Quotes About Emergency

To be patient in an emergency is a terrible trial.

they had been summoned to Mexico for a family emergency and had been unable to return.

patient immediately, in case he might die later.

going past her on a gurney, surrounded

One of the things is that in times of severe disorder, you can't worry about the dead, only the living.

Shaking my head, unable to think clearly, I mouthed the same word over and over: "Fire! Fire! Fire!" I was still mouthing it when they lifted me onto a stretcher and carted me from the Hall.

Head Smashed In, may I help you?

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Was it a fire in the kitchen? No, a bomb in the basement.

I passed out on the fourteenth floor. The CPR was so erotic.

Irony has only emergency use. Carried over time, it is the voice of the trapped who have come to enjoy their cage.

I will be conveyed to an Emergency Room of some kind, where I will be detained as long as I do not respond to questions, and then, when I do respond to questions, I will be sedated; so it will be an inversion of standard travel, the ambulance and ER: I'll make the journey first, then depart.

08/14/1025h. Dessert Competitions. 08/14/1315h. Illinois State Fair Infirmary; then motel; then Springfield Memorial Medical Center Emergency Room for distention and possible rupture of transverse colon (false alarm); then motel; incapacitated till well after sunset; whole day a washout; incredibly embarrassing, unprofessional; indescribable. Delete entire day.

even the worst latex slip-and-slide off the steeply curved cerebrum's edge would mean a fall of only a few meters to the broad butylene platform, from which a venous-blue emergency ladder can be detached and lowered to extend down past the superior temporal gyrus and Pons and abducent to hook up with the polyurethane basilar-stem artery and allow a safe shimmy down to the good old oblongata just outside the rubberized meatus at ground zero.

It's not a rhetorical mode that wears well. As Hyde (whom I pretty obviously like) puts it, "Irony has only emergency use. Carried over time, it is the voice of the trapped who have come to enjoy their cage." 32 This is because irony, entertaining as it is, serves an almost exclusively negative function. It's critical

numinous aura)—which balcony means that even the worst latex slip-and-slide off the steeply curved cerebrum's edge would mean a fall of only a few meters to the broad butylene platform, from which a venous-blue emergency ladder can be detached and lowered to extend down past the superior temporal gyrus and Pons and abducent to hook up with the polyurethane basilar-stem artery and allow a safe shimmy down to the good old oblongata just outside the rubberized meatus at ground zero.

John's standard maneuver to ask someone to help him, especially in a moment of crisis

Tráigame un cirujano, tengo herido el cerebro.

The libido also made an early exit, as it does in most major illnesses—it is the superfluous need of a body in beleaguered emergency.

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.

but you haven't lived till you tried sitting in an emergency room holding a rodent at 2 a.m. next to a man with a sneezing parrot.

We've lulled ourselves into believing that in an emergency, someone else will always come along to rescue us. We've stopped relying on our own wonderfully adaptable bodies; we've forgotten that we can think, climb, leap, run, throw, swim, and fight with more versatility than any other creature on the planet.

The state of emergency is also always the state of emergence

For the Enemy is permanent. He is not in the emergency situation but in the normal state of affairs. He threatens in peace as much as in war (and perhaps more than in war); he is thus being built into the system as a cohesive power.