Rescue Quotes - Page 6

• We've gotten involved in cat rescue we take them in and find homes for them. I've always loved cats. I saw how homeless cats were living out there. We take them in, put out flyers.

  Greg Ginn

  Home, Cat, Saws

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• The 'Rescue Me' gig was a unique opportunity to play a character - a misanthropic, angry guy - who was so contrary to how people think of me.

  Michael J. Fox

  Character, Unique, Opportunity

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• I don't like writing straight-up thrillers. I like writing about families hurled into crisis and danger - soccer moms and regular dads and husbands who might have to rescue their daughters or who are, say, hedge fund managers and have one foot on the sidelines watching their kids and the other in nefarious cover-ups and conspiracies.

  Andrew Gross

  Soccer, Mom, Daughter

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• God's love for us is constant and will not diminish, but he cannot rescue us from the painful results that are caused by wrong choices.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Love, Pain, Choices

  Marvin J. Ashton (1991). “The Measure of Our Hearts”, Shadow Mountain

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• One of the jewels in the crown of Labour's time in office was the rescue of the National Health Service. As the Commonwealth Fund, the London School of Economics and the Nuffield Foundation have all shown, health reforms as well as additional investment were essential to improved outcomes, especially for poorer patients.

  David Miliband

  School, Jewels, Office

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

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• No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

  Christopher Morley

  Dog, Appreciation, Silly

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• Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

  Jean Paul

  Men, Literature, Firsts

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• Usually redemption implies rescue - being saved. What were you being saved from?' he inquired, his voice carefully neutral. 'Ugliness.

  Amy Harmon

  Voice, Redemption, Saved

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• She refused to think of Neil, brave and quiet, whose reward for a heroic rescue was to be slowly devoured by strange cave balloons.

  Brandon Mull

  Thinking, Brave, Caves

  Brandon Mull, Brandon Dorman (2009). “Grip of the Shadow Plague”, p.260, Simon and Schuster

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• She gave him a wan smile. "And then you came, Eragon. You and Saphira. After hope had deserted me and I was about to be taken to Galbatorix in Uru'baen, a Rider appeared to rescue me. A rider and a dragon!" "And Morzan's son," he said. "Both of Morzan's sons." "Describe it how you will, it was such an improbable rescue, I occasionally think that I did go mad and that I've imagined everything since.

  Christopher Paolini

  Taken, Son, Thinking

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• Who but shall learn that freedom is the prize Man still is bound to rescue or maintain; That nature's God commands the slave to rise, And on the oppressor's head to break the chain. Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, Till not a slave shall on this earth by found.

  John Quincy Adams

  Men, Years, Justice

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• By all means," cried the bard, his eyes lighting up. "A Fflam to the rescue! Storm the castle! Carry it by assault! Batter down the gates!" "There's not much of it left to storm," said Eilonwy. "Oh?" said Fflewddur, with disappointment. "Very well, we shall do the best we can.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Disappointment, Mean, Eye

  Lloyd Alexander (2013). “The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.82, Macmillan

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• Donit kill her now, just when we've gone to all that trouble to rescue her," said Jeffrey.

  Jeanne Birdsall

  Gone, Trouble, Said

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• I've got a hangover." "No, you hit your head on the floor." "I can't stay. I've got to rescue that fool Sophie.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Hangover, Sophie, Fool

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• And these things that keep alive on departure know that you praise them; transient, they look to us, the most transient, to be their rescue. They want us to change them completely, in our invisible hearts, into -- O endlessly -- us! Whoever, finally, we may be.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Heart, Looks, Alive

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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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• We had lost the fight for the preservation of the white race until God himself intervened in earthly affairs with AIDS to rescue and preserve the white race that he had created.... I praise God all the time for AIDS.

  J. B. Stoner

  Fighting, Race, White

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• Eve: Anyway, thanks for riding to the rescue. You need a white hat. Good guys wear white, right? Roarke: I look better in black.

  Nora Roberts

  White, Guy, Black

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• You really do learn by example... Especially women, sometimes we think somebody's going to rescue us, or somebody's going to teach us how to do it, when in fact we have to understand that the biggest resource we have is inside of ourselves. I know that I can count on me to take care of me. That's a very important thing to know.

  Marlo Thomas

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

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• But suppose you struggle through to the good and find that it also is dreadful? How if food itself turns out to be the very thing you can't eat, and home the very place you can't live, and your very comforter the person who makes you uncomfortable? Then, indeed, there is no rescue possible: the last card has been played.

  C. S. Lewis

  Struggle, Home, Cards

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Perelandra”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• Now when Túrin learnt from Finduilas of what had passed, he was wrathful, and he said to Gwindor: 'In love I hold you for your rescue and sake-keeping. But now you have done ill to me, friend, to betray my right name, and call my doom upon me, from which I would lie hid.' But Gwindor answered: 'The doom lies in yourself, not in your name.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Lying, Names, Sake

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• For some reason my father saw no problem with us pplaying "barbie and ken go to hawaii to save their marriage by picking up another couple for sexy good times," but if barbie and ken had gone to hawaii to "rescue another couple from a crazed kidnapper," that would have been wrong.

  Michele Jaffe

  Sexy, Couple, Father

  Michele Jaffe (2006). “Bad Kitty”, p.40, Penguin UK

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• Trust is a fragile thing. Once earned, it affords us tremendous freedom. But once trust is lost, it can be impossible to recover. Of course the truth is, we never know who we can trust. Those we're closest to can betray us, and total strangers can come to our rescue. In the end, most people decide to trust only themselves. It really is the simplest way to keep from getting burned.

  Mary Alice

  Life, Happy, People

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• The story of Terisa and Geraden began very much like a fable. She was a princess in a high tower. He was a hero come to rescue her. She was the only daughter of wealth and power. He was the seventh son of the lord of the seventh Care. She was beautiful from the auburn hair that crowned her head to the tips of her white toes. He was handsome and courageous. She was held prisoner by enchantment. He was a fearless breaker of enchantments. As in all the fables, they were made for each other.

  Stephen R. Donaldson

  Beautiful, Daughter, Princess

  Stephen R. Donaldson (2013). “The Mirror of Her Dreams”, p.6, Del Rey

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• Both Mitt and I have summer places up in New Hampshire on Lake Winnipesaukee. And a few summers ago I was taking my grandchildren and children to town in the boat for ice cream ... And I realized there was nobody in the boat to help me dock the boat, handle the ropes, do anything ... And I looked up and there was Mitt Romney. So he pulled me in, he tied up the boat for me. He rescued me just as he's going to rescue this great country.

  J. W. "Bill" Marriott, Jr.

  Summer, Country, Children

  "Bill Marriott: Mitt Romney Will Rescue America’s Yacht ... From Indeterminate Peril, Apparently" by Jason Linkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 28, 2012.

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