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Quotes About Emergency

I wanted to work out a trade with things that aren't alive but aren't dead either. I wanted to make an emergency exchange, trading my body for the horizon line above and the dusty roads on the earth below. I wanted to borrow their endurance, exist without my body, and when the worst was over, slip back into my body and reappear in my fufaika. This had nothing to do with dying, quite the opposite.
~ Herta Muller
If anything, which ought not to happen, happens in your neighborhood, neighbors come as they are to help; relatives dress first.
~ Hesiod
Not prayer nor Bible verse, nor scholarship nor wit, nor grant under seal nor statute law can alter the fact of villain blood. Not all his craft and guile can make him a Howard, or a Cheney, or a Fitzwilliam, a Stanley or even a Seymour: not even in an emergency.
~ Hilary Mantel
Muldoon referred to an invention that Menlo Parker was currently working on, designing a miniaturized portable radio-telephone which the Omega operatives could carry on their person at all times, and by which they could always get in touch with one another, and also tap into the public phone lines to contact the police, fire department, or ambulance. The invention was by no means yet perfected.
~ Unknown
Oh my god" Meg ranted. "Her water just broke!" Margaret" Eve said, "get a grip - and a towel. I'll be there in five minutes." (After her sister is off to the hospital and Meg comes close to hyperventalating) Shouldn't we have called an ambulance or something?" Meg fretted. Oh for heavens sakes," Eve replied. "You don't need an ambulance!" Not for me, Mother for Sierra.
~ Linda Lael Miller
I remember his face when my father said that he no longer had private health cover, how quickly he left the house, how he dropped his unctuous demeanor like a brick. He sent him straight to the hospital in an NHS ambulance and left without saying goodbye.
~ Lisa Jewell
She let a teasing tone enter her voice. 'Is there any emergency for which you are not prepared, Mr Swift?' 'Miss Bowman, if I had enough pockets I could save the world.
~ Lisa Kleypas
C-17s should be ready to go at various military bases around the world packed with water, food, medical supplies, sleeping bags and tents, all prepared to be air dropped in alongside soldiers and doctors to begin relief efforts.
~ Steven Van Zandt
It was the summer of 1968 or so, and Dad and my little brother were out camping. While up in the mountains, my brother was bitten by a rattlesnake. As they raced back to the base, my dad sucked out the venom and used his hands as a tourniquet and probably save his life, for it was a serious bite, and he was just a little kid.
~ Rick Tumlinson
I've probably saved thousands of peoples' lives with my educational message on snake bites, how to get in around venomous anything.
~ Steve Irwin
a man who discovers his pants are on fire tends to have very little time to worry about somebody else's box of matches.
~ Jeff Lindsay
it's always seemed to me that when you need a lawyer it's already too late.
~ Jeff Lindsay
And a man who discovers his pants are on fire tends to have very little time to worry about somebody else's box of matches.
~ Jeff Lindsay
Naturally, some of the passengers begin to panic. Several of them leap out into the dimly lit tunnel.
~ Jeffrey Archer
ambulance carrying Guzman's lifeless body sped
~ Jeffrey Archer
On the morning the last Lisbon daughter took her turn at suicide—it was Mary this time, and sleeping pills, like Therese—the two paramedics arrived at the house knowing exactly where the knife drawer was, and the gas oven, and the beam in the basement from which it was possible to tie a rope.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
It may without exaggeration be said today that we are having something of an excitement.' [New York Times Baltimore correspondent, reporting on Maryland's declaration of a state of emergency as Confederate troops threatened Baltimore and Washington, D.C.]
~ Jennifer Chiaverini
You've got to make time. It's important. You know how they tell you on planes, in case of an emergency, the adults should put their oxygen masks on first? You're not going to be any good to anyone if you're not taking care of yourself.
~ Jennifer Weiner
grabbing for the last loaf of bread or gallon of milk or four-pack of toilet paper, as if everyone's snow-day plans included French toast and diarrhea.
~ Jennifer Weiner
If the cash runs out, it's like a heart attack for you and your business. Keep that front and centre of your mind, and you will have financial security and not be struggling to pay the bills.
~ Theo Paphitis
If the building is on fire and the person decides to stay in there, I don't run in there and get him out. If you see them breaking the glass, if you see them struggling and trying to get out - that's my analogy of how I help out the guys in the league and the kids that really, really need help.
~ Cris Carter
When I was in the U.S., I was caught by the cops for speeding and charged a fine of 200 dollars. I didn't have so much money then - I was still a student - but I certainly didn't want to spend a night behind bars. I called a few of my friends frantically and they bailed me out of the situation.
~ Karthi
This is a Disaster. This isn't something somebody can control. We ain't stuck on stupid.
~ Russel Honore
George W. Bush is very popular in Sub-Saharan Africa. Why? Because of PEPFAR, the President's Emergency Program for AIDS Relief.
~ Hillary Clinton