Emergencies Quotes - Page 8

• I said, I know why you’re afraid to fight with me.” "And why is that?” If he flexed again, I’d have to implement emergency measures. Maybe I could kick some sand at him or something. Hard to look hot brushing sand out of your eyes. "You want me.” Oh boy. "You can’t resist my subtle charm, so you’re afraid you’re going to make a spectacle out of yourself.” "You know what? Don’t talk to me.

  Ilona Andrews

  Eye, Fighting, Boys

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.198, Penguin

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• Finally I went and found my hat and skewered it on my head with a four-inch hat pin. I wore the hat because I knew my mother never visited without one. The pin I thought would be a comfort in case of emergency.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Mother, Comfort, Would Be

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• It was a lie but he believed in telling lies to people. Truth telling and medicine just didn't go together except in dire emergencies, if then.

  Mario Puzo

  Lying, Medicine, People

  Mario Puzo (2005). “The Godfather”, p.248, Penguin

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• The best way to meet a woman is in an emergency situation - if you're in a shipwreck, or you find yourself behind enemy lines, or in a flood.

  Mark Helprin

  Rainy Day, Finding Yourself, Enemy

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• My biggest concern is that America is drifting towards mediocrity and that people don't recognize - and by people I'm meaning Washington - don't recognize the sense of urgency and the fact that I don't think this is a crisis anymore. I think it's an emergency.

  Howard Schultz

  Thinking, America, People

  "Howard Schultz: 'We Can't Wait for Washington' and CEOs Need to Show Confidence in the Economy" by Lauren Effron, abcnews.go.com. September 7, 2011.

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• Look, if you have somebody who doesn't have health insurance, who doesn't have a doctor or dentist, and in order to deal with their cold or flu or dental problem, they go to an emergency room - in general, that visit will cost ten times more than walking into a community health center.

  Bernie Sanders

  Doctors, Order, Community

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I get so frustrated when people tell me it's unrealistic to create an eight-month emergency savings fund, or have money saved for a home down payment, or pay off their $5,000 credit card balance.

  Suze Orman

  Home, Eight, People

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• If the only way you can build an emergency fund is to pay the minimum due on your credit card, that is what you need to do.

  Suze Orman

  Needs, Cards, Credit

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• Your goal should be to pay off your credit card bills in full at the end of each month and set aside money toward your emergency savings.

  Suze Orman

  Goal, Each Month, Cards

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• Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Believe, Elderly, Ignorant

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• As you schedule individual tasks, give yourself a cushion. Mark the due date a few days ahead of the actual deadline so you have time to deal with changes or last-minute emergencies.

  Harvey Mackay

  Giving, Tasks, Schedules

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• I've been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning box, that He doesn't want to just be with you for an hour or two on Sunday morning and then put back in His box to sit there until you have an emergency, but He wants to invade your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

  Joyce Meyer

  God, Friday, Monday

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• Animals aren't any better equipped to survive an emergency than humans are. Few people missed the fact that after Hurricane Katrina, people died because buses and emergency shelters wouldn't allow their animals.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, People, Shelter

  "Pets Should Be Evacuated, Too" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2011.

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• If you are worried about job security and do not have an adequate emergency fund (ideally eight months' worth of living expenses stashed away in a federally insured bank or credit union), you need to focus more on saving money than paying down the balance on your credit cards.

  Suze Orman

  Jobs, Eight, Focus

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• Solitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than the emergency bonds of fear and anger.

  Henri Nouwen

  Profound, Solitude, Deeper

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “Clowning in Rome: Reflections on Solitude, Celibacy, Prayer, and Contemplation”, p.12, Image

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• Mobile notifications put people in a state of perpetual emergency interruption - similar to what 911 operators and air traffic controllers experienced back in the '70s and '80s.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Air, People, States

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• The president of the United States has claimed, on more than one occasion, to be in dialogue with God. If he said that he was talking to God through his hairdryer, this would precipitate a national emergency. I fail to see how the addition of a hairdryer makes the claim more ridiculous or offensive.

  Sam Harris

  Atheist, Talking, Religion

  "Letter to a Christian Nation". Book by Sam Harris, reason.com. January 8, 2008.

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• According to the most common interpretation of biblical prophecy, Jesus will return only after things have gone horribly awry. Imagine the consequences if any significant component of the U.S. government believed that the world was about to end and that its ending would be glorious. The fact that nearly half of the American population apparently believes this should be considered a moral and intellectual emergency.

  Sam Harris

  Jesus, Believe, Biblical

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• We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Use, Airmen

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

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• She wants to know if I love her, that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  I Hate You, Love Is, Batteries

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.130, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ... He had always rather liked emergencies. Other people's at any rate. They put your own problems into perspective. It was like being on a ferry. You didn't have to think about what you had to do or where you had to go for the next few hours. It was all laid out for you.

  Mark Haddon

  Thinking, People, Perspective

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• sometimes in life doing what we shouldn't do is the emergency

  Bryce Courtenay

  Sometimes, Sometimes In Life

  Bryce Courtenay (2011). “The Power of One”, p.124, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Girl, Baby, Teenage

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.3, A&C Black

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• If a hurricane strikes, we can blame the president for not being there; we can blame Congress and FEMA; we can blame the state governments; but in the end, it's the mayors and the local city governments that have to be prepared for emergencies and be prepared to act.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Government, Cities, President

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• Anyone that's involved in development has discovered that all the good work that's been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.

  Bono

  Done, Development, Good Work

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