, if you ever fall back on it, you have, in some way, already failed.
~ Seth Berkley