Rescue Quotes - Page 6

• In my experience flying search-and-rescue missions, the greatest single variable contributing to successful rescues was the preparedness and expertise of the person(s) in distress.

  Tom Gross

  Successful, Safety, Flying

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• I'm the computer operator for Operation Rescue National.

  Norma McCorvey

  Computer, Operations, Operators

  "An Interview with Norma McCorvey, the 'Roe' of Roe vs. Wade". Interview with Fr. Frank Pavone, www.priestsforlife.org. January 1, 1997.

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• To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age, however, no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad.

  Eric Alterman

  Cities, Age, United States

  "Out of Print". www.newyorker.com. March 31, 2008.

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• I looked at a fetal development chart at the Operation Rescue Office in Dallas. I had a lot of emotions stirring up inside of me. That's when I decided that it was wrong in any stage of pregnancy.

  Norma McCorvey

  Pregnancy, Office, Dallas

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• We remember the heroes who ran into the burning buildings to rescue those trapped inside, and the dauntless passengers on Flight 93 who laid down their lives to save others, including almost certainly those of us in the U.S. Capitol.

  Todd Tiahrt

  Hero, Burning, Remember

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• We created a line of pet food called Nutrish that's made to human standards, and 100 percent of the proceeds go to animal rescue. One of our top-tier donors is the ASPCA, and they help us challenge animal shelters all across the country to get more animals placed in homes.

  Rachael Ray

  Country, Home, Animal

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• The movie says, You can lose your job and your way and still rescue yourself. 'Larry Crowne' creates a self-excavated utopia, and I love that idea, that message.

  Julia Roberts

  Movie, Jobs, Self

  Interview with Lynn Hirschberg, www.wmagazine.com. June 1, 2011.

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• Alexis Coe rescues a buried but extraordinarily telling episode from the 1890s that resonates in all sorts of ways with today. That in itself would be an accomplishment. But this is a book that is truly riveting, a narrative that gallops. Lizzy Borden eat your heart out. Here’s a real crime of passion. Or was it? I dare you to pick this one up and try, just try to put it down.

  Peter Orner

  Real, Book, Passion

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• We are too much haunted by ourselves, projecting the central shadow of self on everything around us. And then comes the Gospel to rescue us from this selfishness. Redemption is this, to forget self in God.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Self, Shadow, Redemption

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• I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming.

  Linda Evans

  Men, Charming, Myth

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• The attack on youth is a national pathology, unwarranted by fact, smokescreen for the failure of adulthood and its leadership to confront larger predicaments. No rescue by the monied, governing, institutional, or otherwise privileged is in sight. It's up to the energy and inventiveness of the younger generation to pull the gated minds of millennium America toward acceptance of diversity, community, and fairness, and I hope they have as much fun as I did in my adolescences achieving what we Sixties kids only imagined.

  Mike A. Males

  Fun, Kids, Acceptance

  Mike A. Males (1999). “Framing youth: ten myths about the next generation”, Common Courage Pr

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• Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this because of all the time they spend on personal grooming. Dogs aren't like this. dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll in a dead fish.

  James P. Gorman

  Dog, Cat, Ideas

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• If feeling anxious about anything Dr Bachs night time rescue remedy is great. Sometimes a bath before bed helps. Burning Lavender or Clary Sage in the room before retiring. Try not to work on my computer very late and then bed straight after. Getting enough exercise definitely helps sleep.

  Rachel Ryan

  Sleep, Exercise, Night

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• I love being a woman. You can cry. You get to wear pants now. If you're on a boat and it's going to sink, you get to go on the rescue boat first. You get to wear cute clothes. It must be a great thing, or so many men wouldn't be wanting to do it.

  Gilda Radner

  Cute, Women, Love Is

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• At the heart of it all, Passion exists to see a generation stake their lives on what matters most. For us, that's the fame of the One who rescues and restores, and the privilege we have to fully leverage our lives by amplifying His name in everything we do.

  Louie Giglio

  Passion, Heart, What Matters

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• In that long sequence, when Lawrence enters in the desert to rescue a lost man, Lean listened the music I wrote and wanted to extend the scene to let my work stay completely.

  Maurice Jarre

  Stay Strong, Men, Long

  "Maurice Jarre" by Patrick O'Connor, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2009.

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• There is a real connection between culture and climate change. We all have a part to play and if you engage with life, you will get a new set of values, get off the consumer treadmill, and start to think, and it is these great thinkers who will rescue the planet.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Real, Thinking, Play

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• Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?

  William Golding

  Hunting, Law, Piggy

  William Golding (1954). “Lord of the Flies”, p.255, Penguin

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• If we end up creating a gameplay structure where it makes sense for, whether it's a female to go rescue a male or a gay man to rescue a lesbian woman or a lesbian woman to rescue a gay man, we might take that approach.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Gay, Men, Creating

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• Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said that he could call down angels at any moment on a rescue mission, but chose not to - because of us. At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.

  Philip Yancey

  Lonely, Angel, Justice

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Grace Notes”, p.111, Harper Collins

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• Christians, hasten to help your brothers in the East, for they are being attacked. Arm for the rescue of Jerusalem under your captain Christ. Wear his cross as your badge. If you are killed your sins will be pardoned.

  Pope Urban II

  Christian, Brother, Arms

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• This will be a great day in our history; the date of a New Revolution - quite as much needed as the old one. Even now as I write they are leading old John Brown to execution in Virginia for attempting to rescue slaves! This is sowing the wind to reap the whirlwind which will come soon!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  War, Writing, Virginia

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.2428, Delphi Classics

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• A Rescuer isn't always a person. Addictions to alcohol or drugs, sexual addiction, workaholism-all the ways we numb out-can rescue the Victim from feeling his or her own feelings.

  David Emerald Womeldorff

  Addiction, Alcohol, Drug

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• So after a long time of utilizing the American propaganda machine, along with official statements of lies, distortion and falsehood, the focus was basically turned on inciting the American public against Iraq and pushing them to accept the American administration's schemes of aggression as a fait accompli, as if it were the solution or the necessary rescue that would allow American citizens to live in security and stability, after what they had gone through in the September 11 attacks.

  Naji Sabri

  Lying, Iraq, Long

  "Saddam's letter to U.N. says U.S. wants oil". www.cnn.com. September 20, 2002.

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• Thus, only in a hopeful and confident temper, in a proud and constructive spirit, will we rescue the present and safeguard the future of our beloved country.

  Bainbridge Colby

  Country, Hopeful, Proud

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