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Quotes About Emergency

In a shipwreck, it is every drowning man for himself.
~ Philippa Gregory
I'll phone the police
~ R.L. Stine
The second bathroom's downstairs - that's kind of the emergency backup bathroom when Shane's in there moussing his hair for like an hour or something.... Bite me! Shane yelled from behind the closed door.
~ Rachel Caine
With a cry of alarm, he bolted to the bathroom and made it with not a second to spare. He seemed to be on the throne long enough to have witnessed the rise and fall of an empire.
~ Dean Koontz
Remember the time Pamela stuffed a bead up her nose and we had to take her to the emergency room to get it out? That bead cost us a fortune.
~ Debbie Macomber
Norah, her younger sister, had managed to call her in Italy nearly a week ago about their father's heart attack. The connection had been bad and she'd had difficulty hearing, but Norah's sense of urgency had come clearly over the wire. Their father was gravely ill, and Steffie needed to hurry home—something that turned out to be much easier said than done.
~ Debbie Macomber
The U.S. government spends billions of dollars on disasters after they happen, but it pinches pennies when it comes to preparing for them.
~ Deborah Blum
Choking Hazards: What to avoid Every year, 10,000 kids under the age of 14 choke on something and end up in the emergency room. Seventy-five percent of those children are under three years of age. And sadly, some of those kids die. Want to know what the deadliest choking hazard is? Hot dogs. Other food choking hazards include grapes, peanuts, hard carrots, and hard candies.
~ Unknown
you do for shock? Hot liquids, blankets. Brandy.
~ Diana Gabaldon
was so tired, though, that mind and body had begun to separate. It was a familiar phenomenon. Doctors, soldiers, and mothers encounter it routinely; I had, any number of times. Unable to respond to an immediate emergency while clouded by fatigue, the mind simply withdraws a little, separating itself fastidiously from the body's overwhelming self-centered needs.
~ Diana Gabaldon
I gathered that the chamber pot was for use in inclement weather or other emergency, as normally the ladies' modesty required stops every hour or so, at which point the passengers would scatter into the roadside vegetation like a covey of quail, even those who did not require relief of bladder or bowels seeking some relief from the stench of Mr. Graham's asafoetida bag
~ Diana Gabaldon
I'm good in an emergency.
~ Carole Radziwill
In case of emergency, do whatever your best friends tell you to do!
~ Monique Coleman
The attorney general is the only one who can authorize what's called an emergency FISA.
~ Michael Hayden
If I'm out for a shoot, I provide someone else's number to my family for any emergency. Otherwise, I have a landline at home.
~ Saswata Chatterjee
Among the most common reasons why people come to an emergency room are bouts of heart failure or pneumonia. Sometimes they have a touch of both.
~ Scott Gottlieb
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
If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?
~ Imran Khan
Fires are dangerous so firemen must work as a team to put fires out.
~ Unknown
Emotional explosions are neural hijackings. At those moments, evidence suggests, a center in the limbic brain proclaims an emergency, recruiting the rest of the brain to its urgent agenda. The hijacking occurs in an instant, triggering this reaction crucial moments before the neocortex, the thinking brain, has had a chance to glimpse fully what is happening, let alone decide if it is a good idea.
~ Unknown
Be sure to include the design of experiences as well—buying a cup of coffee, taking a trip on an airplane, going to an emergency room.
~ Daniel H. Pink
There's only a couple times when fame is ever helpful. Sometimes you can get into a restaurant where the kitchen is just closing. Sometimes you can avoid a traffic violation. But the only time it really matters is in the emergency room with your kids. That's when you want to be noticed, because it's very easy to get forgotten in an ER.
~ Bill Murray
Patience, they say, is a virtue. Yet in times of emergency, the government needs to be able to make snap decisions and take bold, decisive action to protect the American people.
~ Jared Polis
The Ebola virus is unlike any health crisis we have ever experienced and needs a response unlike anything we have ever seen.
~ Paul Allen