Emergencies Quotes - Page 18

• Keeping even the most humble talent wrapped in a napkin becomes the more reprehensible the greater the emergency.

  Margaret Mead

  Humble, Napkins, Talent

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• Self-censorship, the most important and most successful form of censorship, is rampant. Debate is identified with dissent, which is in turn identified with disloyalty. There is a widespread feeling that, in this new, open-ended emergency, we may not be able to 'afford' our traditional freedoms.

  Susan Sontag

  Successful, Self, Feelings

  Susan Sontag (2007). “At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches”, p.152, Macmillan

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• Cash - in savings accounts, short-term CDs or money market deposits - is great for an emergency fund. But to fulfill a long-term investment goal like funding your retirement, consider buying stocks. The more distant your financial target, the longer inflation will gnaw at the purchasing power of your money.

  Suze Orman

  Retirement, Cds, Goal

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• Its hard in the firehouse to avoid the dessert thing. At 3 in the morning after some emergency, I have been known to eat an ice cream sandwich.

  Caroline Paul

  Morning, Ice Cream, Sandwiches

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• Small faults and virtues are for daily life. The big ones are for emergencies.

  Mason Cooley

  Character, Faults, Daily Life

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• We should have an army so organized and so officered as to be capable in time of emergency, in cooperation with the National Militia, and under the provision of a proper national volunteer law, rapidly to expand into a force sufficient to resist all probable invasion from abroad and to furnish a respectable expeditionary force if necessary in the maintenance of our traditional American policy which bears the name of President Monroe.

  William Howard Taft

  Army, Should Have, Law

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• In this country, you never pull the emergency brake, even when there is an emergency. It is imperative that the trains run on schedule.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Running, Country, Schedules

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• ... business training in early life should not be regarded solely as insurance against destitution in the case of an emergency. For from business experience women can gain, too, knowledge of the world and of human beings, which should be of immeasurable value to their marriage careers. Self-discipline, co-operation, adaptability, efficiency, economic management,--if she learns these in her business life she is liable for many less heartbreaks and disappointments in her married life.

  Hortense Odlum

  Marriage, Disappointment, Business

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• Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of EMERGENCY.

  Herbert Hoover

  Horse, Tyrants, Revolution

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “Memoirs: The great depression, 1929-1941”

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• ISS leak is just like on a ship, there are bulkheads that, if there's an emergency, can separate an area that's no longer airtight from the undamaged portion of the station. The former Russian space station Mir actually did once develop a leak, after colliding with an unmanned cargo ship. Everyone survived.

  Ulrich Walter

  Space, Ships, Leaks

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• You saw on your TV what happened in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. The Reserves or National Guard are usually the people we use for those national emergencies. They weren't here, they were over in Iraq, and so we were less protected.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  New Orleans, Iraq, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If I'm writing a novel, I'll probably get up in the morning, do email, perhaps blog, deal with emergencies, and then be off novel-writing around 1.00pm and stop around 6.00pm. And I'll be writing in longhand, a safe distance from my computer. If I'm not writing a novel, there is no schedule, and scripts and introductions and whatnot can find themselves being written at any time and on anything.

  Neil Gaiman

  Morning, Distance, Writing

  "Interview with Neil Gaiman". Writers and Artists Interview, www.writersandartists.co.uk.

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• I made $3,000 opening for the Neville Brothers, and they paid me in cash. That was a bad situation, because I bought ridiculous stuff. I bought a snake bite emergency kit. Then I said to my friends, "Don't even worry about snakes anymore". My friend stepped on a worm, and I said, "Lay down!"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Brother, Humor

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• I'm always on the road, and I drive rental cars. Sometimes I don't know what's going on with the car, and I'll drive for ten miles with the emergency brake on. That doesn't say a lot for me, but it doesn't say a lot for the emergency brake. What kind of emergency is this? I need to not stop now. It's not really an emergency brake, it's an emergency make-the-car-smell-funny lever.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Smell

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• Fear and worry are emotions that cloud the mind from being able to think clearly, to remember what the procedures are to deal with that emergency.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Thinking, Clouds, Worry

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• Clint Eastwood enables and allows things to happen. You walk on some sets and it's like walking into an emergency room. It's like, "Come on guys, we're just making a movie here." That tension runs into the performances and into the movie.

  Matt Damon

  Running, Guy, Rooms

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• For day-to-day beauty, I'm a Q-tip and Vaseline kind of girl. I never leave home without Q-tips - they're a great fix for any makeup emergencies.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Girl, Home, Makeup

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• Doctors keep their scalpels and other instruments handy, for emergencies. Keep your philosophy ready too - ready to understand heaven and earth. In everything you do, even the smallest thing, remember the chain that links them. Nothing earthly succeeds by ignoring heaven, nothing heavenly by ignoring earth.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Philosophy, Doctors, Heaven

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.33, Modern Library

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• From a policymaker's point of view, [the back door] must look like a perfect solution. "We'll hold onto a separate copy of the keys, and we'll try to keep them really, really safe so that only in an emergency and if it's authorized by a court will we bring out those keys and use them." And, from a policy point of view, when you describe it that way, who could be against that?

  Matt Blaze

  Keys, Doors, Views

  Source: www.politico.com

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• No one is ever better off with dictators but there comes a time you know, when you're on an airplane, they always say, "in case of an emergency oxygen masks will drop down. Put yours on first and then administer help to your neighbor." We need oxygen right now.

  Benjamin Carson

  Airplane, Oxygen, Needs

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• God doesn't need to have emergency meetings. He's never gathered the Trinity and asked 'What happened there'.

  Matt Chandler

  Needs, Trinity, Meetings

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• I tend to worry about each "emergency" or unforeseen complication on all my projects. But there are so many! All of life is unforeseen! So I am learning that is the cycle of life - everything is cyclical and temporary and to get ok with that someday could be my greatest achievement.

  Kristin Bauer van Straten

  Cycle Of Life, Worry, Achievement

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• Save what you can toward the emergency and life happens fund. But don't worry yourself sick at the slow growth. The point is it's growing even it's just one dollar at at time.

  Michelle Singletary

  Sick, Worry, Growth

  "Color of Money Live". Live chat, live.washingtonpost.com. March 10, 2016.

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• If you do not have at least an eight-month emergency fund, and you think there's a probability you could loose your job - and it's not just losing your job; you could be in a car accident, get sick - continue to pay the minimum on your credit card every month. Everything beyond that needs to go to establish an emergency fund. And if you have an emergency fund saved, then fund your retirement account before paying down credit card debt.

  Suze Orman

  Retirement, Jobs, Thinking

  "Debt vs. debt: Which loans do I pay off first?". "Today" Interview, www.today.com. May 6, 2009.

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• There's no benefit to saying that you're a feminist. But you do kind of get a nice patriarchal pat on the head if you say, oh, I'm not like that, like I'm not one of those crazy feminists, which is something that happens a lot, where young women or young men will express some sort of feminist ideal, will say, you know, I think it's crap that Wal-Mart won't give out emergency contraception, but I'm not one of those crazy feminists.

  Jessica Valenti

  Crazy, Nice, Men

  Source: bigthink.com

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