Quotes About Emergencies

Why would you need a ship, Max? You're thinking of leaving already? No, no, Max said. This would be just for fun. Or emergencies. Carol's face had darkened and his eyes had gone small. His expression scattered Max's brain so much he started babbling: It'll have a trampoline. And a big aquarium. An aquarium under the water, inside the ship, where we keep the fish and squids and stuff we like...

Every school should have well-rehearsed emergency response protocols covering a variety of possible scenarios, from fire to armed intruders. Schools should have good lines of communications with local emergency response officials and practice those relationships in drills and special exercises.

Since 1963, the University of Delaware's Disaster Research Center has conducted nearly 700 field studies on floods and earthquakes, and on-site research reveals the same results every time: the vast majority of people stay calm and help each other.

The basic conflict between men and women, sexually, is that men are like firemen. To men, sex is an emergency, and no matter what we're doing we can be ready in two minutes. Women, on the other hand, are like fire. They're very exciting, but the conditions have to be exactly right for it to occur.

Car horns, shrill and prolonged, blared one after another. Flashing sirens heralded endless emergencies, and a fleet of buses rumbled past, their doors opening and closing with a powerful hiss, throughout the night. The noise was constantly distracting, at times suffocating.

Watch out for emergencies. They are your big chance.

Life-changing experiences have occurred during contemplation, recovery from addiction, during worship, in extreme emergencies, and under the duress of combat.

Safe driving depends on good habits and instincts, since you don't have time to think in emergencies. That's why life is so dangerous on the left side of the road: the habits you've nurtured for as long as you've been driving are suddenly wrong. A simple right turn could be murder.

85% of all video we watch is pre-recorded, so you can set your system to download it all the time. You're still going to need live television for certain things - like news, sporting events and emergencies - but increasingly it is going to be almost like the iPod, where you download content to look at later.

Aside from true emergencies, most health care decisions are shoppable.

Telephones ringing at night are important.

Fear, poverty, alcoholism, loneliness are terminal illnesses. Emergencies, in fact.

I loathed having to screw myself up to emergencies late in the day. Such things should take place in the early morning. It was like going over the top in France; I didn't mind it so much when it happened during a drizzling dawn, when one was anyhow depressed and only half-awake, but I abominated an attack in the cold-blooded daylight, or in the dusk when one wanted to relax.

The great thing about baseball is that there's a crisis every day.

my experience taught me that most emergencies are nothing of the kind, and you can figure that out if you take time to catch your breath.

Don't surprise your boss. It's no fun bringing your boss bad news. However, most bosses consider it a far greater sin not to report emerging problems early enough.

True character stands the test of emergencies. Do not be mistaken, it is weakness from which the awakening is rude.