Emergencies Quotes - Page 10

• I certainly think we have an emergency in media, and we gotta fix it.

  Phil Donahue

  Thinking, Media

  "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. March 24, 2005.

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• At (UNHCR's) headquarters, I met extraordinary people, men and women, especially from the emergency team, who shared with me their passion, their dedication and their commitment to this organisation and refugees. They told me about the daily difficulties they have to face and also the joy they felt when they managed to save a person whose life was threatened.

  Julien Clerc

  Team, Passion, Commitment

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• The mythology about the UN is absolutely breathtaking. People believe it costs a great deal of money to the United States. Completely untrue: it doesn't. The United States makes a net gain. People believe it's a world government, although the UN is a pathetically weak organization which improvises in emergencies to try to prevent the worst from happening.

  Brian Urquhart

  Money, Believe, World Government

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• Each generation has been an education for us in different ways. The first child-with-bloody-nose was rushed to the emergency room. The fifth child-with-bloody-nose was told to go to the yard immediately and stop bleeding on the carpet.

  Art Linkletter

  Funny, Children, Parenting

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• It takes an average of three hours after the first symptoms of a heart attack are recognized by the patient, before that patient arrives at an emergency room. Symptoms are often denied by the patient - particularly us men, because we are very brave.

  Robert Fischell

  Heart, Men, Average

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• It is unfair for our hospitals to bear a hugely disproportionate burden for mandated emergency health treatment for illegal aliens.

  Jon Kyl

  Bears, Healthcare, Aliens

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• In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.

  Abraham Verghese

  Comfort, Ears, Healthcare

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• Linde's Danger to Self is a warm, candid and appealing account of being an emergency room psychiatrist. Linde captures the non-conformist, hard-boiled style of the psychiatrists who work in this setting.

  Tanya Luhrmann

  Self, Style, Rooms

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• In Courtney Moreno's In Case of Emergency the working class save the world and themselves. A wonderful first book!

  Ali Liebegott

  Book, Class, World

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• The moment one abandons the idea that he was born to discover what is right and enforce it upon the rest of the world, he begins to feel an increasing disposition to let others alone and to refrain even from retaliation or resistance except in those emergencies which immediately and imperatively require it.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Ideas, World, Resistance

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1893). “Instead of a Book”, Ayer Company Pub

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• The counsel to have a year's supply of basic food, clothing, and commodities was given fifty years ago and has been repeated many times since. Every father and mother are the family's store keepers. They should store whatever their own family would like to have in the case of an emergency...store a year's supply...that might keep us form starving in case of emergency.

  James E. Faust

  Mother, Religious, Father

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• Every father and mother are the family's store keepers. They should store whatever their family would like to have in case of an emergency...(and) God will sustain us through our trials.

  James E. Faust

  Mother, Religious, Father

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• There is a portent of stormy weather ahead to which we had better give heed...No one knows when emergencies will strike...Set your houses in order. If you have paid your debts, if you have a reserve, even though it be small, then should storms howl about your head, you will have shelter for your wife and children and peace in your hearts. That's all I have to say about it, but I wish to say it with all the emphasis of which I am capable.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Religious, Children, Heart

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• When I go to the beauty parlor, I always use the emergency entrance. Sometimes I just go for an estimate.

  Phyllis Diller

  Beauty, Use, Sometimes

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• To watch a football game is to be in a prolonged neurotic doubt as to what you're seeing. It's more like an emergency happening at a distance than a game. I don't wonder the spectators take to drink.

  Jacques Barzun

  Football, Distance, Games

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• You should take a good look at all sides of an issue before making a decision. Put something away in case of an emergency. New neighbors will bring good cheer. A small problem may occur at home base, but you will solve it quickly and correctly. Don't offer smart advice unless you are really asked to comment.

  Vikas Swarup

  Cheer, Smart, Home

  Vikas Swarup (2008). “Q & A: A Novel”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• Once," Balinda begins softly, "when I was in the emergency room with my mother they brought in a murderer who had been shot and was dying, right there in front of us. I watched as the nurse touched his face and reassured him and I could not believe they were being so nice to him.""What happened?" Jill asked."My mother rose up, took my arm, gripped it as if she was a weight lifter and said, 'he was a beautiful baby once and his mother loved him'.

  Kris Radish

  Beautiful, Mother, Baby

  Kris Radish (2006). “Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral”, p.199, Bantam

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• To be patient in an emergency is a terrible trial.

  Wendell Berry

  Trials, Patient, Terrible

  "Confronting the Consequences of Runaway Capitalism". Interview with Bill Moyers, www.alternet.org. October 7, 2013.

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• Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.

  Annie Dillard

  Survival, Survivor, Kind

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.9, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• Arsenal have a goalkeeper emergency at the moment. I'll gladly step in.

  Jens Lehmann

  Goalkeepers, Steps, Moments

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• It was with the last revolution and the coming of INGSOC (Inglish/English Socialism) that the latest High learnt how to keep their position permanently - by cultivating ignorance among the other classes and by constantly surveying them through the Thought Police. Part of this strategy included the maintenance of a state of continual warfare, which Goldstein discussed in the third chapter. The three major powers were not fighting this perpetual war for victory; they were fighting to keep a state of emergency always present as the surest guarantee of authoritarianism.

  George Orwell

  War, Ignorance, Fighting

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• Many of us are equal to life's emergencies who cannot bear its day-after-dayness.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Life, Bears, Equal

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.69, BookBaby

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• A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival.

  Caitlin Moran

  Community, Library, Festivals

  Caitlin Moran (2012). “Moranthology”, p.211, Random House

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• Consistent with section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act, 50 U.S.C. 1622(d), I am continuing for 1 year the national emergency previously declared on September 14, 2001, in Proclamation 7463, with respect to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the continuing and immediate threat of further attacks on the United States. Because the terrorist threat continues, the national emergency declared on September 14, 2001, and the powers and authorities adopted to deal with that emergency must continue in effect beyond September 14, 2010.

  Barack Obama

  Years, September 11, President

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• It is fundamental that the great powers of Congress to conduct war and to regulate the Nation's foreign relations are subject to the constitutional requirements of due process. The imperative necessity for safeguarding these rights to procedural due process under the gravest of emergencies has existed throughout our constitutional history, for it is then, under the pressing exigencies of crisis, that there is the greatest temptation to dispense with fundamental constitutional guarantees which, it is feared, will inhibit governmental action.

  Arthur Goldberg

  War, Rights, Temptation

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